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Others: Why do you love startups?
Me: Bro I am so obsessed with building things and startups from a young age that my parents literally had Zuck’s photo on my 16th birthday cake!!!
Me: Bro I am so obsessed with building things and startups from a young age that my parents literally had Zuck’s photo on my 16th birthday cake!!!
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This is basically Oscars for Tech Twitter
(and shockingly i am in it hahaha, see cosign.co/awards/rising-…)
(and shockingly i am in it hahaha, see cosign.co/awards/rising-…)
Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
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Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
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it is literally opposite at exa
leave private jets, both the exa’s cofounders don’t even fly business class on work trips! only premium economy
mad respect
leave private jets, both the exa’s cofounders don’t even fly business class on work trips! only premium economy
mad respect
🚨 BREAKING : Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan caught using COMPANY MONEY for Private Jets flights.
Peter Thiel caught him red-handed using his investment money as a personal wallet.
Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's fund, discovered that Shayne had charged the following as company et flights
- apartment rent
- designer clothes
They immediately demanded a FULL REFUND
Shayne was forced to reimburse the money.
ICE and Founders Fund then teamed up to push for stronger financial controls
They were the one that forced Shayne to appoint a COO.
You remember Shayne's ChatGPT written tweet gleefully announcing the hiring of Collin McKinney Hill as COO ?
I called it extremely suspicious at the time. Turns out i was right, investors basically forced Shayne to hire him as a soft coup.
I don't know how long Shayne can stay in place when their main investors have lost confidence.
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non biased evals say exa is the best!
Exa has released Exa 3.0, scoring 80 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index in Dynamic Highlights mode, tying with Perplexity Search for the #1 spot
@ExaAILabs has released a new Dynamic Highlights mode to its Search API. Given a search query and its results, Dynamic Highlights t to return from each page within a shared budget
We benchmarked two Exa search types with Dynamic Highlights ahead of release: an upgraded auto mode, which balances search quality and speed, and a new lite mode, optimized for lower cost and latency. Both were evaluated using our Stirrup agent harness and GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) as the agent model
Key benchmarking results for Exa Search with Dynamic Highlights:
➤ Ties for #1 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index: Exa Search (auto, Dynamic Highlights) scores 80, level with Perplexity Search (medium) in the #1 spot, while Exa Search (lite, Dynamic Highlights) scores 79. On DeepSearchQA, auto (85.6 F1) and lite (84.9 F1) rank 1st and 2nd respectively, 4 to 5 points ahead of Perplexity Search (medium, 80.8)
➤ Reduces search calls and token usage: Exa Search (auto, Dynamic Highlights) uses 7.6 searches per task, the fewest of any Search API on the leaderboard, down from 9.4 with standard highlights. Tokens per task fall 47%, from 299k to 157k
➤ Reduces cost per task by 21%: Exa Search (auto, Dynamic Highlights) costs $0.066 per task, compared to $0.083 with standard highlights. Lite costs $0.044 per task, with both sitting on the cost vs. capability Pareto frontier. Exa Search is priced at $7 per 1k searches for auto and $4 per 1k searches for lite
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this is what my friends say about me
@mrsnhl @TheIshanGoswami I just say exa 3 times and he spawns out of nowhere 🤣
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There are people out there that think the Exa valuation is high, meanwhile there are people in SF literally begging to get in at premium prices through crazy gray market shenanigans
There are people out there that think the OpenAI/Anthropic valuations are high, meanwhile there are people in SF literally begging to get in at premium prices through crazy gray market shenanigans
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i joined exa at 0 million
today we crossed 100 million
next stop is 1 billion
today we crossed 100 million
next stop is 1 billion
Exa just passed $100m in annualized revenue.
We've grown almost exactly 10x per year for 3 years. We now handle 2 billion requests a month from 200k+ teams. And it’s still so early:
We predict agents will search 1000x more than humans by 2030.
Agents don't search like humans. x queries and want all the world's data, not just the web. We've spent 5 years building a search engine designed for them.
We now serve personal agents, AI labs, coding agents, GTM agents, really any agent. Exa gives these agents access to 100s of billions of web documents and tons of proprietary data.
Our customers are increasingly noticing that information is the bottleneck to agent performance. While the world seems close to perfect intelligence with models like Fable and Astra, we are very far from perfect information.
To our small but legendary team, thank you for getting us here, from engineering to research to GTM to ops.
To our customers, it is an honor to serve you. We have some exciting releases coming soon and can't wait to share them 🫡
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Jev raised $870 million at a $7.5B valuation, Series A led by A16Z
Insane
Insane
launched a model
accidentally served trillions of tokens a day
29.4% of the fortune 500 showed up
raised a really big series A from @a16z
it's been 3 weeks
we would like to sleep now
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i still remember when literally everyone on twitter was shitting on cognition for the launch demo being fake
but they proved that you can just ignore everyone, execute, and win so big that everyone shuts up
but they proved that you can just ignore everyone, execute, and win so big that everyone shuts up
Cognition went from $1M to $1B ARR in 24 months.
The launch demo got debunked.
They had no customers.
They cut the price from $500 to $20.
Then they figured out what actually worked, bought a company 5x their size in 72 hours, and got their own AI agent writing 90% of their code.
The full breakdown of how they built the enterprise machine, closed Goldman and the US Navy, and ran three funding rounds in 12 months:
venturestreet.substack.com/p/the-cognitio…
This one is worth the read.
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Ishan Goswami retweeted
The fastest way to achieve career growth is to join a company that's growing so quickly that promoting you into an impossible scope is a better option than hiring from the outside. Then, all you have to do is the impossible.
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i bet we see the next trillion dollar company in this new space of “general agents”
i see new launches almost everyday, instinct, muse, wabi, and now lucas
this is the next big thing!
i see new launches almost everyday, instinct, muse, wabi, and now lucas
this is the next big thing!
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It lives in your texts, learns your life, and prompts itself.
It books, pays, orders and checks you in. Usually before you’ve thought of it.
Overnight, it goes exploring for things your life could on iMessage and WhatsApp
meetlucas.ai
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