Jason

Chief Biz Officer @rhobusiness

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Sazabi is a next-generation observability platform designed for fast-moving, AI-native engineering teams.

If you're using Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, or Axiom today, you could be moving ten times faster with @sazabi.

Congrats on the launch, @shcallaway!

https://t.co/dpjfxXDxkR

[GV @GVteam]

AI is making it easier to build, but the consumer companies that stick will come from founders who understand people deeply.

On Venture Grounds with @JasonGrohowski, GV Partner @KJSidz shared thoughts on consumer AI today, adoption gaps, the benefits of constraints, and more.

[yoni rechtman @yrechtman]

Had a lot of fun on the @rhobusiness podcast with @JasonGrohowski talking about the second order effects of AI (what happens AFTER we token max) and the right way to back seed founders.

Full pod below:

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

Rho Close shipped today.

Your transactions are coded by @rhobusiness before you open the view. Built around your chart of accounts, your vendors, your history.

Review. Accept. Sync. Done.

Month-end used to be the thing founders dreaded most. We just made it a non-issue.

Go check it out.

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@rhobusiness LFG

[Max Mona 🇺🇸 @MaximilianMona]

https://t.co/hkkL890sET

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@everettcookny founders print with Rho Treasury

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@rhobusiness money

[Ryan Daniels @ryanjdaniels]

📣 Update: we raised our $60m Series B from @Lux_Capital, @IndexVentures and @01Advisors, with participation from @sequoia, @eladgil and @BainCapVC .

When we came out of stealth 283 days ago, we had negotiated contracts worth $30m for our clients. As of last month, that number is over $1 billion.

We work with the most ambitious companies in the world, including @tryramp, @clay and @RogoAI. Today, we want you to hear from some of them directly.

Contracts are the rails of commerce. @crosbylegal is a hybrid AI law firm that gets them signed 80% faster. We’re announcing our Series B to keep scaling the dream law firm.

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@rhobusiness LFG

[JC Bahr-de Stefano @jbahrdestefano]

Sat down with my guy @JasonGrohowski from @rhobusiness to talk pre-seed + seed fintech. A few things that came up:

1- Lead with problems & solutions, not with "AI"
2- Not every big opportunity is a startup opportunity
3- Parts of financial services will be automated, but not all of it
4- Investor updates are one of the highest-leverage things founders can do

Check it out! https://t.co/OigTihgtye

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@jbahrdestefano @rhobusiness been looking forward to this one dropping for a while!

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@ditzikow @southpkcommons Let's gooooo!!

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

Two episodes into Venture Grounds, and a pattern is already emerging.

Hunter Worland at @NEA and Abbie Strabala at @outlandervc come from different funds, different stages, different coasts.

But they’re circling the same idea.

Hunter put it this way: the era of generic, lowest-common-denominator products is ending. Your banking app shouldn’t look like mine. Your wealth management experience shouldn’t feel like everyone else’s.

Abby said something similar: there’s so much data about my preferences, yet no one really captures me. The technology exists to personalize everything. No one’s figured out how to use it.

Both are betting on the same shift. Products that treat every user as a segment of one.

Hunter sees agents as the unlock. Personalized financial advice that used to require walking into UBS, now available to someone three years out of school with student loans.

Abby sees it showing up in daily life. Why am I still manually adjusting my smart home settings when all the data is there to automate them?

Different entry points. Same destination.

The next generation of companies won’t optimize existing systems. They’ll rebuild them around the individual.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Access both episodes of the @rhobusiness pod over your next lunch break in the replies.

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@NEA Catch the full episode here: https://t.co/CMYsmeqSe6

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

First episode of Venture Grounds is out! I talked to @NEA's Hunter Worland, and three ideas are still stuck in my head:

1. Distribution vs. product is the wrong question.

The best companies design them together from day one. Hunter's example: a Brazilian remittance product built directly into WhatsApp, embedding stablecoin rails where users already send money.

2. AI agents kill generic experiences.

Most financial products are lowest-common-denominator by design. Everyone gets the same app, same flows, same outcomes. Agents create a path to market-of-one financial products at scale.

3. We've massively undershot what rewards could be.

Rewards default to points and flights, even though people stress about groceries, tuition, and medical bills. Incentives should be designed around real financial pressure, not travel perks.

We went much deeper on this in the episode, including where this breaks down and where it compounds. Find the full episode of the new @rhobusiness pod below!

[Sherwood @shcallaway]

It's been over a decade since "observability" became a software engineering concept, discipline, and product category.

Why does it still suck? 🧵

[Jason @JasonGrohowski]

@ditzikow @everettcookny @rhobusiness Brightest place in the world that night!

[Dylan Itzikowitz @ditzikow]

A few weeks back, @everettcookny, @JasonGrohowski, @rhobusiness & I took a group of early stage founders to Las Vegas for the F1 Grand Prix.

The best founders are the most competitive, so we took the group to bond at of the wildest spectacles in sports.

[Rho @rhobusiness]

Last week, our CBDO @JasonGrohowski sat down with @USV, @IntelCapital, and @BessemerVP to talk about defensible moats in the AI era.

What are the real moats in AI today? What milestones matter most when investing in AI companies? Which emerging AI trends today will define the next generation of breakout companies?

Jason’s biggest takeaway? "The teams that are winning - and the ones VCs are most interested in - are those that are using AI to cut through the noise to get a buyer to a person."