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@alan_frei Thank you for organizing! Zurich is on fire right now!

We put Zurich on the tech map. 🚀 Yesterday, we hosted A3F 2026 at Kaufleuten. 500+ founders, investors and builders in one room. Sold out. And the energy was incredible, from morning to afterparty. 🎉 My goal was simple: Bring the right people together so that everyone leaves with more energy and better ideas than they came with. And it worked. Seeing Steve Wozniak on stage in Zurich was surreal. Recording the Club Wasserdicht podcast live with Marc, Adrian and Tobias for the first time was a lot of fun. But what I enjoyed the most were the moments in between, people meeting, exchanging ideas, starting conversations. That’s what this is about. Big thank you to all speakers, partners, and especially our sponsors @UBS , @STARTUPSCH , @swisscasinos , and @Unique for making this happen. 🙏 And of course everyone who showed up. This was the first time we did A3F on this scale. And we’ll take this energy and build the next one. 🚀 See you at A3F 2027! PS: Early bird tickets are already available: eventfrog.ch/de/p/kurse-sem…

@wadefoster @zapier We fit the bill and would love to try this!

Today we open early access to @Zapier's next product We've been using it internally for months (>1,000,000 actions executed so far) and it's completely changed how we work. We're letting a small group of AI-forward teams try it first and give feedback. Who we’re looking for: - 10-100 person teams using AI daily, but need to do so more collaboratively - teams ready to build and ship automations through agents, not just chat - teams that already work in the open (call recordings, shared docs, public channels, etc) - teams obsessed with optimizing every aspect of their work Join the waitlist: zapier.com/shared-brain

@Jason I’m in

We started an AI founder twitter group... reply with "I'm in" if you're a founder and want to be added

@fin465 Outbound

I got tired of showing 100+ YC founders the outbound guide that i've watched take many from $0 -> $100k, $500k, even $1m ARR during the 3-month YC batch, so i'm providing it here for free: every YC batch, I talk to new founders about the best strategy to go from pre-product to top revenue of the batch in that 12-week period. Here's what I've seen work: 1. Don't bother with cold email. Cold email infra will take weeks to setup. If you're not an expert, it's not worth it. even if done properly, it's gotten impossible to compete with AI spam taking over inboxes. 2. Linkedin is a goldmine for outbound in 2026. There's no reason you shouldn't be sending 200 new linkedin connections every week to great fit prospects. If 50% accept your connection, you have 100 new potential customers to reach out to every week. You can easily setup an automated Linkedin Connector safely. Just upload your lead list and it will auto-connect. 3. Don't automate your message sending (wait, what?) if you build your lead list effectively, you will have a list of the few hundred HIGHEST value prospects to target (your top .1% buyers). These people are really important to you, and limited. Treat them well. Try to use linkedin 'casually' to start conversations with them in a more genuine way (more on this in the full guide). 4. Build that 'top .1% list' write out your exact dream customer profile, first at the company level. Then, person level. The more specific you can be about your dream customer, the better. The goal here is to create such a perfect customer, that if they heard about your solution they would have no choice but to say "tell me more". A few more miscellaneous tips: • do max volume connecting on all of your team-members accounts • an empty note for connection requests has the highest accept rates • don't use inMail. Connect first, then message • as you connect with more customers in your niche, you will gain more mutuals and your connect rate will increase over time This is just the beginning though if you actually want to execute this well. I wrote up a highly detailed guide going over each of these sections in more depth. completely step by step. Want the guide? Comment "outbound" and I'll dm you the entire guide that shows the exact process used by dozens of founders to scale from $0 -> $100k+ ARR in their first few months, that still works in 2026.

@andreasklinger Lots like this happening in Zurich!

At a casual mid week Zurich robotics meetup. 400 sign ups and lineup like a conference. 🤯 Might need to move town 👀

We just had a non-AI contractor spend 10 hours debugging a scrolling issue. In the same time we build entire feature sets with Claude Code and Codex. This would've been fine a year ago. It's not anymore.

@xie_tian Great to see Zurich on the map ;)

Personal update: I have left Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. I am starting my new role as a founding member of technical staff at Project Prometheus. I will be helping to build a new team here. It has been an incredible 4 years at Microsoft Research AI for Science. We have built MatterGen and MatterSim as a flywheel to accelerate materials discovery. We have synthesized these materials and tested their performance in the real world. It’s been an honor to work with everyone and make all of these into a reality. We are hiring across London, San Francisco, and Zurich at Project Prometheus. Please reach out if you are interested in joining us.

@gtzi Always good to see tech events in Zurich. Keep it up!

Looking forward to meeting with 250+ Greeks in Tech peers in Zurich this very Friday! 🇨🇭🇬🇷🥂 We'll be joined by some of the best and the brightest founders, scientists and technologists, everyone keen to connect with you all. See you at Coin Coin in Ernst-Nobs-Platz 1, a 10' walk from Zurich Hauptbahnhof, from 6pm until late. If you are around, don’t think twice – just drop by and say hi, non-stop & casual networking guaranteed!

@steipete @sabinedoering Definitiv ein DACH Thema. Wobei man zumindest in Zürich einen Vibe Shift spürt.

In der USA sind die meisten Menschen enthusiastisch. In Europa werde ich beschimpft, Leute schreien REGULIERUNG und VERANTWORTUNG. Und wenn ich wirklich hier eine Firma baue dann kann ich mich mit Themen wie Investitionsschutzgesetz, Mitarbeiterbeteiligung und lähmenden Arbeitsregulierungen abkämpfen. Bei OAI arbeiten die meisten Leute 6-7 Tage die Woche und werden depentsprechend bezahlt. Be uns ist das illegal.

