Hugo Sánchez-G Sierra

Head of Finance and building next platform for automating all DD in M&A 🇪🇸 I love cars and golf

[Placido Domingo @PlacidoDomingo]

¡Bienvenido Santo Padre a mi ciudad natal de Madrid @ComunidadMadrid y a mi país 🇪🇸! @PlacidoDomingo @VaticanNews

[Hugo Sánchez-G Sierra @HugoSanchezW12]

@AroraBhavyam @ycombinator Same!!

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

The venture model that dominated the last 5 decades is over.

Numena lets founders raise directly from accredited investors. Startups keep 100% of the capital they raise and investors can trade their shares on an attached secondary market.

Numena is raising their seed round on their own platform to prove it works.

The stock market for startups is finally here.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Google for Startups @GoogleStartups]

Unlock the power of autonomous workflows with Startup School: Agentic AI.

Join @GoogleCloud experts to discover how to build, deploy, and scale sophisticated #AIagents that drive real business impact. Ready to innovate? Register here ➡️ https://t.co/QzUDNTjYzt

[Ksenia Moskalenko @kseniam0s]

Anthropic dropped a guide on building AI startups and it’s actually worth reading.

The premise: founders who have never written a line of code can now build real companies. No need to bloat your team; you can get by with a lean operation. They’ve put together a guide on how to build AI-native startups. Obviously using @claudeai tools. How else? 🤣

➡️ Link to the guide: https://t.co/4VgM9otuHP

The guide breaks it down into 4 stages:
- Idea
- MVP
- Launch
-Scaling

Covering how to validate hypotheses, track product-market fit, build a product matrix, and avoid the most common failure modes. Real startup stories included.

Give it a read, won’t hurt 🫶🏻

[Tancrede @Tancrededib]

founders outside of the US

what's your edge ?

if it's strong, i'll send you a plane ticket to join our founder house in SF for 2 months

[Hugo Sánchez-G Sierra @HugoSanchezW12]

@Tancrededib Built and lived the pain, my company was the buyer in a real acquisition, paid several figures for DD that was months of pure manual grunt work. Now building M&AVERICK: agentic swarm that runs full Legal+Financial+Tax DD in hours. MVP ready and working 😃 Already applied!! 🙌

[Hugo Sánchez-G Sierra @HugoSanchezW12]

@MartinGTobias Absolutely agree.
That’s why we’re building M&AVERICK!

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

The best founders solve problems they've lived.

Not problems they've read about.

[Hugo Sánchez-G Sierra @HugoSanchezW12]

@brettcalhounn 😄😄 DM sent!

[Brett Calhoun @brettcalhounn]

The best bets aren't sexy or mainstream. Where is no one else building?

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

росіяни уйобки користуюся своєю єдиною перевагою, яка у них лишилася — балістикою.
Це не врятує росію. Вона вже горить.
Вона буде горіти більше.
Україна переможе.

СМЕРТЬ РОСІЙСЬКИМ ОКУПАНТАМ!

[Hugo Sánchez-G Sierra @HugoSanchezW12]

@benln DM sent! 😃

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions."

— Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work

https://t.co/AyIk5fnKZL

[xIA @xiathis]

En vez de 2 horas de Netflix esta noche, mira esta clase magistral de 40 min del fundador de una empresa china de IA valorada en más de $20B

La explicación más clara que he visto sobre enjambres de agentes y sistemas de IA a gran escala.

[Corti 🚀 @cortijc]

Arnau tiene 25 años. Ha pasado por YC. Va de 300K a 10M en un año. Y lo más interesante no es eso.

Lo más interesante es que apostó por un modelo que todo el mundo le decía que estaba equivocado. Cuando Arnau Ayerbe García y su socio Pablo Jiménez de Parga Ramos fundaron throxy (yc p25), el consejo unánime era: "Hazte SaaS o muérete".

Las empresas de servicios no escalan. No tienen los múltiplos de un SaaS. No atraen inversión.

Él les dijo que no.

Y apostó por algo que llamamos "Service as Software": cobrar por resultados, no por licencias. Cada reunión de ventas que consiguen para sus clientes tiene un precio. Sin techo de facturación. Sin desalineación de incentivos.

El razonamiento es simple: si los modelos de IA seguían mejorando al ritmo que estaban mejorando, iban a superar a los humanos en tareas repetitivas. 

Entonces, ¿para qué construir software que el humano tiene que usar, si puedes construir el servicio directamente?

Arriesgar contra el consenso del mercado requiere convicción. Pero también requiere haber visto algo que los demás aún no ven. Arnau venía de investigación en JP Morgan trabajando con GPT-2 y BERT. Vio la curva. Entendió que los modelos no iban a dejar de mejorar. Y tomó una decisión empresarial basada en esa lectura del futuro.

Podcast completo en 

Spotify https://t.co/5pUwT9co1D

YouTube https://t.co/HyGRyXRFZh

[Tancrede @Tancrededib]

Early founder signals I trust more than resumes

S tier:
>gets in rooms they weren't invited to
>fails often but wins big
>people follow them without a title
>has a weird specific obsession nobody else has

A tier:
>builds for fun
>sold stuff online
>creates > consumes
>contrarian

B tier:
>good storyteller
>learns new tools on their own

C tier:
>good resume
>good school
>good titles

D tier:
>"passionate about entrepreneurship"
>"strategic thinker"
>perfectly formatted CV, nothing built

[Sherwood @shcallaway]

Fundraising at the seed and pre-seed stages is about storytelling.

- Who are you?
- What are you building?
- Why are you building it?
- What's different?
- Why are you the right person to do this?
- Why is it going to get really big?
- What has changed?

One of the big mistakes that I see first-time founders make is over-fixating on revenue instead of trying to create the most compelling story possible.

It's much more important to get a customer that LOVES your product and validates your hypotheses about the world and the future than it is to demonstrate revenue growth - especially if that growth involves small absolute values over a small time window.

Investors will fund you based on the quality and credibility of your story. Nothing else matters at this stage.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence."