ishan deshpande

we just hosted @ycombinator at @uofillinois for the first time in a decade. huge thanks to @koomen for making the trip down. this is truly the start of something special.

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@themaxyang @ericosiu @singlegrain love it

Hey @ericosiu , I'd love to work with you as an AI Automation Intern at @singlegrain. Here's my pitch 🧵:

@RuhanPonnada @ycombinator @mintlify @ricardonunez_io Congrats Ruhan!

Excited to announce that Ricky and I are joining @ycombinator A year and a half ago, we joined @mintlify, where we overlapped paths. Ricardo went from sales to eng, and I went from eng to sales. The sales org started small with just me and the head of sales, and now we've grown to over 12 reps and 3 solutions engineers. Ricky joined when the engineering team was 3 people, and he's helped scale the team to over 20 engineers. Ricardo and I didn't want to leave Mintlify because work didn't feel like work. We played ping pong, solved customer pain points, shipped and sunsetted features, and a lot more. We also learned a fuck ton from @handotdev and @hahnbeelee. Ricardo and I left because we wanted to build a tool that was beyond our internal sales team. As both of us come from sales backgrounds, we noticed a few key problems: the modern GTM stack is fragmented, data in CRMs is missing/incomplete, and reps have limited time to context switch between calls. Perhaps the biggest insight: how do reps increase deal ACV through value selling and not line-item selling? We'll be launching in the upcoming weeks. If you're in sales or building a GTM team, check out our GTM audit salesgraph.com/gtm-audit, a cheatsheet on your company's GTM motion to help reps with background research. Mintlify salesgraph.com/gtm-audit/mint… Vercel salesgraph.com/gtm-audit/verc… Browserbase salesgraph.com/gtm-audit/brow… I would also love to chat about your team's current sales processes, dm me, coffee on me! As once said by a wise man, "always be selling". This picture is a screenshot from our YC video 😅 the only pic I have of us two

@wwzeng1 @JasonBud @SpaceX @xai let’s go!

I'm excited to join @SpaceX and @xai to build the future of coding. The opportunity for impact at xAI is monumental. By solving autonomous engineering, we’ll be able to accelerate our progress towards the future and reveal new secrets about the universe. Over the last few years I've worked on the first open source AI coding agent and the number one rated plugin for JetBrains. Now I'm excited to join the world's most ambitious team to advance Al coding. If you want to join this incredible team - my DMs are open!

@peterwildeford xAI will catch up this year and then exceed them all by such a long distance in 3 years that you will need the James Webb telescope to see who is in second place

@AmanGotchu @SpaceX @xai welcome aman!

I'm joining @SpaceX and @xai to build the best coding AI. For the last couple years I founded the most widely used coding agent for Android, scaling it to millions in revenue with a team of 3. I've watched model capabilities compound at a staggering rate and we're clearly on the brink of recursive superintelligence. This is the most important problem to solve in history and requires an immense amount of resources to realize. xAI is the place to build the future. Frontier compute, extraordinary talent, and a strong hold on physical intelligence and space. If you want to focus on executing towards the most important problems of our time, DM me. We're in challenger mode and we are building the winning team.

“the lowest hallucination rate of any model we have tested”

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@dchaplot @keigotsuda welcome!! so excited to work with you

I'm joining SpaceX and xAI, working closely with Elon and team to build superintelligence. Together SpaceX and xAI combine physical and digital intelligence under a leader who understands hardware at the deepest level. Add a high-agency culture with frontier-scale resources, and you get the possibility to achieve something truly unique. I’m excited to advance the fields I’ve obsessed over for years, from robotics research to building AI models on the founding teams of Mistral and TML. Both were extraordinary journeys with extraordinary people that shaped how I think about building intelligence from the ground up. Grateful for everything that brought me here and can’t wait to get started.

always happy to chat with exceptional engineers, reach out! my dms are open

@tetsuoai @elonmusk @xai 100% we are hiring more and more from people who share their useful projects on X

BREAKING: @milichab & @JasonBud are joining xAI

Thrilled to welcome @milichab and @JasonBud to build what’s possible at XAI + SpaceX The AI products that truly transforms the world and delivers abundance for humanity won't look like today's tools. It demands first-principles rethinking, grand ambition, vastly more training compute—and crucially, 100X+ inference scale to serve billions in real time. What gets me out of bed every morning is the certainty that this future is within reach, but only possible within one ecosystem that innovates across energy, chips, data centers, AI models, space ships, internet, and humanoid robots.

@milichab @SpaceX @xai @JasonBud let's go!! welcome

I’m joining @SpaceX and @xai with @JasonBud. X is the company realizing science fiction - reusable rockets, humanoid robots, data centers in space, and more. Almost 10 years ago, I joined SpaceX as an intern on Dragon 2 crew displays. This was in the era of the first rocket landings on barges, long before the Dragon 2 restored human spaceflight to America or Starlink delivered internet from space. Every day since then, I’ve thought about the next steps to land on the Moon - and to build a city on Mars, data centers in space, the brains behind robots, and beyond. There is no better place to build teams and products from the ground up with planetary scale resources. If you’re looking to work on the hardest problems that lay a foundation for humanity’s future to the Moon, Mars, and beyond - DM me.

build from first principles all the way to the stars!

@JasonBud @milichab welcome!

I’m proud to be joining SpaceX and xAI with @milichab It has become clear that software is changing fundamentally. More and more, people can shape the tools they use directly, and the ceiling of what can be built keeps rising. What makes xAI special is the scale of its ambition: to build from first principles all the way out to the stars. I’m especially grateful to work on products that expand human agency and freedom. That mission is deeply personal to me. My family came to the United States fleeing communism, and the belief that freedom should be part of the next generation of the internet has driven me every day since Andrew and I started Skiff. Now, we get to work on intelligence, understanding, and freedom on a universal scale.

Who are the best angels in the bay? Hosting a small dinner next Tuesday for those who are helping founders the most. Tag them below!