Worklife

We’re an early stage venture firm backed by the founders of Twitch, Spotify, Cameo, and YouTube. We invest in tools that make work more creative, flexible, and human. Early investors in @deel, @public, @supabase, @HightouchData, and your favorite tools at work.

Our team has been cooking with some help from artists, designers, and creatives using AI to shoot their shot with dream jobs and dream clients.

The cost of Co-founder Dating.

We’ve rebuilt our AI research tools from the ground up. Use the prompt bar on any asset page to explore 30 years of earnings, financials, real-time quotes, and options data. Ask anything, from broad market trends to deep dives like an asset’s fastest-growing revenue segments.

We've got Disney and Duolingo animators on the judge panel, you don't want to miss this one. 3 days left!

Over 400+ RSVPs for our first builders & creators night w/ @contra & @Replit’s President & Head of AI @pirroh. Our summer and fall lineup to be announced soon featuring @cursor_ai, @cognition, @floraai, @linear.

How do you make product decisions for 60M+ users? @Replit’s @pirroh on building for non-technical users: “Six months before that initial [agent] launch, the company was tiny—barely 60 people, almost exclusively technical folks. A few executives, the co-founders, our head of design. The vast majority of us were AI researchers and software engineers. So one of the first principles I kept repeating was: We’re not building this for us. Don't get excited about what we're building because you’d use it daily. Get excited because we're building something for people who've never written a single line of code in their lives—people who are going to have their first "aha" moment when their software runs for the very first time. As we grew, that became part of the company's DNA. Every designer we hire, every PM, keeps reminding us daily that this is the most important principle we follow. Our ideal customer is the knowledge worker—a group nobody else was really talking about, and it's worked well. There's a constant tension between design quality and engineering. Early on I struggled with it myself, because I spent my whole career on the technical side, with a fixation on moving fast and shipping as soon as possible—which the AI space forces on you anyway. Things move so fast that if you wait even a few days, your product is already deprecated. But over time I've learned to value the teams that pull the handbrake and say, "No, we need to take our time on user journeys, we need to do the interviews to understand whether this is actually exciting for our customer." That tension can feel like your startup is slowing down. In reality, it's exactly what keeps you on track.

Proud investor x2

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From the summit of Mount Everest, congratulations to @supabase To celebrate their $500M Series F and $10B valuation, we carried the Supabase flag to the highest point on Earth — 29,032 feet (8,849 m) up. 🏔️ Nearly 10 million developers now rely on Supabase, with database launches up 600% in the past year. Proud to celebrate this milestone with one of our incredible customers and cheer them on as they continue to reach new heights.

Hosting a night for builders & creators at the @contralabs_ai NYC office next week for a special discussion with @briannekimmel , Founder of @WorklifeVC and @pirroh, President & Head of AI of @Replit Founders, builders, designers, product leaders, developers, creators, and AI folks, this one’s for you luma.com/hu0eb20k

The vibes in NYC right now

a reminder that branding matters.

As we continue to bring generative AI founders and industry-leading creatives together under one roof, the room was buzzing at our last event in LA. 75 talented creatives from A24, Tim Burton Productions, Lucky Chap, Family Guy, and many of the most iconic TV & film franchises. Next up, we’re heading to NYC for some East Coast summer energy on June 19.

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Architects have adopted AI faster than other creatives thanks to this man… Resistance to AI within the field exists, but it’s becoming less common. Some of the architects who three years ago were commenting on his posts — *this is never going to get anywhere close to practicality* — are the same ones now posting about spatial dimensions and asking why a rendered building window details are slightly off.  The anxiety he encounters most often is about design itself: the part of the job that architects feel is irreducibly theirs. The worry is that using AI for ideation means outsourcing authorship. Amir's response to that is patient, almost therapeutic. "If you understand that there needs to be a correct direction—a very personal direction from you as the designer—so that this AI can execute on this project properly, then you understand: this is not AI that is designing the project. It is you." He pauses, then adds: "I call myself an AI therapist for architects. I'm there to tell them, hey. It's okay. You're not gonna go away."

With Deel, a company in NYC can now fund payroll in dollars and their employee in Berlin can receive it in stablecoins within minutes 🤯 On one platform, no workarounds. Stablecoin salary payouts are available for employees in the EU and US - the UK and LATAM are coming soon. You choose how to fund it. They choose how to get paid

Thousands of investors are using our AI Agents to automate sophisticated investing strategies. Here's a quick breakdown of the skills Agents can utilize on Public right now.

Something's being stitched together. Details tomorrow. 🧵

There’s a lot of hand-wringing right now about what AI will do to creativity. That it’ll flatten taste. Kill originality. Do away with the instinct to make something strange, specific, unforgettable. But the creatives actually breaking through right now tell a different story. The bar hasn’t dropped. It’s leveled up. Because when so much of what’s generated these days has an air of robot, the only thing that cuts through is work that feels impossible to replicate. Work with a point of view that makes you stop mid-scroll, knowing AI could never possibly have created what this human made. @ian___woods @szilvesztermako @ROMAIN_GAVRAS top of list of creative directors defining the era.