Bradley Horowitz

I’m so happy to share that we’ve closed Wisdom Ventures Fund II and raised $77.7m (against our target of $50m.) WSJ Coverage: lnkd.in/gJ7Ncka4 Press Release: lnkd.in/gtHaqpiM Incredibly grateful to my partners - Cecily Mak, Soren Gordhamer, Zoe Rogers, Vivek Murthy, Ruchika Sikri, Diego Perez, and Jack Kornfield. What an amazing and unexpected constellation of heart, mind and soul.  Privileged to be on this ride together.

Humans ∪ Machines ⊃ Humans △ Machines

@jdischler @20th_Centurygal I'll never forget the moment they started. It was disorienting. 1986.

@elatable @20th_Centurygal +1 Einstürzende Neubauten. My ears are ringing involuntarily just thinking about it.

Who’s the loudest band you’ve ever seen live?

You can now run any CLI agent with first-class support in Warp, including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Gemini CLI. • Vertical tabs • Notifications when they need you • Integrated code review • Remote control from mobile • Rich input editor Download Warp for free today.

For anyone in Boston / Cambridge next week... Go see design.mit.edu/events/general… and meet Tony, Megan and Sloo... Fantastic tale, beautifully told. Count the innumerable luminaries you see and hear mentioned... Learn the many lessons!

Grep just achieved SOTA on the three major deep research benchmarks, beating Perplexity, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic. We're a two-person founding team.

BREAKING: Moda by @trymoda is #1 on Slides Arena with an Elo of 1270! Moda is in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.6 Powerpoint by @AnthropicAI Huge congrats to the team on the launch!

I'm excited to back @anvisha a second time as she builds Moda. In a short time, this team has built an expansive product with a broad customer base from all over the world. It's time for design to be democratized. Congrats on the launch!

Absolutely incredible team behind this technology...

@dps @hbarra @alcor @dreamer @natfriedman What a team…. Congrats to all.

Excited to announce that @hbarra , @alcor and I are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs with the entire @Dreamer team today. The last few months have been extraordinary: we built Dreamer, put the beta in the world just a month ago, and saw magic come to life for real people. Since then, thousands of people have used Dreamer to build personal, intelligent software with our Sidekick in the world’s newest and most popular programming language: English! They're building and sharing agents to manage email, calendar, and to-do’s, create learning tools for their kids, learn new languages, plan trips with friends, become better cooks, help them with work, achieve their health goals, or simply to creatively express themselves—all sorts of surprising and uniquely personal needs. These are agents as unique as the people building them, because they're built exactly the way each person wants them to be. We’ve captured some of our favorites at dreamer.com/community-lett…. What matters most here isn’t the early momentum; it’s what Dreamer has enabled people to do. People are building things they’ve wanted for years. They’re solving real, important problems no traditional software company would ever prioritize, because they’re too niche, too bespoke, too personal. What company would ever build for an “n of 1”? Our bet from the beginning has been that software should be personal, malleable, and shaped by the person using it. The constraint was never people’s imagination. It was the fact that building software is out of reach for most people. This early chapter gives us conviction that the idea resonates, the need is real, and the moment is now. @alexandr_wang was helpful to us from the very beginning, and when we showed Dreamer to Mark Zuckerberg and @natfriedman earlier this year, it was clear right away that we share the same vision of the future: one where billions of people have the power to create software that makes their lives better. We’re thrilled to accelerate this mission by joining Meta Superintelligence Labs and licensing our technology to Meta. Read more at meta.com/superintellige…. Deeply grateful to our investors @jillchase124 and @ninaachadjian for supporting our vision for a more personal, creative, and intelligent future for software. Thank you for the trust, the thought partnership, and for being in our corner at every step. To everyone in our community who built with us: thank you. You've taught us what's possible, and you're the proof this works. We're so grateful, and we're just getting started!

@paulg @paultoo Amazing institution. Congrats!

It's Y Combinator's 21st birthday today.

@Techmeme @Knibbs Couldn’t do better than Toni (even as interim)!

Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (@knibbs / Wired) wired.com/story/bluesky-… #a260309p28" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260309/p28#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

@milesgrimshaw Congrats! Love that you shared some of the inspiration... he inspired a lot of us! @joechung

I was born too late for the early days of the internet, but I’ve studied it with boundless fascination. Stories like my dad’s, who founded one of the first ecommerce software companies out of MIT as a side quest from producing electronic music with Yo-Yo Ma. His love of creation inspired me. I pinch myself that we get to be a part of this moment! Change is the catalytic force for startups, and fundamental technical change is the most powerful of all. The internet digitized what we do. Intelligent computing does it for you. Every week our team has a ‘can’t unsee it’ experience, a product that would have been science fiction a few years ago. In a changing world, the biggest risk is comfort in the status quo. We are proud to be a part of the teams who are pioneering the future right under the nose of incumbents … look at Cursor, OpenEvidence, Turbopuffer, OpenAI… it’s a golden time for the missionaries, the visionaries, the inventors. With Thrive X, we are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to partner with the founders blazing new trails at this moment of tectonic change. thrivecap.com/thrive-x

Jobs called computers "bicycles for the mind" -- tools we could shape to our will. But they never were. Until now. Every morning an agent preps me for my day -- calendar, news, last 24hrs of Slack -- in a personal podcast. I made it by asking. Same for hundreds of other things. Launching @dreamer in beta today. That 🧠 bicycle, finally. dreamer.com

@hnshah @kcoleman

Distribution Is the Hard Part Most founders think the hard part is building the product. It’s not. The hard part is getting anyone to care. You can build something great. It can solve a real problem. It can even be timed perfectly. But if no one notices, it dies. This is where most founders get stuck. They think the job is to build. They think if they make something good enough, growth will take care of itself. That’s rarely how it works. A product without distribution is like a secret. And most secrets never get out. When founders talk about product/market fit, they often forget the middle part. The part where people actually have to find the thing. Try it. Tell someone else. Come back. And not just because the product is useful, but because they believe in it. The truth is, most products don’t spread on their own. People spread them. That means someone has to push. Someone has to tell the story in a way that makes other people want to be part of it. And that someone is usually the founder. This is what founders don’t want to hear. That they can’t hide behind the product. That being technical or visionary or obsessed with design isn’t enough. That the work doesn’t stop when the code is deployed. If you’re not doing the work to get attention, you’re betting on luck. And luck is not a strategy. People say things like “focus on the problem” or “build something people want.” That’s good advice. But it’s not the whole picture. Because no matter how perfect your solution is, it won’t matter if people don’t know it exists. Distribution is not a phase. It’s not a channel. It’s not a growth hack. Distribution is belief. It’s the transfer of energy from the founder to the market. The best founders do it relentlessly. They don’t wait to be discovered. They create momentum. The best ones know: the product is important, but getting people to care is what makes it real.

Many friends have asked how they can see Eno. Five upcoming (streaming) screenings! chanceoperations.com/events

@shaig Wisdom Ventures: OpenAI, Anthropic

@wolfejosh @patrick_oshag @GavinSBaker And me! @elatable

1/ Foretell is out of stealth Backed by Lux, Thrive, Founders Fund, Valor + @patrick_oshag + @GavinSBaker WIRED: "Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?

@RogerODonnellX HBD! Loved it.

Good morning and here's the premiere of Projections the video made by Mimi from hours and hours of video I shot over the years of touring and recording. Hope you enjoy it... youtube.com/watch?v=sdFW82…