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Hold your goals loosely pursue them fiercely then most outcomes reward you

@soontechnology @dagsen @sagar_batchu lolol

In our latest video, @dagsen scours the great city of San Francisco looking for its most confusing AI billboard. Then he gives the winner a trophy. 00:26 The rules 00:48 Telnux 01:12 The tier breakdown 01:34 Lambda, Slash, Omneky 02:15 Asking the public 02:46 Framer 03:09 Campfire 03:43 Atlassian Rovo, ChatGPT, and Codex 04:30 Asking the public about Vercel’s billboard 05:07 SF’s gold rush history and Google Gemini 05:42 Replit 06:03 Airwallex 06:22 Vanta 06:37 Apollo 07:08 Corgi 07:31 Stripe 07:58 Speakeasy 08:24 Mercury 08:40 Deel 08:57 Asking the public about Graphite 10:18 Outset.ai 10:37 Awarding our Most Confusing trophy

@nikhilville @NotionHQ Congrats!!!

Some personal news: I’ve joined @NotionHQ as a storyteller through their media fellowship where I’ll be working on the social team to highlight the technical developments happening behind your favorite features. From challenges to product decisions, I’m excited to amplify the moments that make Notion such a malleable product for teams. I’ve admired Notion’s product design sense for many years now but when I started using personal agents within my work, I realized that there was a huge opportunity to help teams find the context that matters most and collaborate in real time. Personal agents that can help you build, custom agents that can thoughtfully reason, along with a new set of tools released this week that make Notion even more extensible. Huge thank you to @alexhaobao who has been an incredible mentor and friend in my journey, and I’m excited to continue cooking with the team @ASalyers3 @jamesjacoby_ @ishverduzco :)

Alternative title for this: 2016 is so back

When we launched @drivekyte in LA in 2020, the first job was finding a lot for 20 rental cars. Every lot needed a portable office trailer, specific size, specific placement, all to be compliant with city and state regs. It took weeks to find, only to learn the door was on the wrong side due to some office code violation. Comical problem, but that was marketplace expansion. Now imagine the trailer is a compliance program and the parking code is a state healthcare AI law. Wrote about why the launch manager archetype is back

If you enjoy the Mill Valley pubic library, go to the UC Berkeley music library and thank me later One of the loveliest places to sit down and lock in amidst the trees

@snirkodesh @PetualAI @a16z @firstround @CowboyVC @eladgil $20 feels like a lot but congrats!

Today, I’m excited to share that @PetualAI has raised $20 to move audit from process-heavy work to judgment. Our raise includes a $17 round led by @a16z (a16z) and a $3.2M round led by @firstround , with participation from @CowboyVC , @eladgil , the founders of Lyft, Opendoor, and more. SOX compliance and internal audit are among the most manual, resource-intensive processes in any public company. Auditors wade through hundreds of support files per control test. PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, screenshots, and more. Just to determine whether a control operated correctly. Tens of millions of hours and $8 BILLION are spent on this every year. We knew this had to change. That teams deserved to apply more of their judgment and manage risk, rather than get buried in the mechanical. That's why we built Petual. Petual brings agentic AI to SOX testing and internal audit, autonomously gathering evidence and generating auditor-ready work papers in minutes instead of hours. Our customers -- S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 companies spanning energy, infrastructure, SaaS, manufacturing, financial services, and more -- can see 68–80% efficiency gains on SOX workflows. Huge thanks to our investors, early customers like @Navan and @PoweredByEos , and the many other customers who’ve been part of this journey; and of course, our incredible team. If you're in audit or compliance and want to see Petual in action, let’s talk.

Pen to the paper for the first time in over a year. More coming soon!

@rak_garg Try Passerine

Is it just me or are all of the upscale Indian places in NYC beyond mid. I’ve now been to Ambassador’s, Bungalow, Junoon, Musaafer, Gupshup. Each more disappointing than the last.

hosting another "ladies in tech" wine tasting in a couple weeks for women founders + operators in the bay area - dm if you'd like to attend or if you know someone who would be interested🍷

@nicbstme Congrats!!

Somehow, it always clicks together on a Friday at 3pm

someone is gonna launch the file system company of san francisco

@SherryYanJiang @ElevenLabs + kastle ai (does the same thing supposedly)

@SherryYanJiang @ElevenLabs Veritus (agents for consumer lending)

who are some of the coolest guys building voice agents right now?? besides your obvious ones like @ElevenLabs

@zachglabman @ycombinator Sounds like you're up to great american dynamism

Some personal news Excited to share I joined @ycombinator’s recent batch to build ai agents for selling ai agents to factories. Instead of building for manufacturers, why not build ai tools for the guys who are trying to sell them ai tools? our b2b2b2b SaaS model is already generating 500m ARR. Picks and shovels 🙏

@itsjessyin Excited to see your next big thing!!!

@yrechtman A1 header image selection

I know its "another tuesday" guys, but what(!) is happening in security right now

VCs in NYC are actually kind of great. early take, but the ones I’ve met are deeply immersed in what they invest in, not just vibe coding what might be a cool tool.