Brent J. Smith

Applications for Keel Cohort 3.0 are now open! Keel is the NYC accelerator. We believe that young people consistently build extraordinary companies, are inadequately served by today's accelerator market, and have no home east of San Francisco. Keel Cohort 3.0 is: 🏙️ Hosted in NYC. Summer 2026. 12 weeks in-person at our NYC office. 🦄 12 teams. Campus + recent-grad AI founders. 🚀 $150K checks. Credits and resources. Founder friendly terms. We’re building the home for young NYC founders. Read more about what we’re building, and apply to Keel Cohort 3.0 at the link below: keel.club/cohort?tw=1

@PavanKumarNY SF?

@brentsmith1024 Love this! What if I am on the other side?

Applications for Keel Cohort 3.0 are now open! Keel is the NYC accelerator. We believe that young people consistently build extraordinary companies, are inadequately served by today's accelerator market, and have no home east of San Francisco. Keel Cohort 3.0 is: 🏙️ Hosted in NYC. Summer 2026. 12 weeks in-person at our NYC office. 🦄 12 teams. Campus + recent-grad AI founders. 🚀 $150K checks. Credits and resources. Founder friendly terms. We’re building the home for young NYC founders. Read more about what we’re building, and apply to Keel Cohort 3.0 at the link below: keel.club/cohort?tw=1

@dishitarocks It’s for people who want to be in NYC, not only people who are already here

@brentsmith1024 Is this only for people in NYC?

@nathanleexyz appreciate you🫶

brent is the goat. only up from here

@ycombinator @aidan__pratt LFG @aidan__pratt

Autostep uncovers repetitive tasks ready for AI. Then builds or finds the agents to solve them. Your team repeats the same work hundreds of times a week. No one notices. Autostep does. Congrats on the launch, @aidan__pratt! ycombinator.com/launches/PYq-a…

@adilmania this is sick

introducing Silicon Mania Night Show. the first tech late-night show, live every Saturday on X, YouTube & Twitch. tech got boring. time to make it fun again :)

@JoshBobrowsky @benln 👀

@benln Why are there none in NYC

Which accelerators should every pre-seed founder consider first these days?

@JakeZegil love it

acquired (x1) now we continue building founder paradise in nyc and then do it again

@maxmarchione you’re in a bubble lol

it’s easier for a 20 year old kid now to raise 2 million dollars than to get a job

@nathanleexyz company value #4 @given_matthew

next big infra company will be pursuing:

@benjaminprinter yes please!

Just put together a full guide on how to build a 7-figure/year B2B offer (even if you’ve got no case studies) Broke down the structure, positioning, and a few offer angles that print in capital-rich markets nobody’s targeting Who wants the doc ?

@nathanleexyz @flowersslop welcome to the club

@brentsmith1024 @flowersslop i call it chat, brent j. smith

Even the girliest girls girl I know calls it ChatGPT, my siblings friend who is basically a drug dealer calls it ChatGPT, my best friends 16 years old sister calls it ChatGPT, as well as my 60 years old mother. People might say ChatGBT or ChatGTP, but not a single soul says Chat

@nathanleexyz dropping out is overrated

i am actively staying in school for a semester more than i need to to get a philosophy minor dropping out is overrated. learn about how the world works before trying to change it

@nvonbodungen enjoy school brother it’s some of the best times of your life

doomscrolling ai slop is not the future

Thanks to @MadLightProds for the hype video, and to all the 2.0 teams for killing Demo Day. More to come👀

Keel 2.0

@benji_stern congrats!

Introducing Stratus Ventures, an early-stage venture firm investing in exceptional pre-seed and seed companies. Stratus Fund I is a $10M fund investing in visionary founders building the future. Founders who are scrappy operators and relentless about their craft. A huge thank you to my LPs for their belief and support of the Stratus mission, my founders for their trust and partnership, and to my colleagues, mentors, friends, and family—too many to ever name. Thank you all. At Stratus, we want to partner with unconventional thinkers. The ones with the grit and vision to turn their ideas into reality. If that sounds like you, let’s chat. stratus-ventures.com

@garrytan there are 100 of these startups garry

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