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Life update: dropping the "Visiting" — I'm joining @ycombinator as a General Partner 🤩
YC was my first choice as a founder in 2019. Seven years later, I'm choosing it again.
This past year, I got to come full circle: working with founders through the W26 and S26 batches, ideas into products people love.
I'm incredibly excited to keep finding founders and helping them build the iconic companies of this generation 🔥
YC was my first choice as a founder in 2019. Seven years later, I'm choosing it again.
This past year, I got to come full circle: working with founders through the W26 and S26 batches, ideas into products people love.
I'm incredibly excited to keep finding founders and helping them build the iconic companies of this generation 🔥
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My OpenClaw has scheduled airport transfers
My Instinct has renewed my driver's license
My Muse has purchased birthday gifts
My Dot has hired us an infant sleep coach
My Folk has looked for unclaimed money
And it all fricking works.
Folks, we truly made rocks talk 🤯
My Instinct has renewed my driver's license
My Muse has purchased birthday gifts
My Dot has hired us an infant sleep coach
My Folk has looked for unclaimed money
And it all fricking works.
Folks, we truly made rocks talk 🤯
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PhD teaches you time is cheap and money is expensive.
Startup teaches you the inverse.
Startup teaches you the inverse.
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I wake up, new personal assistant drops.
I wake up, …
I wake up, …
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.
It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
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Did a bunch of coffee chats with young builders in NYC.
Waaay underrated founder quality: Optimism.
Waaay underrated founder quality: Optimism.
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Raphael Schaad retweeted
Today, Notion AI gets some major upgrades. Introducing:
→ More capable Notion Agents
→ A smarter Auto (frontier results, 90% cheaper)
→ Bring your own AI (BYOK)
→ Improved Notion MCP
→ AI Command Center (coming soon)
→ A new credit system
Let’s get into it 👇
→ More capable Notion Agents
→ A smarter Auto (frontier results, 90% cheaper)
→ Bring your own AI (BYOK)
→ Improved Notion MCP
→ AI Command Center (coming soon)
→ A new credit system
Let’s get into it 👇
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Connected a model to my Spotify.
Asked it to analyze my taste.
"Nocturnal, rhythmic, and slightly off-center."
🦉🔊🤙
Asked it to analyze my taste.
"Nocturnal, rhythmic, and slightly off-center."
🦉🔊🤙
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Apple now feels like an appliance.
With AI, Linux feels like the Macintosh.
And OpenClaw feels like Linux all over again.
With AI, Linux feels like the Macintosh.
And OpenClaw feels like Linux all over again.
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Old to-do (circa 2021) from the very first 1,000 Cronboardings. Did each personally & learned so much.
Good draft language! (highlighted)
Everything starts small.
Good draft language! (highlighted)
Everything starts small.
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Just read about ~150 investor update emails this morning. Before my context window compresses …
… here's what the best startups do after the YC batch:
- Focus on growth. 'if grew last month, do <same>, else try <other thing>' This algorithm is simplified, but you get the idea.
- Have a through line month-to-month. Good founders reflect, push, learn constantly. Bad is when every update reads like a totally new set of goals/ideas.
- Write company updates in the first place!
… here's what the best startups do after the YC batch:
- Focus on growth. 'if grew last month, do <same>, else try <other thing>' This algorithm is simplified, but you get the idea.
- Have a through line month-to-month. Good founders reflect, push, learn constantly. Bad is when every update reads like a totally new set of goals/ideas.
- Write company updates in the first place!
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Raphael Schaad retweeted
Life update: dropping the "Visiting" — I'm joining @ycombinator as a General Partner 🤩
YC was my first choice as a founder in 2019. Seven years later, I'm choosing it again.
This past year, I got to come full circle: working with founders through the W26 and S26 batches, ideas into products people love.
I'm incredibly excited to keep finding founders and helping them build the iconic companies of this generation 🔥
YC was my first choice as a founder in 2019. Seven years later, I'm choosing it again.
This past year, I got to come full circle: working with founders through the W26 and S26 batches, ideas into products people love.
I'm incredibly excited to keep finding founders and helping them build the iconic companies of this generation 🔥
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Week complete.
Distance 108k · Time 9h · Elevation 1,134 m
Easy milage, Threshold intervals, Marathon pace.
Mostly Central Park, capping it in California.
Do hard things.
Distance 108k · Time 9h · Elevation 1,134 m
Easy milage, Threshold intervals, Marathon pace.
Mostly Central Park, capping it in California.
Do hard things.
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Get this: the union is protesting that "the regime could let companies offer stock options instead of wages" 🤦♂️
Simple & tax-efficient stock-based comp is the only way for young companies to incentivize their workers, and for workers to get outsized rewards.
Simple & tax-efficient stock-based comp is the only way for young companies to incentivize their workers, and for workers to get outsized rewards.
Protesting an EU-INC company law that doesn’t even exist yet because it might have downsides is peak European self-sabotage.
You want higher wages? Make Europe the best place in the world to start and grow a business. European founders still face 27 systems, endless friction and d too few reasons to build here instead of in the US.
These people spend their working hours and money fighting a potential reform. Try building a business here and see how hard it is.
We need an economy where successful businesses can grow – and workers can participate in that success (via higher wages AND stock options). #EUInc
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@ycombinator Special thanks to @bradflora and @snowmaker — it's been a ton of fun to work with you, learn from you, and help our W26 and S26 founders respectively.
I have no doubt that some of them will go on and become important companies and we'll fondly look back on these batches.
I have no doubt that some of them will go on and become important companies and we'll fondly look back on these batches.
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@ycombinator Read more: ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-v…
Thank you @garrytan and the whole YC team for the trust 🧡
Thank you @garrytan and the whole YC team for the trust 🧡
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Raphael Schaad retweeted
We’re excited to welcome @vivianmshen and @raphaelschaad as YC’s newest General Partners!
Vivian and Raphael first came to YC as founders.
Vivian co-founded Juni Learning (W18), which teaches kids coding and math, and later founded Acely, an AI tutor for college prep. Raphael founded Cron (W20), the calendar app that became Notion Calendar.
They built products used by millions of people, then returned to YC as Visiting Partners to help other founders. Now they're doing it full-time.
ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-v…
Vivian and Raphael first came to YC as founders.
Vivian co-founded Juni Learning (W18), which teaches kids coding and math, and later founded Acely, an AI tutor for college prep. Raphael founded Cron (W20), the calendar app that became Notion Calendar.
They built products used by millions of people, then returned to YC as Visiting Partners to help other founders. Now they're doing it full-time.
ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-v…
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