Der OpenClaw-Gründer Peter Steinberger entkräftet hier sachlich viele B/Doomer-Bedrohungsszenarien. Nun geht er zu OpenAI. Warum konnte oder wollte Europa dieses Talent nicht halten? Ums Geld allein ging es ihm ja ganz offensichtlich nicht. on.orf.at/video/14311959…

@robindchnt Can definitely confirm this shift for Zurich. The level of experience, funding and speed has changed in the ecosystem here. Having one of the best technical punishes of course

something is shifting in Europe. you can feel it in the conversations, in the quality of teams forming, in the ambition of what's being built. for the first time in a long time, the momentum feels real. in London, Zurich, Munich, and beyond - robotics engineers, applied AI scientists, second-time entrepreneurs returning from the US they're not waiting for perfect conditions. they're building in defense, industrial AI, and energy infrastructure. the domains that matter most. last week @HypersonicaGmbH and Onodrim Industries made major announcements. it’s a proof that the ecosystem is moving. what's more encouraging is the pattern beneath it: founders who understand both software and industrial reality, who can navigate complex procurement, who are building platforms rather than point solutions. these founders are what make me genuinely hopeful about europe's future. meeting them, hearing their conviction, watching them solve problems others won't touch. at @generalcatalyst, we're sparring partners from day zero. testing ideas, shaping missions, navigating regulatory or procurement friction, connecting founders directly to the institutions that shape adoption. beyond capital - the long-term commitment that building in hard industries requires. europe's challenge lies in turning breakthrough research into scaled industrial outcomes. that gap is precisely what we're working to close, alongside the continent's most ambitious founders. grateful to have developed this thinking with @jcfurstenberg and Gosia Majczak. the thesis is simple: resilience as an operating system. defense, industrial production, energy infrastructure as a connected stack. AI and software-defined hardware as the layer where advantage compounds. the moment is now. the founders are here. the work is already underway. you can find the post here: generalcatalyst.com/stories/from-o…

@antinertia Wait until they hear about @steipete ‘s exit to OpenAI

linkedin just discovered openclaw

@blwiertz @techeurope_ Super cool and something that should happen more often! Hoping Zurich follows suit

Europe has enough "Startup" conferences Europe has enough old-school conferences in outdated hotel conference centers. What Europe needs is a conference for those who actually build the future in Europe. Technical talks & demos instead of keynotes... And because @techeurope_ always builds what's needed, we are happy to do our very first conference on the 28th of May in Berlin. We will accept only 400 attendees and will have a stacked lineup featuring speakers from Legora, Fal AI, Intercom, Dust, Elastic, and many more. Apply for a ticket: conference.techeurope.io

@eric_demuth Have you tried Claude Code? It's wild how versatile it is for a generalist who can't code

I am totally locked in after experiencing the power of Claude + Cursor. I have built Bitpanda for 12 years without any ability to code. Always trying to express my ideas to builders. Now I can build an MVP within a day on my own. This is a total game changer.

The job of an engineer in 2026 is not writing code. It's describing outcomes, defining data flows, and steering AI to execute. The skill shift is massive and most hiring processes haven't caught up (ours have)

I'm building CASUS — an AI-powered legal tech startup in Switzerland. I'll be sharing what I learn about: → Building legal AI products that work in production → The European tech scene from the inside → What happens when AI meets one of the most traditional industries → And why a bunch of Claude Skills don't destroy all legaltech businesses

@ordonez_adan Great quote from a conference recently: Nobody thinks "I need a lawyer" but they do think "I need a solution to my problem". Until now a lawyer was usually the answer. Soon it won't be anymore

The lawyers who refuse to learn AI won't lose their jobs tomorrow, but they'll become the most expensive and least efficient option in the market. And when clients realize they can get the same quality work in half the time from lawyers who use AI, the old-school lawyers are going to be in trouble. The market always rewards efficiency eventually. It's just a matter of time.

@neilhoulsby Not just a remarkable time in AI but for Zurich as well!

🚨 New roles at Anthropic Zurich 🇨🇭 In addition to pre-training (where we've been hiring so far), post-training and security are joining and have open roles! It's a remarkable time in AI, the company, and on the site. job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic?offi…

@brianblond @MatteoMartino @incard But why call it Monaco then?

@MatteoMartino @incard Hey! Sorry about that. As of right now we can only support US companies. But when we expand I’ll let you know!

I’m thrilled to announce Monaco is coming out of stealth.  My brother Sam Blond and I started Monaco to build the first AI-native revenue platform for startups. We incubated at Human Capital and have raised $35M+ from Founders Fund, Human Capital, and an incredible group of angels. After years as a CRO, I was fed up with bloated CRMs and a maze of disconnected tools that took armies of consultants just to function—and still didn’t help teams sell. AI changes everything. The CRM as we know it is dead. Monaco replaces the entire revenue stack—prospecting, outreach, pipeline, and deal management—with one AI-native system that actually does the work with you, not just records it. As Peter Thiel said: “No product sells itself—though Monaco comes close.”

@samdblond Would love to get a demo but keep being filtered out in your Typeform. Europe not a target yet despite the name? ;)

We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived.

@nikitabier I love the article product, great work! Can we make them easy printable? Some of the really good (and longer) articles I often print to read physically