Lachy Groom

it's pronounced locky. [email protected]. π.com

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

Since leaving Stripe I've been spending a lot of time helping friends, and friends of friends think through career decisions (and very often comp negotiations). It's something I really enjoy doing—if you know anyone who needs help, DMs are open and my email is in my profile!

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@John_PiazzaIV @regulatorynerd i think @thairu gets that credit!

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

whenever someone was asking where they should work, i sent them breakout list, it's so great to see it's back: https://t.co/7eevhdPCdr

for @physical_int specifically, i'm looking to hire a head of / business leader (former/current founders ideal!) and our first creative hire!

[Chris Barber @chrisbarber]

I made a list of great startups to join. It's called the Breakout List.

The list has 92 companies. These are the 20 with 25 or fewer employees:
- Hone (@moritz_stephan, @CarloWillem, @oqbrady)
- Normal (@ansonyuu, @hudzah)
- Standard Intelligence (@G413N, @devanshpandey)
- Tacit Labs (@ninklefitz, @AmDroste)
- American Terawatt (@atroyn, @rslparker, @aranibatta)
- Conduit (@clemvonstengel, @riopopper)
- Convergent (Omkar Savant, Vivek Katara, @debnilsur)
- Core Automation (@MillionInt, @_arohan_)
- Engram (@dan_biderman, @EyubogluSabri, @realJessyLin)
- Instinct (@noahrshinn)
- Keenable (@styskin, Matthias Petri)
- Lumaril (Mark Elliot, Ben Duffield)
- Neion Bio (@Dimkell, Sam Levin)
- Pangram Labs (@max_spero_, @bradley_emi)
- Quadrillion (@echinaceous)
- Re (@karnsaroya, @AnandDhillon, @thecliffwhite, @benaneesh)
- Ricursive (@annadgoldie, @Azaliamirh)
- Sail Research (@neilmovva, @blintzbase)
- Trajectory (@rronak_, @michaelelabd, @QuantumArjun)
- Watney Robotics (Sean Cheong, Ryan Gannon)

Picks from Elad Gil, Charlie Songhurst, Keith Rabois, Mike Vernal, Alana Goyal, Sonya Huang, Ramtin Naimi, Marc Bhargava, Cory Levy, Aashay Sanghvi, Konstantine Buhler, John Luttig, Varun Gupta, Ray Tonsing and Avichal Garg.

Disclosure: I'm a small investor in American Terawatt, Convergent, Standard Intelligence and Trajectory (in this post), and in Factory, Physical Intelligence and SF Compute (elsewhere on the list). I didn't vote.

The full list is on Breakout List.

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

we've tried everything @ pi and Indent is the only one that has stuck

[Sashank @sthupukari]

Introducing @indent, one coworker for your whole company

Indent is a single agent that is built to work with every member of your team, simultaneously. Instead of every one setting up their own agents, use Indent to build one together.

Try it at https://t.co/fUTua8mUOc

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@tkanarsky @Tesla_AI @physical_int can't wait!!

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@strimblez why is my head so large

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@pranavreddy congrats on the gf

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@strimblez is that @matanSF

[Sourish Jasti @SourishJasti]

π is looking to opportunistically hire for a very special role : )

we're growing our contributions to the robotics ecosystem and hiring a scrappy generalist with a deep understanding of robotics & hardware to own this push. it'll be an open mandate to roll up your sleeves to do fun projects and build an incredible community (e.g. sponsoring grants, giving away HW, hackathon ecosystems).

please dm / tag exceptional people who have worked in public!

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

we have been doing sim work internally for about as long as the company has been around! there are many directions we're pursuing that have not yet made sense to talk about publicly.

my general encouragement to people would be: if you're working on something in robotics with promise, there's a high chance we're interested in exploring it together!

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

i find it very amusing hearing from the outside world what @physical_int's strategy is (apparently we're the "teleop company")

we're actually the "solve physical intelligence by any means necessary, with a willingness to explore all research directions" company :)

[Stone Tao @Stone_Tao]

Just over a month later, I have now joined @physical_int full time! Wrote a bit about why I'm excited to research simulation at Pi
https://t.co/XmbeITeOvG

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@the_judge1111 if im doing it right, everything i invest in is early!

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@tzedonn great write-up, thank you for doing it! let me know if we can do anything to help

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@nikunj @andrewmccalip +1

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@borisjabes @Sirupsen @acv i choose to believe he just liked to talk to me

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

the only person who has possibly put me to work more than @Sirupsen is @acv (and both just as bashful when it comes to talking about progress)

[Simon Eskildsen @Sirupsen]

turbopuffer crossed $100M run-rate in March. 19mo after $1M. Profitable & <$1M raised.

Cursor・Anthropic・Notion・Cognition・Harvey・Bridgewater・Ramp・Linear・Legora・Superhuman・Atlassian・Granola

We’d be nowhere without them. We work like hell to exceed their expectations.

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@yuris @cartoon_magoo @gdb @cjc and @DanielaAmodei!

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@bilalfarooqui i think they might also have been the first investor in plaid too

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@bilalfarooqui 😳

twitter? slack? deel?

[Lachy Groom @lachygroom]

@sama gpt-6 on 6/6??