Will Kenney
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Will Kenney
@willkenney
growth @turbopuffer / prev @insightpartners @schmidtfutures @stanford
NYC Katılım Ağustos 2011
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We're running eleven consecutive hackathons with a combined prize pool of over $240,000.
It's called ElevenHacks. Here's how it works.
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🆕 The Future of Search: AI Agents, RAG, and Why Retrieval Still Matters
latent.space/p/turbopuffer
@turbopuffer started with a painful realization: a recommendation feature would cost ~6x a company’s entire infra bill. Since then, @Sirupsen has helped @cursor_ai cut costs by 95% and bought dark fiber for @NotionHQ. From nearly a decade of Shopify infra scars, Simon is building one of the most interesting search companies in AI.
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a work of art by my favorite freaks in the biz @DevinLewtan and the @turbopuffer team
turbopuffer.supply
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Excited to bring together a group of technical builders alongside @modal @turbopuffer @tryramp in NYC on March 30
Join us to chat re scaling up AI agents leveraging infra with exceptional developer love - Modal’s sandboxes and turbopuffer’s serverless search 🚀
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GM. @turbopuffer is that good. Try it. @Sirupsen and co are genius.
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when i was younger i didn't understand why people publicly came out as gay, or made it part of their identity. it wasn't until i truly internalized that seeing successful gay people made it easier for me to come out.
shame on you wired.
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queue.json on object storage is all you need to build a reliable distributed job queue
→ FIFO execution
→ at-least-once delivery
→ 10x lower tail latencies
tpuf.link/queue
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what if we dove into search infrastructure together under the fish?
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turbopuffer is the secret sauce of our gtm knowledge base. such an amazing tool and team
Cameron Archer@_iamperegrine_
turbopuffer is not core infra for Vercel, but the GTM engineering team is puffing hard. Just a high-agency engineering team choosing the right tool and shipping. When I spoke with Drew, he mentioned he appreciated turbopuffer's "intellectual honesty" - we're clear about guarantees, tradeoffs, and limits from the moment you land on our homepage. In the spirit of that intellectual honesty, we added a visual system to our customer logs: Customers like Cursor, Notion, and Linear who use tpuf as core infrastructure are marked as "core", whereas customers like Vercel who use tpuf for a single team or feature are marked as "auxiliary". We're not trying to impress you with a vague logo wall featuring a bunch of hyperscalers who did a PoC. We're clear about who is puffing in prod and who is puffing for projects.
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Cursor has a huge indexing pipeline. big repos were taking too long to index for semantic search
they cut index time for massive repos from hours to seconds using tpuf's `copy_from_namespace` aided by some clever hashing
btw, we're working on an api to make this even faster
Cursor@cursor_ai
Semantic search significantly improves coding agent performance. For very large codebases, Cursor's indexing process is now several orders of magnitude faster. cursor.com/blog/secure-co…
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@Sirupsen do the battery pack heated socks come with the ottawa relocation package?
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to all the softies out there who aren’t running in this weather due to equipment skill issues (-22C/-8F here):
* Get hiking shoes with grip and gaiters (Arc’Teryx makes good ones)
* Hooded mid-layer
* Air through buff
* Battery pack heated socks (very optional, but comfy, have mine from hunting)
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This is indefensible. The victim’s legally owned handgun was removed from the scene, and then ICE agents shot him multiple times. It’s far from law enforcement — it’s just murder.
Those who defend this don’t care about law or order. It’s about money, power, and protecting an executive branch that’s already been bought and paid for.
OSINTdefender@sentdefender
Third angle of today’s shooting of a 37-year-old male by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, clearly shows one of the agents running away from the scuffle before the shooting carrying the victim's handgun, a Sig P320.
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few changes at tpuf:
@pushrax (cofounder) has taken over product
@nikhilbenesch is now CTO
@natevanben is now Chief Architect
congratulations to these 3 legends.
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Picked up the keys to the @ConceptVC_ new HQ in London today
We're opening a physical home for our team, portfolio, and the next generation of founders to build from.
2025 was a landmark year for Concept - closing Fund II and watching portfolio companies like @elevenlabs create entirely new categories.
In the year ahead, we will deploy roughly £10M into ~12 teams - all when companies are little more than a Concept.
We operate with two simple rules:
It is never too early. Whether it’s Day 1 of the year or Day 0 of your journey. We don't need a polished deck or recurring revenue. We like the messy, high-conviction "just an idea" phase.
Europe to Global. We are looking for founders based here, but building for the world.
If you are obsessed with a problem and ready to build, let’s chat
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the way that @turbopuffer started late but overtook Pinecone and ripped out 4-5m ARR contracts needs to be studied in devtools harvard business school case studies
Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social)@andy_pavlo
Here is my latest article on the world of databases: cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20… All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the world!
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