Devan Baucom

Forbes calls Pump "The Costco for Cloud"
Reduce your AWS spend for free

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Former Apple engineer Anna Glass is working on opening Park Supply, a new coffee & goods shop in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood in early 2027

📍1858 Union St, San Francisco, CA

[Emily Bennett @emilybenn12]

Congratulations to the Vereda team on their US$6M Seed round! We’re excited to be part of the journey.

We see a significant opportunity to rethink how agricultural inputs reach farmers in Brazil. As the value chain evolves, AI makes it possible to build a more efficient operation from the ground up - and give sales teams more time to earn farmers’ trust and understand their needs.

That combination is what excited us about Vereda: the potential to pair the reach and efficiency of an AI-native business with the local relationships that drive this market. By putting AI to work across the operation, Vereda has an opportunity to serve more farmers with a more responsive, personal experience.

Congratulations to Joao, Pedro Galindo and the entire team. There’s a lot to build, and we’re proud to back you.

https://t.co/4gdAPHzla0

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@__kvm @generalcatalyst

[kvm @__kvm]

some personal news: I’m resigning from @generalcatalyst effective immediately after being robbed of the halloween costume award for the fourth year in a row

[Alex Shan @alexshander03]

Today, @JudgmentLabs opens for general access.

We believe long running agent systems will generate more exhaust data than the world can currently process.

Hidden within agent traces are rich records of how to make these systems better: what users ask for, when agents stumble, and how agents interact with the external world.

Judgment is the most performant monitoring and improvement layer for long-horizon agents.

We’re excited to see what you build!

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

Zelda is different than I remember......

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

Model routing is getting a lot of attention because it's the easiest AI cost optimization play to understand, but it's just a small part of a much bigger story.

Expensive models for hard stuff, cheaper models for easy stuff. Yup, makes sense.

But AI spend is becoming complicated (and high!) enough that companies need an actual strategy around it:

- Prompt caching to reuse outputs or portions of prompts
- Batch processing to run jobs at more cost-efficient times
- Reducing input-token volume before prompts are processed
+ Budgets, guardrails, better pricing, etc.

All of this would've seemed like overkill when AI was just a fun little experiment, but it's not anymore. It's become a legit infrastructure cost that's getting more and more expensive each month.

"What model should we use?" is an important question, don't get me wrong.

It's just only one of dozens you need to ask.

DMs are always open if your cloud or AI bill is getting scary and you want another set of eyes.

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@bryan_johnson 1. does it have 5 mins to hop on a quick call?
2. does it have 5 mins to hop on a quick call?
3. does it have 5 mins to hop on a quick call?

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@thrluv ohhhh so that's why they're called computer chips

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@bankertobuilder teaching them that difficult things (parking in a busy Costco lot) lead to great rewards ($1.49 hot dogs) >>>

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@NickAbraham12

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@hibanoorie person on the right is looking at the person to the left, but the person on the left is looking at her widescreen monitor that's out of frame to see if she she needs to temporarily take over for her GrokBot to finish its task

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@james406 i've started hearing reports of people using AI to do innately human things like reading to their kids and hopping on quick calls. scary times

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@67409_so a CRM-ready, deduped, fully enriched list of ICP-fit accounts with verified contact data, active intent signals, confirmed budget authority, and a 90-day buying window.

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

How I sleep knowing I will not have to use Microsoft Teams tomorrow because my company does not subject its employees to unsafe working conditions

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

We're hiring AEs in San Francisco!

If I were an AE looking for a startup right now, I'd care about two things:

1. Is the product in demand?
2. Is there still room to build?

Both of these are absolutely, unequivocally, 100% a yes for these roles.

The pitch is simple: AI and cloud spend is exploding, and we help companies pay less without sacrificing performance.

We've gone from $0 → $1B GMV in roughly three years, but we still prioritize scrappiness, so the best fits for this role are former founders or people who have built things before.

If that sounds like you, DM me. I'd love to talk.

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@bankertobuilder look at this future trillionaire hoarding finite resources

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@james406 i love this use case. i just asked mine what day we will celebrate Superbowl Sunday this year and it said "Sunday" 🔥

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@Austen agree, I went to an AI-native bake sale for the local elementary school this wekeend and it was very boring

[Devan Baucom @DevanBaucom]

@callmeed I was a "just leave" guy too, until i realize if you stay then they eventually send people to the room to kick you out, and if you stay long enough it'll be a lot of people, and then you get face time with a sizeable audience to demo your personal AI assistant workflows 👍🏻