Dominik Vacikar

You can now wire Specter's private market data directly into Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini with our new MCP Server 🔌 We just launched 14 dedicated tools to bring deeper, faster context directly into your AI workflows. Link to the full setup guide and use cases in the comments 👇

🚨 BREAKING: @goodfellow_ian, deep learning pioneer and inventor of GANs, leaves Google DeepMind. First spotted by Specter.

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics. “Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….” The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

The lesson: If your panel feels controlled, it’s probably boring. Throw the script away. Huge thanks to @simoneroccoli and Chapeau Media for the world-class organisation at the London Business School Private Capital Conference. Authentic conversations > everything. 🙏

Yesterday at @LondonBSchool, we ditched the 45 minutes of "safe" questions. We went completely unhinged—no PR fluff or "innovation" buzzwords. Just the ugly truth about why most hubs fail, the ego of the industry, and where the $100B companies are actually being built.

5 minutes in, the script went in the trash. 🗑️ When you have @HarryStebbings, @dinikaM2 (@cherryventures), and @Mattisani (insiders.vc) on stage, you don't moderate—you just try to keep up. 🧵

.@chichikid & @marcosqrc on the universal data-driven transition hitting PE: “The shift to being data-driven that defined VC is now happening to more traditional verticals like private equity.” “We are seeing a much bigger opportunity now that traditional investors are reaching out to us for the @SpecterHQ terminal.”

@mymind is the app down? Can’t load it for 4 hours now.

Investment Bank Product: 16 hours. That's how long it took from the first demo to payment from one of the two biggest investment banks in the world. @chichikid and @marcosqrc on the @SpecterHQ GTM playbook: Get the biggest client, and the rest follow. The litmus test is urgency: If the "smartest people go for it and buy it," it's good. If they hesitate, it's not. Validation is the strategy.

350 VC and PE firms use Specter (@SpecterHQ). What is it? @chichikid (Co-Founder): "Real-time intelligence about private companies and startups. Signals about what's happening with companies, the people behind them, and the investors backing them." 6 years in the market. Fully bootstrapped. "We've been growing very consciously and steadily." No funding. 350 clients. That's how you build.

@mattstasoff 🎩

social signals 2025_v5 docs.google.com/presentation/d…

@etnshow @marcosqrc

"You are one of the fastest growing tech show in Europe, what do you talk about?" - this about sums it up

@etnshow 🤣🤣🤣this killed me

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When you start a company you have no idea how big it can get. The founders of Specter (@SpecterHQ) Marco (@marcosqrc) and Dominik (@chichikid) are realising 5 years in just how big the opportunity really is. Specter is the live data and AI-driven analysis company for private markets. "If you look at some of the incumbents like Preqin or Pitchbook, you know Pitchbook is a $750M ARR company" They want to build a huge company so naturally they're hiring like crazy right now and shipping faster.

GG on latest ep @etnshow x @SpecterHQ 🤌 🔗 tryspecter.com 🔗 etn. live 🟢 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Live with Marco Squarci @marcosqrc and Dominik Vacikar @chichikid Founder of Specter @SpecterHQ

@FounderKyle didn't have this on my bingo card

Adobe is acquiring Semrush for $1,900,000,000 cash. What in the world.

we are not at slush this year. we made a small site about it. slush.tryspecter.com it's a small 💌 to an event with the best energy out there. #slush

@etnshow @SpecterHQ @marcosqrc Is that a Monet I see there? 👀

Most of the news were stale.. before @SpecterHQ ✨ Thanks for coming on @marcosqrc!