Casey Winters

Today, we’re pulling the curtain back to unveil SuperMe 1.0: the AI-native professional network, launch Perspective Search, and announce that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round. How @SuperMeAI works: - Ask a question. - SuperMe finds the right professionals. - Their AI profiles answer instantly, grounded in their real work. It’s how advice really works in business. We’ve just built it into the network. Search is changing. But it has gaps. AI assistants answer without revealing the humans behind the knowledge. Perspectives are lost as blue links turn into one-size-fits-all answers. Perspective Search is our answer to that. We show multiple answers to your questions, from people who have solved your problem before. You can also go deeper by engaging with individual profiles. We’re also excited to share that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round led by @mduboe at @GreylockVC , joined by some of the most thoughtful builders and operators in tech (see list below). Read the full story in Alex Konrad’s Upstarts and our full launch post in the comment below. We’ve brought on a large group of amazing angels to help bootstrap the network with fantastic insights: Product Leaders: @aparnacd , CPO for AI Experiences at Microsoft @nikhyl , Founder of the Skip and Former VP Product at Meta @archieabrams , VP Product at Shopify @omarseyal , Head of Product, AI Search at Instagram @ngavini , former CPO at Pinterest @makavy , former CPO at Lyft @ShaunMClowes , CPO at Confluent @eugenewei , former CPO at Oculus, Hulu, Flipboard @jasoncosta , Sr. Director Product at Reddit Founders: @shishirmehrotra , CEO of Superhuman @bbalfour , Founder/CEO of Reforge @VanjaJosifovski , Founder/CEO of KumoAI, former CTO at Pinterest @catleecatlee & @smallchou , former bosses of mine at Pinterest and co-founders of Pace @rob, Co-founder of Ro @PameVls , Founder/CEO of Musa @IAmBrandonTerry Founder/CEO of Village @dmccartney Co-founder of ScoutFM Growth Leaders: @ElenaVerna , Growth at Lovable @brianhale, Chief Growth Officer at Doordash @fishmanaf , Growth and Product Advisor Darius Contractor, Chief Growth Officer at Otter @luclevesque , former Chief Growth Officer at Shopify @dannieb , Head of Growth Engineering at Coinbase @micahmoreau , SVP Growth at Hims & Hers @sri_batchu , former CMO at The Real Real @HilaQu , Former VP Growth at Gitlab @eusden , formerly Growth at Pinterest, Alto, Faire Operators: @danhockenmaier , Chief Strategy Officer at Faire @jluan , Head of AGI SF Lab at Amazon @lieber, former COO Postmates, CBO Shippo Morgan Hughes, former CFO at Cambly, VP Finance at Airbnb and Grubhub @mckenzielock , GM Content Platform at Netflix Ali Behnam and Michael Morell at Riviera Eddie Hsu, Head of TPM, Android at Google Jeffrey Chang, Product at Adobe Benjamin Huh, Assistant General Counsel at Crowdstrike Investors: @lennysan , Author of Lenny’s Newsletter & Lenny’s Podcast @HarryStebbings and @Kieranleehill at20VC @kevinakwok , Partner at Sutter Hill @mercebent , Co-founder at Premise @Chengdavid923 , GP at Coreline Ventures @tkendall, founder at Common Metal and former President at Pinterest @NikkiFarb , Founder at Power of N @ngoel & Amr Al-Shihabi at Karman Ventures Mei Z. @ikirigin , Founder at Tango VC We’re just getting started.

@rishabhmjain We built this internally at SuperMe as have many other startups, but I also expect Claude to have it this year.

I disagree .... I am just waiting for claude to have a shared space.... and then I'll stop logging into slack for internal comms I suspect < 3 months

@saranormous What's the buyin? My poker night got canceled Friday.

@kevinakwok dude why did you remind me of this?

Poor agents going to experience the canonical ride home from tennis tournament parents asking you “what do you think you did wrong in the second set” “I choked and started overthinking”

@crystalwidjaja Roasted

@onecaseman only if you show up more than 3 minutes before our next live cohort guest session 😮‍💨😤

showing up early on Zoom so i can practice crowd work for my comedy career after ai takes my job

@mercebent Voice actually got super popular during mobile with normal people around the world. There is definitely some new use cases there with AI e.g. voice for coding, companions, meeting recordings.

The only new land invented by generative AI so far is "Voice" Musically founder Alex Zhu's interview was concept that you need "new land." Casey framed it super well. I think voice is the only new land because it's creating tons of structured data from unstructured voice content before.

@joulee Like this framing a lot

The art and excellence of growth Most companies think growth means running more experiments. DoorDash Chief Growth Officer Brian Hale sees it very differently. When I asked him what separates excellent growth teams from okay ones, his answer surprised me. Excellent growth teams are not obsessing over A/B tests or marketing channels. They’re obsessing over every moment a customer hesitates. At DoorDash, for example, customers sometimes hesitated to place an order because they were worried about delivery fees. Even when the app already offered zero delivery fees. As Brian put it: “We were like, ‘but there’s zero fees. What do you mean you’re worried?’” The problem wasn’t the offer; the problem was people didn’t know about the offer. And that lack of knowledge was a key growth lever. Most growth teams run experiments; the great ones hunt friction. Listen to our full conversation, and read up on my takeaways for the 7 biggest contrasts between okay growth teams and excellent ones after our conversation here: lg.substack.com/publish/post/1…

@baxendale_laura @philgcarter @SuperMeAI Deliberately not that. If the agent isn't doing something your user loves and engages with later, it's not going to be valuable.

@philgcarter @SuperMeAI @onecaseman Agentic growth loops, huh? Sounds like a polite way of saying "we're automating everything and hoping it works out." Seriously though, AI networking? Interesting times.

My podcast episode with @SuperMeAI CEO @onecaseman is live! Highlights: 1. How SuperMe is creating an AI professional network 2. Steps for building an AI native team and culture 3. Why Casey is betting on agentic growth loops Check it out on YouTube!👇 youtube.com/watch?v=I9q8YE…

@yrechtman Network effects can be in great shape with agents and agent networks if the handoff back to the human has a positive feedback loop the network can record. Otherwise, you might be convinced agent activity = human value, which is not necessarily the case. Not hard to measure though

Why the most important work comes from people who care about things nobody asked them to care about.

@8en Thanks Ben!

This article by @onecaseman is very useful for early stage consumer networks: caseyaccidental.com/p/zero-to-one-…

@RakeshSFNYC Indeed. Now that code isn't the bottleneck it turns out good ideas and clear thinking, not code, was always the bottleneck.

“Zero to one isn’t about building fast. It’s about pruning fast. You will try things that don’t work. The only question is whether you can recognize them, and whether you know what you’re protecting when you cut them.” -@onecaseman 1000x with vibe coding.

@RakeshSFNYC I would have done it that way for sure

@onecaseman Aren’t you always supposed to be in upper-right corner?

Someone made a great 2x2 based on my last article. Too good not to share.

@swyx @pitdesi I assume this is all Jeffrey Housenbold who runs the Mr. Beast company now. Former Softbank GP.

@pitdesi i know we’ll never get a straight answer but i’d love to know how much of this is him vs whoever his GM/business manager is. fantastic story if theres a star MBA running all this, unrelatable story if it’s all Jimmy haha

Wow- Mr Beast is acquiring Step, a mobile banking app for teens that had raised $175M, valued at $920M in 2021 Mr Beast is going to launch a finance-focused YouTube channel and promote the card that way- actually makes a lot of sense No price announced theinformation.com/articles/mrbea…