Robin Philibert

co-founder @ (YC W24)
AI agents that run your outbound.

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spending the whole weekend testing Jev to ship it inside Topo asap

what use cases are actually working well for you so far??

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Try https://t.co/rlniiUDRZX (14 days free trial)

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Topo is now free for 14 days.

What the agent does: watches the web 24/7 across 50 signal data points and tells you which accounts just became buyable.

Competitor followers. Job posts. Tech stack changes. Funding. Headcount moves. New hires in your ICP…

Our best one: every VP Sales who started following one of our competitors. They're either evaluating, or already educated on the space. Both are worth a message, and it's the highest reply rate we get.

Yours will look different. Go find out.

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talked to a YC founder yesterday; he started using us a month ago.

his whole outbound play: every morning he pulls the new linkedin followers of his competitors, keeps the ones that match his ICP, and sends each of them a voice note on Linkedin.

that's 5 to 10 contacts a day. 10 meetings a week. 90% of it automated.

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Try https://t.co/rlniiUDRZX (14 days free trial)

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Introducing Outbound from Slack.

Everything you used to do in a platform, now in a thread:

"find me 10 CTOs who went through YC and are hiring product engineers in SF"

"monitor my ICP and ping me when someone starts following a competitor on LinkedIn"

"draft a 4-step multichannel sequence, LinkedIn + email"

"what worked last week?"

An agent scans the web 24/7 for those signals, builds the list, enriches it, writes the sequence and launches the campaign.

All from Slack.

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@ArjanChaudharyy @aadityakumarsa @Greypoint_ @aakarkhanna @sudiprokaya @connortbot @Yahia @chaaai @isaactolley_ 🫡🫡🫡

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outbound isn't dead, it's just the only channel where you get told 'no' fast enough to learn something. In early stage that's the whole point imo

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@coryalthoff That’s not unpopular :)

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new office, same poster goes up first, every single time.

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what’s harder: getting your first customers, or getting a newborn to fall asleep? For me it’s the second one. 100x

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the people following your competitors on linkedin are the most educated buyers you will ever talk to!!

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@Gaus450 Founder led content

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Seeing a lot of YC rejection posts today.

We got rejected too. Feedback: no customers, product too light.

Came back 6 months later with $10k MRR and a real product. Got in.

The rejection was accurate. That’s what made it useful.

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curious if YC changed the founder profiles it picks since AI ate coding.

in W24 we were maybe a handful of non-technical founders in the batch. now that shipping is the easy part and distribution matters even more from the first months of a company, are new batches less eng-heavy??

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@Dan_Elkaim just sharing sales/outbound tips every day 🫡

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ok i think i'm going to start posting on linkedin a bit more often

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@connor_beem we got into YC with a different product, we needed pipeline for it, so we built our own outbound machine, and it ended up working better than the thing we were meant to be selling. Productised that instead and pivoted during the batch (our best decision so far)

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@Gaus450 I'd put the 10 hours into marketing the idea before the product exists, a fake demo or a list of 40 targeted people, and see who bites. then build the product, then improve distrib

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thinking back on yc, the thing they were best at was making a pivot feel like nothing.

the first talks were founders of multi billion dollar companies telling us what their company was when they showed up. hard to keep treating it as a big deal after that.

we pivoted a few weeks later. glad we did.