Jack Bartlett

Excited to share I recently joined Listen as our Founding AE. Time to build 👂

@ali_susskind 🐐

I joined EF back in 2018 and have always felt genuinely lucky that my work doesn’t feel like work. For the last 8 years, my mission has been to find extraordinary people before the rest of the world does, and help them find and build their own life’s mission. In this time, the portfolio has grown from $1bn to $16bn and today EF has raised $200m in fresh capital to keep doing what we’re doing - lfg team 🚀

Time to build

Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding. Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't. Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess. See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:

"AI does its own exit interviews" When people cancel Claude Code, they get invited to an interview, facilitated by AI This is done by Listen Labs, started by @itsalfredw and @florian_jue It's an AI loop

Honored to be recognized as one of the top 40 private AI companies shaping the future. Thanks to our team, customers, and Madrona, and congrats to everyone featured!

@wordisbonz let’s go bonzo

a scientist flew me across the US to film a launch video. this is the launch video.

@ali_susskind let’s go

We're launching Builders Retreats for female engineers and creators - designed for women who are building the future.

@itsalfredw 👂🦄

"To build a great company, you need to write code and talk to users." - @florian_jue (co-founder of @ListenLabs) "AI agents can now write code, so what becomes important is building the right thing and having the right feedback." "That's what we are building: telling the AI what to do, what to build, and being the tastemaker."

@LiorOnAI crazy how boring traditional surveys are 🥹

Very impressive. You can now use agents to do market research. Listen just raised $27M from Sequoia to replace surveys and focus groups with thousands of AI interviews. ▸ Interviews, analysis, insights in under 24h ▸ Auto-generates reports, themes, highlight reels ▸ Handles video, audio, and text in 50+ languages

AI writes your code. Now it talks to your users. We raised $27M from @Sequoia to build @ListenLabs. Listen runs thousands of interviews to uncover what users want, why they churn, and what makes them convert. See how @Microsoft and @canva use it:

we've been hosting builder's retreats over the last few months. 3 weekends, 55 builders, 28 demos.

Today I was sent the following cool demo: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave

Fact: The avg age of NASA’s mission control team during the Apollo era was 27— they put humans on the moon. Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo. If we’re serious about cutting waste in gov spending, let’s not turn away new minds

“excuse me, which gate is flying to SFO?”

I can promise you one thing: If @matthewclifford had vast amounts of power in the UK political sphere; the UK wouldn’t be the Jaguar brand of the global tech scene. 🤷‍♂️ The man is brilliant.

Coming out of stealth tomorrow…

Bell Labs, the Manhattan Project, and the Apollo Program