Darren Chow

and now they're fusing

member of technical staff is to engineering, what gtm is to sales

a lesson for everyone early in their careers—take the leap!

@bolau_ time for extend’s chronically online era, so excited to have ur unhinged energy around 🫶

just packed up the office where Extend grew from 6 → ~30 people I found a picture from day 1 when we were assembling chairs and desks together on the empty floor today, we could barely fit everyone in the room for one last photo onto the next chapter: a full floor in bright and sunny union square office warming party soon!

@bolau_ @jordanalexmeyer 💀

@jordanalexmeyer @dchow_ he can get mr beast to mc it

thinking about proposing a jake paul style boxing match event between other document companies at work tmr

@kushalbyatnal @Opendoor Yan is the epitome of a champion

how it started vs. how it's going @opendoor chose Extend to power document processing for its title and escrow operations 10s of millions of pages, 300k+ homeowners, and we're just getting started

the most satisfying part of building a company isn't your own wins it's seeing your customers win

@kushalbyatnal an absolute whale, many more coming!

few things are more adrenaline inducing than bringing in big deals on the very last day of the quarter happy Q3!

role inflation is getting out of hand...

@tferriss also why competition in your segment isn't bad signal - it means the space is exciting and large enough to target. Most competitors die out in the long-run, just need to not die and stay focused

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason. Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort. The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

everyone (myself included) likes to shit on IB and consulting jobs either the advent of ai but despite how soul crushing management consulting was, it taught me how to be a good communicator and think from right-to-left. agency is a learned skill

OpenAI using a science metaphor for their family of models vs. Claude's humanities metaphor really reflects their positioning and branding in the market

seeking a videographer / filmmaker who has a point of view and is not afraid to push boundaries all these product launch videos look the same and if you're as bored of it as I am, DM me! and if you know someone who might be a good fit, please put me on 🙏

@benln Extend, jobs.ashbyhq.com/extend, NYC!

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@kushalbyatnal genuinely, off the dome. when i realized CLI rhymed with 5, i knew what i had to do

@dchow_ don’t lie, how long did it take you to come up with this 😂

today, we're open sourcing the Extend CLI watch Fable use it to parse and extract an entire corpus of documents — end to end, without leaving the terminal try it yourself: npm install -g @​extend-ai/cli it comes with a built-in agent skill, so claude code/codex/cursor know how to drive it out of the box

me: caveman prompts fable for a beautiful video with the @ExtendHQ logo fable: procedurally generates 20+ unique animated logos inspired by culture, art, science, nature, etc., overlaid on original music anything is possible