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[nico @nicoaferr]

There is disproportionate alpha in finding every 20-something year old grinder tucked away in random corners of the world and just arming them with the capital and resources they need to take a meaningful shot on goal

[consilience @consiliencilize]

what Argentina do on a football pitch is spiritual. they stare death in the face and just refuse to die. life lesson in there.

[nico @nicoaferr]

@PrimalNick We’re so back

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Heavenly victory 🇦🇷

[nico @nicoaferr]

@davidrgoldberg Skill issue.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

The most underrated hiring signal:
the Give-a-Shit Quotient.

[niclas @niclasernst]

Nico came to us with an ask. We spent almost a year being Default’s design function. Now live across product and all the things:

https://t.co/Ac7Y8trePU

[nico @nicoaferr]

@fernandorojo Vamos!

[dax @thdxr]

most startups have good ideas but fail to figure out how to package them into a successful product

so they mostly exist to feed ideas to the companies who have figured this out

[nico @nicoaferr]

@pk_iv ???

[Jamin Ball @jaminball]

Q1 earnings season is just about done, and this Q has been great for software. Looking at the YoY growth in quarterly net new ARR added, this was the best quarter (by a long shot) in last ~5 years

[nico @nicoaferr]

@oliverbrocato @Cyrushshirazi and the @usehaven team are the GOATs

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[nico @nicoaferr]

https://t.co/rL4pUVCaSp

[nico @nicoaferr]

We built a CS agent that automates 60% of our CS work for ~$80/mo in tokens.

It classifies and escalates issues, answers product questions, replies to customers, and even fixes bugs

Powered by @aisdk, @pinecone, @supabase, @vercel, and @Railway.

Blog and tech spec below.

[nico @nicoaferr]

@andrewqu He won’t stop sending cold emails

[nico @nicoaferr]

Hired our first AI SDR today!

[nico @nicoaferr]

Very, very bullish on @PrimalNick and what he and the team are building at @DraftedAI

[Drafted @DraftedAI]

1/4

Most people spend their lives living in buildings they had little influence over.

We believe AI can help change that.

Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with https://t.co/M3bUUqREhP

Today, we're excited to share that we've raised a $16M Seed led by Buckley Ventures to continue building multimodal generative models for residential architecture and spatial design.

Here's a glimpse of what we're building:

[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

A lot of people are worried software is dead.

But throughout history, any time humans have gotten new tools, we've always found new things to create with them that weren't possible before.

It just doesn't always look exactly like the things of the past.

[nico @nicoaferr]

@giovignone @withdefault @8vc @owner @AirbyteHQ Thanks Gio!

[nico @nicoaferr]

Today, I'm incredibly excited to announce @withdefault's Series A led by @8vc and our new product.

We spent the last three years building the tools and orchestration layer companies like @owner and @AirbyteHQ have used to build infrastructure across their go-to-market functions.

Today, we're launching the first real-time data layer for go-to-market, a powerful new revenue agent, and a suite of tools for revenue teams and their agents.

It's Day 1.