Daniel Li

🎉 We’re excited to announce the first public release of Plus (@plusdocs) — the easiest way to bring all of your team’s data wherever you need it.

@Jason I’m in

We started an AI founder twitter group... reply with "I'm in" if you're a founder and want to be added

So how often are you all getting baited by the new ChatGPT “if you want to know the 1 thing people will ask for” messages?

@sequoia they had earnings?!

In honor of 50 years of Apple, we're sharing - for the first time ever - Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer. #Apple50

Help me settle a debate with my team. Imagine these are graphs of your bank account balance over the course of your life. The ‘integral’ for each of them is equal. Which one would you choose?

It's always "why do consultants", never "how are consultants"

Plus AI is the easiest way to use Google's latest image model, Nano Banana Pro, directly inside of PowerPoint and Google Slides. Nano Banana Pro is really good at creating detailed diagrams and infographics with different visual styles. We're very excited to see how customers will use this (and how we can help them adapt their outputs to match their templates). Try it out and let us know what you think!

PowerPoint user after joining a Google Slides company

@byAmirHanna What is up with these numbers lol - 75K * 12 is not 1.1M - The orange bar is $100K+ so more than $1.2M ARR - There are no bars that show 50% growth Did I just get baited?

We entered YC with $16K MRR. 100% bootstrapped. Today, we’re at $75K MRR, a 4.7× increase in just 6 weeks ( and $1.1M in annualized run rate) and on track to double before the end of the year. It’s been wild watching Parrot evolve from a scrappy experiment into a product people genuinely love using daily. Every day, new users tell us the same thing: “It doesn’t feel like I’m studying. I’m just scrolling.” That’s exactly the point. We’re building the first language app designed for the way people actually spend time on their phones, swiping through short, entertaining videos. Except this time, it’s productive scrolling. We’re just getting started. The retention is improving, the love is real, and the growth is compounding. Super excited to keep talking to users and making Parrot 100x better.

Investment committee reading the deal memo you spent 850 hours on:

The greatest moment in consulting history.

How a consultant sees the world

@benhylak Lobsters are immortal 🦞

why is he getting so red and shiny and will it keep increasing?

2020 startups

Today we're releasing the Plus AI PowerPoint API - the first presentation API that generates native PowerPoint slides using your custom presentation templates.

@BryanOffutt @lizwessel i think this just means we are going back to that part of the cycle where numbers are meaningless

@lizwessel First we ignored the annual part. Then we ignored the recurring part. Now we ignore the revenue part. The dismantling of ARR has reached its final form.

New ARR trend im now hearing about: posting publicly about your epic ARR growth when it turns out all of your ARR is credits you gave away to customers, with none of them actually paying you dollars/revenue. Wild.

Important lesson to always invest $10K in your brother's company

i love when people share growth hacks on X, but also now this is the most annoying email to receive plz stop doing this

"Thanks everyone for your comments on the deck. Here is the updated copy with all of your edits"

@omooretweets @a16z @Daisy4ai Check out Plus AI if you need to create a PPT! Only tool here that creates native PowerPoint slides using your presentation templates

Are you using these AI tools to level up your workflows? 👀 The products we @a16z are seeing do real work for consumers, from drafting emails to building financial models👇

I built Plus AI because when I was a consultant at BCG, I realized that half of my time was spent doing crappy, mindless work - like formatting slides. AI can make your slides prettier. But it can't... - Sit next to health care call center employees to learn and document how a case processing system works - Spend a week flying to visit each call center to figure out why Site A agents are 60% more accurate than the agents at Site B - Design a new case process and get the political buy-in from executives in multiple organizations to invest in a process redesign - Convince dozens of skeptical managers that the new process is going to work - Physically train hundreds of employees on the new process in call centers across the country That's why I really don't think that AI is coming to steal consulting jobs anytime soon. Consulting is 80% discovery, interaction, and problem solving with clients. And not just with CEOs - it's figuring out how to work with everyone from the decision makers in the C-suite down to the guy in the cubicle who actually does the work. Sure, AI can make slides look pretty faster. It can summarize call notes faster. It can help you write slicker emails. But the real work (data gathering, framing the problem, shaping decisions, getting buy-in) is deeply human. The firms that win with AI won’t be the ones that replace consultants. They’ll be the ones that elevate consultants. Am I wrong? Is AI coming for the consultants?