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San Francisco, CA Katılım Ekim 2016
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Max and @zhaolan_monk met during ODF's second cohort and decided to co-found Warmly. 7 years later: acquisition by HubSpot Congrats to the team!
maximus greenwald@MaxPGreenwald

Big news: @HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is acquiring @warmlyai . Well that feels surreal to write. Today, I feel just as excited as 7 years ago when I was starting up! Back then, I was giddy. Just a guy with an idea & a few cofounders hoping to change the world of GTM forever. And then reality struck - building a company was hard! Every day we learned a little more, failed a little less and 6 pivots later advances in LLMs finally unlocked the product we’d been trying to build. In 2023 we took years of battle scars building our own GTM & put everything we had into building AI Agents that would modernize how marketing & sales teams worked together. Enter HubSpot. In 2023 we built our first integration. (It was HubSpot) In 2024 we had 20 customers integrated with HubSpot In 2025 we had 100 customers integrated with HubSpot In 2026 we now have 223 paying customers integrated with HubSpot! As Warmly has grown, HubSpot has always been there for us. As Warmly’s AI Agents started booking meetings for customers, HubSpot’s Data Hub was a key source. As Warmly’s Inbound Agent enticed & de-anonymized website visitors, HubSpot’s Smart CRM was where we stored chat transcripts. As Warmly’s TAM Agent created differentiated fresh lead lists, HubSpot’s dashboards showed GTM Execs how much pipeline we got them. And today, we’re joining forces to build the future of AI-native GTM and help our customers grow their business with both Warmth and HEART (if you know, you know). So what happens next? 1/ To our customers: this is just the beginning. Thank you for taking a bet on us and making us into the business we are today. Stay tuned for more epic releases coming soon. 2/ To our Warmsters past and present: Every feature shipped, every customer won, every late night, every hard conversation, this company exists because you always exhibited our core value to always Add A Comma, in everything you do. 3/ To my cofounders new and old: @zhaolan_monk @carinaboo, Val @KeeganOtter7, Ryan - You’re my best friends, the reason I can tackle every curveball that was thrown our way. We’ve climbed mountains and persevered. Thank you. 4/ To our new teammates: Angela, Richa, Jared, Duncan, Yamini - we are stepping on the shoulders of giants. Can’t wait to build amazing AI-native solutions to 10x our customers! 5/ To me: 7 years ago you would have never believed you’d be here today, be proud. I only hope for you that, 7 years from now, you will continue to surprise yourself on what you can accomplish. Signing off as we always have, but this time with more excitement than ever. Warmly, Max

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ari dutilh@aridutilh·
The Solo Founders Podcast is only 19 weeks old. We've shipped 19 episodes. About to hit 250k views on YT. 10k subs is on its way. It's early days, but the idea of solo founding becomes closer to the default with every episode we release.
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Solo Founders@solofounders

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weisser@julianweisser·
Today we’re unveiling Solo Grants. We give microgrants ($100-1,000) to individuals pursuing passion projects. We’ve already given 50 out and we’re just getting started. Solo Founders Podcast ep 19 is live with @aridutilh to discuss it. 00:09 The announcement 07:04 Microgrants 101: the world of no-strings money 14:35 The few-hundred-dollar gap 19:02 The grantee who asked for $100 less 21:56 A $500 check from a stranger 32:33 Solo, together
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ari dutilh@aridutilh·
The world is made of passion projects. We're supporting more of them. Up to $1K grants, no strings attached, for people building ambitious projects solo. Apply @sologrants
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weisser@julianweisser·
"Millions of people creating with the same tool for totally different use cases, but the output looks the same. That's where the feeling of AI slop comes from." She's making it her mission to put an end to it. Solo Founders Podcast ep 18 is live with @thaiscbranco_ of @tastelabs. 00:47 Why she went solo 02:08 What "taste" actually is 11:30 A quirk on one, slop on millions 13:09 The real cause: volume 19:37 Why it had to be a "lab" 30:04 You're bad at commissioning AI 44:01 Branding, Liquid Death and what lasts 58:34 The bear and bull case for going solo
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Dhravya Shah@DhravyaShah·
Introducing the $100 max plan on @supermemory cloud - 7x limit from pro plan and 10x cheaper than self-hosting same amount of usage - Granola, Gmail and other connectors - Most API features enabled - Best for startups, internal team and heavy personal use!
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Andrew Rea@andrew__rea·
Today we announce raising our Series A and $25M in total funding to do more of the work for the hundreds of companies that trust us with their sales tax and the thousands more we want to serve. Indirect tax is the least sexy, biggest problem in almost every company that sells anything. In the US, businesses remit over $600B in sales tax a year. Globally it's ~$5 trillion in VAT. It never goes away. It only gets bigger. And it lands on people who never signed up for it. Your controller. Your VP of Finance. Your CFO.
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weisser@julianweisser·
He tried a co-founder and realized it was a mistake. Then he built solo and raised $50M. Solo Founders Podcast ep 17 is live with @Altimor of @getlindy. 06:53 The bar for a co-founder: if there's a doubt, there's no doubt 07:55 Why vesting schedules are broken 12:23 From Uber to an accidental company 19:37 When the market moves on 23:32 Cutting the team and pivoting to Lindy 26:54 The real cure for burnout 43:29 The bear and bull case for going solo
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Solo Founders@solofounders·
If most VCs like your idea, you should probably change it.
weisser@julianweisser

Solo-founded $2B company. Used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit. Solo Founders ep 13 is live with @grinich of @WorkOS. 07:49 The co-founder "blood bond" is a myth 10:55 There's only room for one Zuck at Meta 32:51 Pivots are the most traumatic thing you can do to a business 43:18 The best ideas always look like bad ideas 50:14 Sales is the ultimate expression of the company's value 53:57 The "founder pixie dust" no hire can replace 01:07:42 You only get one life. Why not swing as hard as you can?

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ben@contraben·
We all know AI has a "taste" problem. We measured it. It’s (somewhat) fixable, but AI judges can't replace human creative judgement. Introducing Design Crit. New research from @contralabs_ai and @world_lica, now live on @arxiv
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Andrey@Spirit532_·
Small announcement: I received the Merge/Solo grant(@mergedotclub), supporting my project to make affordable scanning electron microscopes, accompanied by a slew of other scientific equipment. And a sneak peek of what's next :) Thanks to @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh!
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ODF@joinodf·
"The bar we hire against is simple: - does this person raise the bar in some way? - would we put them in front of our customers? - would we want to work with them if they started a company? - do they care? do they give a f*ck? The ones who clear it have usually already been the person responsible when something broke or have delivered against hard odds." @andrew__rea on building @taxwire_inc (they are hiring)
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