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building @frontrunvc | finding startups early

[JG @jongall45]

https://t.co/olAjye1S2u

[JG @jongall45]

imagine your X timeline was only new startups your network just followed.

find the founder. DM them. without ever leaving the feed.

would you want this? @frontrunvc

[JG @jongall45]

@figo_saleh @frontrunvc 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

imagine your X timeline was only new startups your network just followed.

find the founder. DM them. without ever leaving the feed.

would you want this? @frontrunvc

[JG @jongall45]

@0xwillthetrill @frontrunvc

[JG @jongall45]

@jakub_rusiecki @colosseum @ClayRobbins @mattytay @n8levine hell yeah - congrats! 👏

[frontrun @frontrunvc]

VCs are just now asking to fund companies that help teams own and build their own models.

we wrote about this on july 30th. 10 startups, all flagged on @frontrunvc.

here's 5 more flagged on @frontrunvc since then 👇

1. @orchestradotai = trains specialist models on your team's own work.
→ founders @lluismanrique @aamirpoonawalla. @ycombinator S26

2. @explabsai = open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into a model you own.
→ founders @silennai - @ycombinator S26

3. Zorbe = company-owned models across text, vision, speech and video.
→ founders @yash_iyer21 and @SadaniPranay.
@speedrun 007

4. @bryel_labs = your in-house AI lab.
→ founders @KJHMiao - @ycombinator F26

5. @riften_ai = routes every AI request and builds the models your company owns.
→ founder @carlstauffer_ - @ycombinator S26

[JG @jongall45]

@Nic_Wenzel_1 @frontrunvc yes indeed 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

1 year ago i made my first github contribution

never written a line of code in my life before that

6.5k+ contributions later i'm running a software business that makes money (@frontrunvc)

for all the doomers saying ai will take jobs, it's also creating new ones that never would've been available to someone like me 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

checking in... rookie numbers still.

[JG @jongall45]

@huseyin1tekin @frontrunvc ty 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

@taylor_ @frontrunvc 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

@jackson_stokes 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

Good take @brian_armstrong

https://t.co/8NigtdcyWC

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

We were able to fine tune an open weight model (Qwen3.5-9B) on proprietary internal data at @coinbase, and it out performed frontier models, at much lower cost and speed, for a specialized task (fraud prevention in this case).

I think we'll see more of this pattern inside companies. The frontier models are amazing generalists. But increasingly you'll see specialist models out perform on more narrow tasks, either working on teams, or by themselves.

We're making it easy to fine tune models internally for our employees. We even have a skill for it in our internal harness that makes it easy to spin these up and start training them:

"/fine-tune-and-serve-llm I want to fine-tune Qwen for payments risk review. help me get started"

I imagine we'll have some backend services that could be replaced entirely by this new architecture.

[JG @jongall45]

@fewgoodcoins @frontrunvc @typesafeai @a16z 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

i made a visual of what @frontrunvc looks like under the hood.

@typesafeai just raised ~$870M led by @a16z at a $7.5B valuation.

@frontrunvc flagged it 96 days ago, at 40 followers.

40 followers to 165k. nobody watching to $910M raised.

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

launched a model

accidentally served trillions of tokens a day

29.4% of the fortune 500 showed up

raised a really big series A from @a16z

it's been 3 weeks

we would like to sleep now

[JG @jongall45]

@nickbakeddesign @tradetash built something similar for @frontrunvc but this looks a lot cleaner 🔥

[JG @jongall45]

@domdosu @dreaming siii

[JG @jongall45]

a 60 million dollar frontrun 🫡 @frontrunvc

[frontrun @frontrunvc]

$0 to $60M in 3 months. Everyone wants to know who it is.

it's @sfdata.

@frontrunvc flagged it 56 days ago & @kenanhsaleh was the first tracked account to follow.

founders, both ex-@mercor: @brandonguo @faizsiddiqii

apr 16: @brandonguo flagged
jul 17: 17 tracked accounts on the founder
aug 14: @sfdata flagged at 35 followers
oct 1: production traces and the future of data posted on their website
oct 7: $0 to $60M in 3 months tweet.
oct 8: its @sfdata 🫡

[JG @jongall45]

@sahildotcom maybe its just me - just grey button can't bet.

[JG @jongall45]

@sahildotcom you still can't trade any player prop combos at all - no liquidity.

[JG @jongall45]

escalator

[JG @jongall45]

@RatheeJaisal @frontrunvc