Vlad Lokshin

Deadline extended! You have another week to apply to Camp

Highly recommend applying to @betaworks Camp. Tato went through it. We made incredible connections and raised our $5M seed ~6 months later! Thesis: beta.works/camp Apply: beta.works/agentsystems

We led the $5M Seed round for Tato!💰 Tato’s #agentic #AI delivers #ERP implementations & other big #IT projects on time & on budget. Congrats to co-founders @justingdelisle, @madlulz, & Mathieu Chrétien. We can't wait for what's next! Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/ridgevc_…

@BasQuxFoo I tried the bumper and it made it slippier 🤣. Heard good things about the base.

Alright any other dummies who got the iPhone air, like me, need to take the L and return it cause this camera SUUUUCKS lol

the 9-9-6 local maxima trap you can optimize for looking busy, hitting metrics, being “productive” – but you might be climbing the wrong hill entirely. real breakthroughs happen in the spaces between. when you’re walking and your mind wanders. when you sit with a problem long enough that the obvious solutions dissolve and something deeper emerges. when you have the luxury of thinking “what if we’re approaching this completely wrong?” my process is simple: i’ll open a Notion doc on my phone and just walk. sometimes for hours. the walking rhythm unlocks something – maybe it’s the bilateral movement, maybe it’s getting away from screens, but ideas start connecting in ways they never do at a desk. i’ll quickly jot stuff down as interesting thoughts pass. then i come back and just sit with the problem. draw some pictures, build it out a bit. no rushing to conclusions. no pressure to ship something by end of day. just... what is this, really? what can it connect to or evolve into? what would this look like if it were in its most beautiful configuration? once i see it clearly, execution becomes effortless. the focused bursts where you’re completely in flow – that’s when the real work happens. but you can’t force your way there. you have to earn it with the slow, patient thinking first. the irony is that this “inefficient” approach ships better stuff faster than grinding 12-hour days. but it requires believing that thinking time isn’t wasted time. that walking isn’t procrastination. that sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to not do. many teams don’t get this. they need to see keyboards clicking and meetings happening. but the best work – the stuff that actually moves the needle – happens in the flow moments when no one’s watching.

Wake up and immediately look at small screen before clocking 8 hours behind medium screen. Take a few breaks to check in on small screen. Go home and spend a few hours staring at big screen to wind down before getting into bed and looking at small screen. Living the dream.

Hiring a founding designer at Tato! tatosolutions.notion.site/hiring-designer I've been lucky enough to work closely with some of the world's best designers, to see these artists' careers sprout and evolve into industry leaders. Now, we're hiring a first designer at Tato. I can't wait to bring on someone incredible and get to play even a small part in seeing them flourish. Perks: - you'll own the visuals, end-to-end, of a category defining product - you'll join a fast growing startup and learn how a business gets built - you'll work with an incredible team (mostly engineers) - competitive comp, cool space in Montreal+NYC when you want to see other humans Please reach out if you may be a fit or know someone.

Get $500k to create the future of interfaces with a bunch of talented weirdos in the coolest space in NYC. Applications to the latest @betaworks Camp are now open: beta.works/interfaces

@waichi3 Congrats!!

Gm

@KevinUnkrich @superpower Congrats!!! 🚀🦾

Excited to announce Superpower's $30 million series A today. @superpower is dedicated to using the advancements in AI technology and health to build healthcare's first super app. This fundraise brings us one step closer in our journey towards the future of healthcare. Huge thanks to Forerunner and Day One, as well as celebrities Steve Aoki, actress Vanessa Hudgens, NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo, and existing investors Cyan Bannister, Shaan Puri, Balaji, Arielle Zuckerberg and many more.

OG images. A small but persistent headache for anyone managing a brand website. Quick story—old way vs. AI way. We've all been there... - Old Way (1+ hour, questionable results) - 1. Google "ideal OG image size" yet again. 2. Spend too much time tweaking logos, text, and images in Figma. 3. Send the result to a friend, only to find weird cropping issues on desktop, mobile, Twitter, iMessage... 4. Research safe zones and preview tools, waste more time. 5. Settle for a bland abstract or solid color image just to play it safe. - AI Way (15 minutes, great results) - 1. Ask your favorite AI model about OG image sizes and safe zones. 2. Quickly set up your Figma frame accordingly. 3. Think of an exciting customer story, describe it vividly to an AI image generator. 4. Paste the generated image into Figma, adjust the opacity, drop your logo, add shadows—done. Just ran the new way for tato.co - thoughts? feedback? Full size OG Image in comment 👇

Someone should build this. Aaron is the man, Zero is awesome, and there's a $1K bounty (edit $2K bounty, 🫡@thdxr)

Startups are hard. Raising young kids is hard. Between both, sometimes it feels like we’re playing life in Insanity Mode. But I know we’ll look back on these as the BEST days ❤️ Pictured: model Lev Lokshin (almost 7 mo) pictured wearing official Tato swag with big bro Luka (3.5 yrs) watching

If you're in town for the AI Engineer Summit or local to NYC, come by @betaworks  for drinks and demos tomorrow. Registration prio for technical folks. Demos from @rupertmanfredi of Operator and more! RSVP: lu.ma/5sh4c9bb Friday 2/21 at 6pm