Taylor Gendron

Solo GP // Building 🏗️

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

CEO of Stripe's advice to young ambitious people:

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

this Anthropic researcher wrote one of the best articles you can find here on AI research. obviously, Hamming's classic book is highly suggested to learn how to develop a "Research Taste".

[Anicet @AniC_dev]

no comment on her but look at the hosts
gosh they lost their soul

never exit your company

[max @maxkolysh]

one YC founder this batch went from $0 to $30K MRR in 2 months, entirely by showing up to his prospects' offices in person.

he'll sit w/ engineers until they fully set up his product

one company kicked him out after he went there 4 times in 1 week. but his close rate is >50%.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Act like you already have the term sheet, and soon, you will.

[Nike Basketball @nikebasketball]

Sleep well, NY.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://t.co/WeWBUkKym6

[⿻ Andrew Trask @iamtrask]

This is a *way* bigger deal than it seems...

Frontier AI companies will *never* own the frontier again

I kid you not... I've been waiting for someone to show this result for like 4 years... this is a huge deal.

The short reason: combinations of models will *always* outperform individual models

The long reason: this is the gateway to a million times more data... and huge leaps in compute efficiency.

The AI scaling laws always win.

More in article below 👇

[1752vc @1752vc]

15 Idea Stage Investors

@HarpoonVentures — $100k–$5M Early-stage investor focused on national security technologies

@1752vc — $100k Invests in early-stage tech

Julian Capital — $750k Deeptech seed fund

@AntlerGlobal — $125k Invests at day zero, pre-idea/pre-team

@BlackFlagVC — $100k–$1M Invests in early-stage tech and high-growth startups

@FirstMileVC — $100k Invests in early-stage tech and AI startups

@outsetcap — $200k–$400k Backs early-stage startups building innovative technology solutions

@redbudvc — $50k–$150k Early-stage tech investor

@SusaVentures — $1M–$2M Focused on data-centric, moat-driven startups

@1517fund — $50k–$400k Provides R&D checks for technical founders

@1UpFund — $500k Invests in gaming and VR startups

@500GlobalVC — $100k–$5M Focused on fintech and AI

@7wireventures — $100k–$5M Invests in healthcare startups

@8bitcapital — $100k–$1M Focused on software tools with network effects

@VenturesAv8 — $500k–$10M Backing early-stage healthcare startups powered by AI

@axialvc — $100k–$5M Invests in early-stage life sciences companies

[Nik @NikMilanovic]

🚨 BREAKING: Joshua Kushner's @ThriveCapital is putting $1 billion into buying local accounting firms and rebuilding them around AI.

The acquisition arm is a company called Current.

The pitch to a decades-old CPA firm: sell us a majority stake, keep a meaningful piece for yourselves, and we'll re-engineer the back office with AI.

The ownership model is the part worth a look:

→ Traditional PE buys to sell inside a fixed window
→ Thrive plans to hold for the long run, the way Berkshire Hathaway does
→ Local partners keep real, meaningful stakes
Patient capital, pointed at a fragmented, unglamorous industry.

The proof point so far is Larson Gross – one accountant, one office in Bellingham, WA in 1949, grown into a regional firm with five offices and 200 employees.

In 2025 its partners sold control to Current.

@Forbes reports the in-house models are hitting up to 98% accuracy on data entry.

Worth being precise, though – data entry is the high-volume floor of accounting, not the judgment work clients actually pay for.

The skepticism is fair, too.

AI roll-ups have been hyped for years and mostly underdelivered. The gap between the pitch and the operating reality is still wide.

The bet underneath all of this: that permanent capital plus AI can run a professional-services firm better than the people who spent decades building it.

If it works in accounting, the same template is waiting for law, insurance, and consulting.

A billion-dollar wager on the back office of American business.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

What is GBrain? My open source project is a knowledge system, not RAG in a box.

It gives agents 8 layers that work together to improve memory in a way that makes your already smart OpenClaw or Hermes Agent feel clairvoyant about who you are.

Personal AI becomes possible.

