Pete Koomen
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Pete Koomen
@koomen
GP @ycombinator, cofounded @optimizely https://t.co/5hkCw4y95d
Katılım Mayıs 2008
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I just spoke with a founder who is buying several factories. The first thing he wants to do is rip out Salesforce, Oracle and SAP, for which they’re paying a combined $1m per month. If you have experience with this please DM!
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@koomen Give me a couple of months. Or a couple of mil and I’ll get it done in a couple of weeks.
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@koomen The first thing the new owners are planning is taking that pesky fence down.
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Pete Koomen retweetledi
an IOI 2x gold medalist, a Navy explosive ordnance officer, and a 17 y/o intern at Coinbase walked into Chase Center last weekend...
...and I interviewed all of them.
I found 12 of the most ambitious builders and founders at YC Startup School, out of over 6,000 people.
from all over the world, all with the same energy: earnest, creative, resourceful - including one who built a rocket out of salad bowls.
PS: you can still apply late to YC F26.
00:00 — Intro
00:28 — Meet the founders and builders
02:01 — What they’re building
09:17 — Should you go to college?
10:46 — Why they started
11:58 — Advice and what’s next
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@koomen this sounds insane
why rip them out? as opposed to building a layer on top that can work with Salesforce/Oracle/SAP?
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@NicolasBuilds @garrytan I think this is almost certainly a factor. However, gstack launched after most of the P26 batch had been accepted so its effect would only be visible in S26 and F26, long after the trend started.
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The percentage of YC applications containing the word "wedge" went from <1% in spring 25 to >20% in summer 26
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@theo A week of reading applications and thinking "back in my day (one year ago) founders didn't talk like this"
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@koomen Fascinating. I wonder if this is helping to inform hypothesized GTM.
Like, the founder wasn’t thinking about a product wedge - and then the model guided them in that direction.
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@Kazanjy I think it's mostly a product of founders using LLMs for help with writing. Opus seems to love that word for some reason.
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@koomen Are you viewing this as a good or bad thing?
Founders learning staged business models is probably better than trying to boil the ocean!
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@nichochar "delve" spiked in w24 and has since returned to pre-gpt4 levels. For all the attention it got the spike is relatively small!
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@Zach_Kamran i had the same thought! I (claude&codex) did some rough analysis and you can clearly see the different eras in tech represented in the language founders use in their apps. will have to do a longer writeup at some point..
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@koomen It would be really interesting to see a chart of words that have changed most in terms of frequency
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@morajabi emdashes started growing in 23 and really hit their stride in 24. Interestingly, space-emdash-space spiked in S25, just like "wedge", coinciding with the first opus launch in the spring of 25
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Pete Koomen retweetledi
Your personal AI or your company brain needs a clean harness and this is the one our team built and uses every day
Free and open source
Y Combinator@ycombinator
We’ve decided to open-source a multi-agent harness we use internally at YC. We call it “QM” and it’s meant to be easy to customize, like Hermes or OpenClaw, but useful for a whole company. We use it across accounting, legal, events, and engineering (including building QM itself!). The whole project is under an MIT license. It is cloud-first and has Slack and web UI natively.
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reposting this message:
I've taken to host QM here on smol machines for anyone to try it out!:
- qm2-77c96774dcd9.apps.smolmachines.com
Try asking it to "deploy a web app". It autonomously built and deployed this with a public link that you can share:
- …4e-77c96774dcd9.apps.smolmachines.com
I think the YC team here is working on an interesting open source agentic dev environment:
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Pete Koomen retweetledi
@ycombinator I've taken to host QM here on smol machines for anyone to try it out!
qm2-77c96774dcd9.apps.smolmachines.com
Try asking it to "deploy a web app".
It autonomously built and deployed this:
…4e-77c96774dcd9.apps.smolmachines.com
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Pete Koomen retweetledi
From the earliest days, YC has always been a software company.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
We’ve decided to open-source a multi-agent harness we use internally at YC. We call it “QM” and it’s meant to be easy to customize, like Hermes or OpenClaw, but useful for a whole company. We use it across accounting, legal, events, and engineering (including building QM itself!). The whole project is under an MIT license. It is cloud-first and has Slack and web UI natively.
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