Vijay Pathak

@far33d @speedrun Thank you Fareed !! Love working with you and the speedrun team 🚀

Vijay @vjplux is exactly the type of founder we are looking for at @speedrun - extreme hustle, big vision, and just a solid dose of unreasonably high expectations for the future and what is possible.

@JoshArnoldOH Thank you so much @JoshArnoldOH ! Just getting started….

Awesome vision. Extraordinary founder. Vijay is on to something big @vjplux

@Chen So awesome. Thank you a million @Chen and the @speedrun team !!! We’re just getting started !! 🚀🚀🚀

A cold email can change the trajectory of your life. This is Vijay's story. Applications for SR007 Close this Sunday.

@kenanhsaleh ‼️🚀

Proactive AI Agents Today’s AI products are reactive. You give the model a prompt, it responds with an answer. These are useful, but I’m excited about products that take this further and shift the paradigm from “ask → answer” to “observe → act." These agents will continuously monitor context in the background across all of your connected tools and data, predict what matters, and take action before being asked to do so – much like a human does. So instead of you prompting the model, the model will start prompting you. Examples here could include agents that remind you about tasks you forgot to complete, resolve customer issues before support tickets are filed, or debug and ship code fixes automatically. This shift represents a new paradigm where AI products behave more like humans and less like tools. We’re already starting to see this dynamic with products like OpenClaw, Poke, and more - and we’ve only scratched the surface of capabilities here. We’re accepting applications for the next cohort of @a16z @speedrun – If you’re building the next generation of AI products, apply online.

@custo_lejla 🚀🚀🚀

We’re entering a world of infinite output. AI can generate code, designs, and create even entire product roadmaps in seconds. Building is getting cheaper by the day. But judgment isn’t. It’s no longer about who can produce more. It’s about who can decide better. Taste and discernment isn’t just aesthetics. It’s: - Cutting a paragraph that sounds smart but says nothing - Knowing which slide to delete, not which one to add - Choosing the one priority that actually moves the needle And ignoring the flood of “good suggestions” that dilute focus. The hardest part of most white-collar work isn’t generating options anymore. It’s choosing well. And yet most tools optimize for speed and volume, not helping people get better at deciding. I’d love to see startups building toward products that help individuals train better judgement over time. What would it look like to create: - Tools that train people to attach real probabilities to their beliefs - and see, over time, where they tend to overestimate or underestimate - Systems that can make decision-making visible, trackable, and improvable - Tools that train you to prioritize ruthlessly, that is to pick the few things that matter - and get comfortable killing the rest In an age of infinite leverage, leverage without taste creates noise. I’m especially excited about founders building products that strengthen human discernment. In a world of abundance, discernment is the scarce asset. If you’re building here, DM me and let’s talk!

@Chen @speedrun the 🐐🚀

every early-stage startup needs attention. your weekend vibecoded website isn't cutting it you watch videos but don't know how to make one 'new media' seems distant, inaccessible you can't tell your story, so others won't either. here at @speedrun we've designed brand, story, and launch programs to help fix this. if you're still considering applying, I'd love to work with you later this year. DMs always open to founders or creatives looking to work with us.

@far33d 1000%. Everything inverts.

Agent-native products are coming. Every product on the internet was built for a human with eyes, a cursor, and a credit card. Agents have none of those things. Most companies are teaching agents to pretend to be humans. That's a hack. The real opportunity is products designed for agents from scratch. Everything inverts: • Discovery → protocol registries, not ads and billboards • Trust → machine-readable reputation, not brand • Onboarding → full capabilities upfront, not a narrow slice • Payments → spend authorization, not checkout flows • Retention → zero. Agents switch between API calls. 30 years of human product design. Day one of agent product design.

@tmhammer @speedrun easy being 🌎 when you’ve got @tmhammer in your corner 🚀

30 of the 70 companies in our last @speedrun batch had founders born outside the US and if we keep doing our job – and we will – that number is only going up: * founders building products + teams internationally * builders stuck in an H-1B job ready to accelerate their slope * students here on F-1 who are ready to take a shot at their startup idea Speedrun Global Founders is our answer >> our end-to-end approach to guiding founders through visas, customs, housing, banking, and building local SF community, while enabling founders from all over the globe to participate in Speedrun we also have the coolest hat in venture - maybe thats a lame flex, but i honestly challenge you to show me better vc drip you might catch a few of our founders wearing them today. come through Global Founders and I’ll bring you one 🫡 -apply below my friends-