Charlie Warren

YC Visiting Partner, former CEO/Cofounder of Convex (acq by $TTAN), vertical AI, services, & industrials investor. Friend of the physical world. Dad.

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

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[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

@eve_bouff Gattaca!

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

@gusta99_eth Yep that’s precisely what I mean

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

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[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

@gusta99_eth It's a mix, depending on the type of recruiting (exec vs eng etc). Marketplace models still work, too.

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

@shcallaway SHERWOOD! thank you 🫶

[Insider @thisisinsider]

Drafted, led by Nicholas Donahue, secures $16M to revolutionize home design with AI. Backed by investors like Y Combinator and Pinterest cofounder Ben Silbermann, Drafted aims to simplify custom home creation. https://t.co/j9At0g5X4s

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

@DraftedAI is the most beautiful yet technical vertical AI product I've ever used. Aesthetics meets software. Congrats, @PrimalNick!

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

It’s never been easier to design your dream house.

Draw a shape. Define your rooms. Set your constraints.

@DraftedAI generates complete floor plans, elevations, and 3D home designs in seconds.

Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with https://t.co/XqC0LP5n3y.

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

@SawyerMerritt Oppenheimer

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

TIL pre AI SaaS in the physical world can still command a premium multiple

[Bloomberg @business]

Engineering software maker Autodesk has agreed to buy MaintainX, a firm focused on maintenance tools https://t.co/GiH9jPVs8q

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

https://t.co/cRwIIexCa9

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Founders must stop trying to building 2010-era businesses with 2026-era technology.

Don't try to rebuild Foursquare or Yelp.

Don't try to recreate Basecamp by 37 Signals with $10/mo SaaS pricing.

Don't underprice! If it works it's worth a lot more.

Don't be tempted to become "Tech enabled PE" with revenue tricks.

The rules of tech changed with AI. Play the new game.

[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

The biggest hack I’ve seen for founders to close deals faster: just show up.

Get on a plane, fly to their office, meet in person, bond with the whole team.

Instantly replaces weeks of zoom calls.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

I understand why we don’t want people to come to the US to be criminals, mooch on welfare, open learing centers and otherwise undermine the country.

But I don’t understand why we make it harder for motivated, ambitious, hardworking people to come to the land of opportunity.

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

I am building a team.

If you're really really really good at building stuff, design, filmmaking, writing, pushing the models to their limits, or just making people care about a product at mass, certainly reach out.

Let's collab + make stuff.

Details:

https://t.co/Xo4rlaBNld

[David Lieb @dflieb]

Founders overestimate how hard it is to become a top 100 expert on most subjects.

For most things you need to solve, there’s usually a very clear path: just go do the work, obsessively, and become friends with everyone else doing it.

[Tyler Bosmeny @bosmeny]

A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight

@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity

Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner

I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx

[jules @julesrosenberg]

5 things @farzatv does differently
> never checks email (his agent does it)
> takes analog notes at the gym, turns them into apps
> uses screenshots and songs as inspiration
> built a personal wikipedia of his own life
> never scrolls X, uses @grok instead

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

Not 'close to the metal' -- actually metal.

[Kate Clark @KateClarkTweets]

Sequoia’s latest investment is a sheet metal fabricator
https://t.co/fzhDZcH8i2

[Charlie Warren @charliewarren]

One to watch 👀

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Transload (@transloadAI) measures freight with security cameras.

Shippers routinely misreport dimensions, costing logistics companies a fortune. Transload captures sizes in-motion, using only the CCTV already installed.

Congrats on the launch, @juliusscheel, @nilsboern, and @jagowahl!

https://t.co/Gz8Q3Cc9z3