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It’s Demo Day. Joined by: - @garrytan (YC) - @harjtaggar (YC) - @sdianahu (YC) - @h_ayes (Meta) - @lukeburgis (Cluny) - @agansca (Knotch) - @startupandrew (Tasklet) - @cybermetheus (Eden) - @hpafrisk (Tenet) - @rhs (9 Mothers) - @ET_adialante (Adialante) - @akshaytree (Madrone)
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YC Demo Day Lightning Round, New Snap AR Glasses, SpaceX Rips x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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.@paultoo's "$100B question" challenges YC founders to think beyond their first $100M in revenue and envision what it would take to build a $100B company. YC Managing Partner @harjtaggar says the question reveals how much ambition and long-term vision founders in the batch
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YC Managing Partner @harjtaggar says many young founders are still too conservative with token spend and advises them to not skimp on token budget. "Token spend is more like rent. You don't say, 'I'm not moving to San Francisco to build my tech startup because the rent's
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"I wonder if AI is contributing to contagion and mimesis in a way we don't fully understand." — @lukeburgis "@tferriss was talking about how he had an 80% drop in sales of his books. And it coincided with 2022, when ChatGPT came out." "He was asking why somebody would read
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NEW blog post is up! "Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future" My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious:
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Jordi: "Everyone's been talking about the 1-person, $100M-revenue company, but there's a much stronger incentive to just hire the incremental person." "Do you want to be the company that gets an award that doesn't matter, or do you want to win?" "It's not even a real award.
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Y Combinator's @garrytan says he wants his new project GBrain to be the Postgres for agents: "The thing I realized is, a human can only keep 7, plus or minus 3, things in their head. But a computer with an LLM can keep about three Harry Potter books in its head." "Then, when
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Humans can keep 7 +or- 3 things in their head Your AI agent can keep 3 whole Harry Potter books in context You could have 300,000 books in your library GBrain will make sure your AI agent has the 3 books out of 300,000 loaded in context for your task presently Big unlock
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YC's @garrytan explains why now is the time for young founders to go into hard tech: "With AI, everything is open. It's so much easier. You can do mechanical engineering, electrical engineering. If you don't understand it, you can [still] build it... We're in a new age."
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"Emil Michael and our friends in the Trump administration are changing everything. It's a new Department of War." @garrytan says the admin is making real strides toward dismantling the cost-plus procurement structure to the benefit of leaner, faster, more innovative firms:
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Today we interviewed @ycombinator Demo Day founders. Here's what the batch is building:
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