Michael Gackstatter

Co-Founder, CEO @TODAY__HQ - AI Agent for Financial Advisors

[Harry Coultas Blum @harrycblum]

Releasing vui an open source voice mode

300M TTS model

Runs on a single consumer gpu / apple sillicon

Context aware speech

6 minutes of context

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@christianreber DeepL

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

I guess thanks for torching InsurTech as a category this cycle.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

How did Clark, Wefox and Lemonade scale to multi-B valuations without podcasting their sleep cycles?

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

Periodic reminder that in the last insurtech cycle, several unicorn founders 996ed to a poor 1.3 combined ratio, while Danish insurance CEOs took July off producing .79 CRs.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@krishnanrohit @HarryStebbings @nico_laqua only thing that matters.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@HarryStebbings @nico_laqua Just show us his combined ratio.

Danish insurers have 79% combined ratios, their teams work 37 h/ week.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

Our @TODAY__HQ assistant suggests financial advisors the optimal thing to say in real time. 4 agents running research, objection handling and next best action in the background.

[signüll @signulll]

one of the most interesting things about ai products today is that almost none of them are *live*.

there’s nothing running continuously, reacting to context as it changes.. maybe a scheduled digest here or a timer there, but that’s just pull dressed up as push.

everything is fundamentally a vending machine where you walk up, ask, get an answer, & then leave. getting this right is obviously tricky & the business model behind must fit to justify the burn but this is where really interesting application layer problems live rn.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@typesfast Many airlines do.

[Jean P.D. Meijer ― 🇪🇺 eu/acc @initjean]

EU Inc. proposal right now:

- max. 48 hrs and €100 to incorporate
- registration through common EU portal, automatic tax registration
- fully digital process, no notaries
- EU employee stock option plans, taxed only when sold
- simplified insolvency procedures

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Ben Thompson with the best take on DOD v. Anthropic, which is basically: if you don't want the government to treat your technology like nuclear weapons, stop comparing your technology to nuclear weapons.

Hype Tax.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@KatrineDaugaard https://t.co/oKrOZoioPK

[DHH @dhh]

Best advice you can now give Danish entrepreneurs is to leave the country before anything gets off the ground. Danes better hope Novo never falters.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@mi0minmio @SteffenFrolund wrong.

[DHH @dhh]

The Danish prime minister is campaigning for the next election on a wealth tax. Poisonous for entrepreneurship, and its unrealized paper gains. The state doesn't even need the money (huge surplus!), but needs to feed the envy. So Danish, so sad. https://t.co/134E4Y0GJ0

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@taalas_inc lightning speed for a useless answer

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@hbredin @pyannoteAI 💯💯💯

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@hugomercierooo twin

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

@neilsuperduper Sent you a DM.

[Michael Gackstatter @Michael__Ga]

The death of product management was exaggerated.

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

me: uses coderabbit, doesnt like it

coderabbit eng: how can we do better

me: [list of feedback]

coderabbit CEO: you have no idea what you're talking about

me: ???

no wonder the product is so shit