[Seema Amble @seema_amble]

https://t.co/o3nHSGDlUb

[Grishin Robotics @GrishinRobotics]

gaiia just raised $40 million in Series B funding led by JMI Equity, with Inovia Capital participating, to rebuild the operating layer for communications service providers.

The company is attacking a very specific bottleneck: CSPs often run billing, provisioning, account management, field service and workflows across 5 to 10 disconnected systems. gaiia replaces that stack with one data model and an AI-native system of action.

The demand signal is unusually concrete. Customers have run more than 10 million workflows on gaiia, workflow execution is up 10x in the past year, and revenue has grown more than 3x annually for three straight years. The team also has operator scar tissue from oxio, which exited to Cogeco in 2023, so the migration pitch is practical: no migration fees and 4-6 month go-lives instead of the 12-18 month norm.

Quick facts👇
● founders: Marc Campagna; Francis Careau; Marc-Olivier Alain; Olivier Falardeau
● total capital raised: $66 million
● HQ: Quebec City, Canada
● Investors: JMI Equity; Inovia Capital

[Andrew Ettinger 🇺🇸 @ettinger]

Vori's $22M Series B announcement started with a 5,000-word memo that they just made available to everyone.

A lot of launches start with a press release or a video brief. Before we touched a script, slide, or social post, we prepped a memo covering the market, product, traction, vision.

11-pages for the whole team and external partners to align around before anything else shipped.

This memo informed everything & then it became its own deliverable that we cooked up for the world.

A tasty little Series B microsite → https://t.co/mjnuvMwPLX

PR / Comms: @jenny_chao
Design Engineer: @thegriffinwells
Research: @rossmatican
Video: @afterimage

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Bye bye, Chinese rare earth supply chain. 👋🏗️

[a16z speedrun 🧊 @speedrun]

REQUEST FOR STARTUPS: There has never been a better time to build at the intersection of health and AI.

Every corner of medicine is being reimagined, and dermatology is one of the most compelling places to start.

Hear it from @evajsteinman 👇

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

The hardest spot in venture is to a Series A/B company that is not growing.

You are at 10-20M ARR, 20-50 employees but are growing sub 25%.

This setup is ngmi (not going to make it). You are not going to optimize and iterate your way out of that.

My provocative take here is that instead of trying to iterate here...you should return back to Minus One. Figure out the core assets you have and what you can build that might be a bigger shot on goal.
This will be very very hard. Frankly, I am not sure that many founders have the courage and fortitude to pull it off.

But it is worth trying.

Because the other path just leads to a slow decline and death.

And that is much more painful.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Lulu is like "The Wolf" from Pulp Fiction

[Sumeet Singh @sumeet724]

I am thrilled to announce Worldbuild I, a $30M fund to partner with founders when conviction cannot be outsourced.

I sat down with @alexrkonrad to share our story (link below).

We are a thesis-driven firm that focuses on the nuances, runs toward new ideas, and aims to lead with original thought.

Worldbuilders we aspire to partner with create new categories, play infinite games, and produce a gravitational pull of attention – just as the most ambitious founders & creatives in history have done.

While quietly laying the foundations for the firm, we have been fortunate to partner with founders at the earliest stages of their journeys, including Evan at SF Compute, Paul at Browserbase, Srikanth at Truffle, Baiju at Aetherflux, and more.

Worldbuild is in many ways a culmination of my life experience and what will now be my life’s work. I have always found myself surrounded by entrepreneurs: my dad, my wife, my best friends; and there is nothing more fulfilling than being their consigliere and first call.

If you’re building your world, I'd love to connect.

[Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin]

Here's the exact pitch deck that helped us raise a $5M seed in 3 weeks.

A couple of weeks ago, I gave away our $2M pre-seed deck, and it was downloaded by nearly 5000 ppl.

This one was led by @upfrontvc and other existing investors and followed our super successful open source launch, which amassed over 3000 GitHub stars in 48 hrs and was consistently featured on the GitHub trending repository list.

The deck is also p close to our current branding and finally graduated from the clumsy purple-blue gradient that dominated the pre-seed one 😆

If you're raising a seed round in 2026, this is still super relevant in many ways. Hope it helps!

Download it here: https://t.co/PFHavmxzRO