Devan Sood

@ new followers since moving to SF(!) — allow me to reintroduce myself: I'm Devan (day-vin), and I've spent my entire life in marketing. education started early, I started attending my dad's @uclaanderson marketing classes at ~11. I started a clothing company at 15, a tech startup at 18, and have been working in tech ever since. I ended up going to @babson, I consulted on early stage growth at some startups, I led growth at some other startups, and most recently I was building/launching new AI/video products @heygenlabs. now I'm onto something new, still lowkey for now, but ask me about it 👀 if we haven't already gotten the chance to know each other, my DMs are open and I'm excited to meet you! if you're interested in the long story, link's in my bio

cc @MKBHD dude it’s only May this isn’t looking good

spotted the new @Tesla Cybercab (testing?) on the streets of SF!!

@liu8in no waaaayyyy so sick

i wonder who they are partnering with 😬

@itsgabsmith omg I need to hear what this is for 👀

Merging my first commit on met gala monday feels right

@matthieuschulz @deviationcap @windsurf @cognition huuugggeeee

I’m thrilled to be joining @deviationcap, working closely with founders from day zero and backing the next generation of outliers. @windsurf /@cognition has been the highlight of my career so far, a truly generational company in every sense. I’m coming into venture having seen what excellence looks like up close, and I plan to carry that bar into Deviation as I partner early with founders across developer tools, infrastructure, and applied AI. Deeply grateful to @jeffwsurf, @ScottWu46, @theodormarcu, @akshatag77 and the entire Cognition team. What drew me to Deviation is a simple idea: the most important companies start as deviations from the norm. That clarity of vision, and working alongside @jpgg, made this the right decision. I’m especially excited about the opportunity to help shape an emerging firm with a true builder mindset from day one.

@WilsonKyi @BasisSet @Rachel_S_Wong huge congrats Wilson!!

@BasisSet raised $250M Fund IV and is launching our AI fellowship and you’ll be surrounded by the best founders and researchers in SF. This is an assymetric opportunity for mentorship from our CTO @Rachel_S_Wong, our team, and our portfolio founders. We’re accepting a small batch. Apply today.

@sama link it

Agents SDK 2.0 is underrated

@joshua_xu_ my finding is that every autonomous message (if any) has to be immensely valuable outside any of the user's own work, otherwise it gets spammy and feels like constant fluff

We added 10+ AI agents into Slack as AI employees and now it just feels like information overflow. Too many messages, hard to tell what actually matters. Not sure chat is the right interface for this tbh. How are people dealing with it? voice? visuals? Maybe I’m biased, but I keep wanting something more visual. Feels like you can process way more, way faster.

@sophiaamoruso it’s kinda ratchet, but starts at 7 and goes late

@devansood What time?

Where can I play poker in SF tonight?

@amiyoshimura_ yooo!

in sf this whole week - who should i meet!

@PaulYacoubian @grok @Hunter_Weiss @mil000 this hilarious comparison broke grok? lol

@grok @Hunter_Weiss @mil000 how many people watch real housewives of atlanta by comparison?

@grok @Hunter_Weiss @mil000 Does it count if im scrolling thru my feed and the stream autoplays and i have the video in the screen for 3 seconds?

@travisk yo TK what's it take to get an invite to the launch 😅 cc @attwellbrian 🤞🏽

first: figure out who you're speaking to. was this a video to recruit hardcore engineers? or is this a video to *show* everybody what's actually coming out of stealth? as someone who’s not a hardcore engineer, I still want to be able to approach and understand the brand, the problems, and the solutions you’re discussing this video is a good example of 90% jargon that outsiders don’t understand (never heard of eventual consistency, spanner, region failure drill, etc.). maybe i'm not the right audience, but then your X strategy feels misaligned with your actual audience on X. it's stuff you know very well that would ease my pain; frame problems/solutions that resonate, “get from point A to point B without owning a car” or "deliver food without owning a kitchen" are both so digestible to normal people. you would never put out a launch video calling it “a geospatially optimized mobility fulfillment network” because it wouldn’t hit the same. i’m SO excited to follow Atoms, the vision you lay out is extremely compelling, but I'm desperately clinging on when this is the only content I see from you guys. so, it’s a fine video, actually love the authenticity behind it, maybe just in the wrong place/with the wrong target? much love and respect to you and the team! always happy to talk more, just a DM away x.com/devansood/stat…

Atoms infra

@davefontenot definitely me

Hosting a first of its kind talk on taking care of your human in the age of ai Reply for an invite

@lauradang0 definitely me!

I’m going to start a partnerships/growth group chat for startups! DM if you wanna join :))

@devannpatel Devans unite

them: what’s your most used app by screen time? me: google maps them: what? me: …

@attwellbrian 100%! I'm soooo excited to follow Atoms, just want the best for you guys!!

@devansood thanks for the feedback Devan. good points. and something to mull on. we're obviously new to doing tech PR after being stealth for so long

After 8 years in stealth, we’re opening things up. Atom’s first open source project, Splitter, is live. More coming soon 🏗️ github.com/atoms-co/split…

@BNarasin @speedrun gotchu x.com/aaronistan/sta…

Coolest thing at @speedrun wasn’t something I can find - a lamp that turns into a robot arm when you leave that picks up and folds your laundry.

as someone who reeeaaalllyy wanted to understand this video and watched twice to try, I left disappointed that the brand feels unapproachable. if this was just for super hardcore engineers, which are likely <5% of this whole audience, I think this could’ve been more targeted. that’s all, much love to what you guys are doing, despite my limited understanding!

@devansood test will be: do hardcore engineers understand it? if so, i'm pumped. if not, agree we gotta do it differently next time. i'm not trying to sell anything. just sharing tech with engineers :)