Bertrand Nembot

CEO @BilldrHQ building the operating system for SMB General contractors | Prev: @Uber, @branch_co

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

L’équipe !

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

@antoinenivard @elonmusk @ilyasut @karpathy @ch402 @gc @zatlyn your chart x-axis is wrong on the right, it’s supposed to read All Canadian founders (not VCs). Also it’s not "30x more" it’s "13x more founders based in Canada": 8600 / 622.

anyways your message is directionally the same.

[immad @immad]

Some non-obvious traits you need to be an entrepreneur:

1. Unrealistically optimistic
2. Calm + resilient + decisive under crisis
3. Conviction in your ideas regardless of popular opinion

Hard to show up every day regardless of obstacles without these attributes.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Do great work. Focus on doing great work.

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

Grateful to our customers, employees and investors for believing in our mission. Time to build :)

Read more on our journey here: https://t.co/CAag2KtFvm

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

Proud moment for our team at @BilldrHQ . We just raised USD $3.2M, led by @WhiteStarCap , @onewayvc , Desjardins Capital to build what the construction industry has needed for a long time:
a modern, AI-native operating system for SMB general contractors and home builders (SMB GCs).

[Billdr @BilldrHQ]

Great news, Billdr has raised $3.2M to accelerate our mission: building the AI-native operating system for SMB general contractors (GCs) and home builders!

The round is led by @WhiteStarCap , with participation from @onewayvc , Desjardins Capital, asterX, & Formentera Capital.

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

Today, hundreds of GCs overseeing thousands of construction workers rely on Billdr PRO to run more efficient operations. Over 1B in construction projects flow through the platform annually. We're still very early in our journey.

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

@VirinderKudhail @a16z @eriktorenberg Congrats brother! Time to build 💪🏾

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"I ran a startup for 5 years. I thought we moved fast. Then I joined OpenAI—and realized I had no idea what fast actually meant."

Head of Product for @OpenAI's Codex @embirico and I chat about:
🔸 How OpenAI built the Sora Android app (which hit #1) in just 18 days by using Codex
🔸 Codex growing 20x since August
🔸 How they're thinking about the dev bottleneck shifting from coding to reviewing AI-generated work
🔸 Why coding will be a core competency for every AI agent—because writing code is how agents use computers best
🔸 Why the bottleneck to AGI-level productivity isn’t model capability—it’s human typing speed
🔸 The vision of Codex, and how they plan to win

Listen now 👇
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[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

This post is so good. It resonates a lot with our journey at Billdr.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

How to Keep Winning

https://t.co/cfUFTlDctk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Much, much harder to be a quarterback than an armchair quarterback

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

@ZoellaBolkiah Investors seek companies solving impactful problems with large TAMs, with competent founders at the helm.

Interning at Uber or any other big tech companies gives a (small) signal of competence. It’s helpful but only a small part of the investment decision.

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

Will & Amr are the type of early stage investors you want in your corner: straight to the point (no sugar coating), well connected, expertise rooted in years of operational experience at Uber.

Founders, you’ve got a value added partner in Karman.

[William P Barnes @williampbarnes]

I am proud to announce that we have closed our oversubscribed $40M Fund.

https://t.co/7XyNfRtQ2R is a venture firm designed to serve founders who are building the next generation of AI-native companies.

We are deeply optimistic about the future and believe AI will have a profoundly positive impact on society.

We built the firm founders told us they wanted: move fast, commit early, and actively support with hiring, customer introductions, and follow-on fundraising.

Our LPs include 10+ decacorn founders, 10+ GPs from leading later-stage firms, and a 6,000+ person alumni talent network from iconic tech companies.

By bringing them together, Karman’s goal is simple: to put our collective experience and networks to work in service of the founders we partner with.

How we invest
• Pre-seed and seed
• $100K–$500K checks
• Often the first check

Areas of interest
• AI application layer
• AI infrastructure + developer tools
• AI modernizing core industries (healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, finance)
• Embodied AI
• Founders advancing the American national interest (American Dynamism)

[Naval @naval]

Plan as if you were going to live forever, act as if you were going to die tomorrow.

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

I will never delete this app

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

LET HIM COOK! 😤

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Michael Ovitz on momentum

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

A productive Monday morning.

I helped my dad connect his printer via Whatsapp video while lifting weights. He was impressed.

He called me his "personal IT guy 5,000km away".

I felt useful and proud.

[Jean de La Rochebrochard @2lr]

Until you're 10+ in a startup , the only roles that exist are head of get shit done & chief common fucking sense officer.

[Bertrand Nembot @BNembot]

ChatGPT prompt:
Let’s do an economic simulation. The context is an economic trade war between the US and Canada. Both countries put 25% tariffs in place. Give me your assessment on the impact on both economies over 12 months. Include Game theory in your analysis. Who’s going to flinch first?

Response: