Sam Brunt
43 posts
Sam Brunt
@sambrunty
Co-Founder | Overmind | supervision for super-intelligence
Katılım Ağustos 2025
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Feels like a good time to re-share this one. Mega congrats @Sirupsen & team @turbopuffer. Cache money indeed!
whynowtech.substack.com/publish/post/1…
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"We got rid of our HR team.”
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow defended sweeping workforce cuts at Bolt—including a recent layoff affecting roughly 30% of employees—as well as his decision to eliminate the company’s HR team.
#FortuneWorkplaceSummit | bit.ly/3Rk2jkS
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Anthropic going to extreme lengths to nerf the @OvermindLab product launch
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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@frankterpo @cursor_ai @Thrads_ai @tavilyai @StrandVentures @OvermindLab @EarlybirdVC @10_15186775631 @davidgelberg @benln @pritamsoni_hsr What a quote from Steve Jobs. Going to have to wear a turtle neck next week 😄🤌🏻🤌🏻
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“Some people say, 'Give the customers what they want.' But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.”
- Steve Jobs
I am hosting a @cursor_ai AdTech Hack with Giorgio + Alexandra @Thrads_ai! 🤌
Thursday, 28th May.
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Last year I quit my job. I had a 1 year old, a 2 year old and a pregnant wife.
But now, at last, my decision has been vindicated.
Being made a LinkedIn Top Voice is the pinnacle of my career.
The doors that are about to be open up for me, the opportunities that are going to reveal themselves, the people who will want to be my friend.
Unfathomable.
Feeling truly blessed.
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Notes like this are the best part about starting a company:
Hello Brian & Dharmesh,
I joined HubSpot in March 2013 as one of the early DubSpot team and after 13 incredible years this is my last month. Many times I've heard Brian talk about building a company that your grandkids can be proud of. I am writing this email partly to give you an insight into the incredible impact you've had on my life and partly because I imagine it is difficult for your family to appreciate the impact HubSpot has had on so many like me. I hope you share this with your family.
I joined HubSpot at 26 yrs old as a Level 1 Sales Rep. I was early in my sales career, highly motivated and eager to learn. HubSpot gave me an opportunity I couldn't have imagined and I didn't fully appreciate until later. I worked hard, learnt fast and chased targets. I moved to Manager and later moved to Sales Director.
In January 2014, Nisha Anand joined as a Level 1 Support Rep. We met, fell in love and got married. She also worked hard, learnt fast and chased promotions. She is now a Principal Solutions Engineer on UK Corp.
Financially HubSpot has transformed our lives but it is more than that. Our friends are HubSpotters. At our Wedding there were tables of HubSpotters. There are family and friends in Leitrim and Belfast that still cannot explain what HubSpot does but they follow it in the news, check the stock price and ask us "what's happening at the big American company?". HubSpot is part of our life story.
At every step of our lives HubSpot has been there:
- We timed our Wedding so we could take our sabbaticals for our Honeymoon.
- We sold HUBS shares to buy our first home
- When Covid hit we continued progressing our careers working from home
- We used tuition reimbursement to up-skill and learn at Harvard, UCD and Oxford.
- We used the Temporary Mobility policy to work from London for 1 month during fertility treatment. It worked and we got pregnant.
- When our twins girls arrived 10 weeks early and spent a month in hospital, HubSpot supported us. I had 6 weeks for Paternity leave plus used my 2nd sabbatical to be there for my family
- My wife took 12 months of maternity leave plus her 2nd sabbatical and returned to continue progressing her career and recently triggered another promotion.
- We sold HUBS again to move into a bigger home.
My father tells me that I have spent one third of my working career at HubSpot. It is almost impossible to explain the impact HubSpot has had on my life. What an amazing company. I hope you and your family are incredibly proud of what you have built.
For the rest of my life I will be grateful to you and HubSpot.
Wishing you and your family all the best in the future.
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Got ninety-nine problems but @cursor_ai ain't one.
Have been selected as @cursor_ai Regional Lead for Europe - top.
Next? Same attitude, at a larger scale :)
More tokens. More agents. More hacks. More 🤌
S/O @ftnabeelah @benln @sunrao.
LFG 🤌
GIF
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@alanchanguk Just emailed you on this. Have some ideas to get closer to 100% of reads at 100% accuracy whilst reducing costs even further
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AI is compressing the timeline to low-cost energy.
Since we’ve gone hardcore mode on AI:
- Half of our support tickets were resolved by AI
- Our AI meter reading agent now does straight through processing of ~70% of reads with ~100% accuracy
That is an immediate 1.5% reduction in total cost, freeing up 140 people to focus on harder problems.
Across the industry, roughly 25% of total energy costs are just paying for human labor. We are going to automate that premium out of existence.
We are building a core AI team, reporting directly to me. We’re redesigning every complex workflow from the ground up:
- Warehouse & electrician management
- Internal AI agents for every team
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Introducing GTM Atlas, a map for modern AI GTM built with some of the best operators in the industry.
A free resource covering the full customer journey, from lead capture to expansion, with the systems thinking that scales with you.
Our first installation features entries from @ElenaVerna, @jamespastan, @kylecnorton, and more.
Plus a curated stack of perks from partners like @NotionHQ, @clay, @WisprFlow, and @meetgranola.
Start exploring: attio.ai/atlas
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"London is one of the greatest cities in the world, and outside SF the best place to come and build an AI company"
@MattEvantic, former @sequoia partner, and now running his own firm @EvanticCapital, on why London is a FANTASTIC place to live and build.
Great stuff with @TomMackenzieTV
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Seeing this all over. The efficiency and rationalization push is coming.
Initially it was just getting everyone to use AI all over. "Opus everything!"
Now the spend is material and companies will rationalize.
Anissa Gardizy@anissagardizy8
Uber's CTO told @LauraBratton5 that AI coding tools—particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code—has already maxed out its 2026 AI budget 📈 “I'm back to the drawing board, because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already,” Neppalli Naga said. theinformation.com/newsletters/ap…
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To be clear, number of tokens consumed will keep going up. A lot. But much cheaper tokens are available for most tasks.
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We added over $100M in net new ARR in Q1 2026
That’s our best quarter to date driven by enterprises deploying conversational agents across voice, chat, text and email. Proud to build with companies like DT, Revolut and Klarna as they transform how they communicate with customers
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