Gunwook Yoo

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[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:

1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales

Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.

A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:

- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2

Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

@nebulocksec @FirstMarkCap @BainCapVC @DecibelVC @ZettaVentures Huge congrats!

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

Really enjoyed working on this launch film for @nebulocksec .

Huge congrats to the team on the $25M Series A. Cybersecurity keeps getting more important, and it was fun helping tell the story of a team tackling a very real problem.

Also, @izzyjhlee made this look way too polished for the timeline we had.

AI in the workflow is making small teams feel unfairly fast.

[nebulocksec @nebulocksec]

We've raised $25M in Series A funding, led by @FirstMarkCap, with participation from @BainCapVC, @DecibelVC, @ZettaVentures, and Step Function.

We’re building a hunt-first security analytics platform to help defenders tackle the hardest challenge: threats that don’t trip alerts 🔽

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

@arlanr @nozomioai Welcome

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

always exciting to see what a truly exceptional engineering team ships next 🚀

[jun @hyojun_at]

Today, we're launching Aside, the AI browser you’ve waited for.

⋅ Crafted in every detail: vertical tabs and Liquid Glass
⋅ SOTA on agentic browsing benchmarks: outperforms Claude Fable
⋅ Full privacy: Everything runs in local and encrypted
⋅ You can use Claude or ChatGPT subscription

The first AI browser built to do real work for you.

https://t.co/coZkFSGfgc

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

Full interview

https://t.co/5FEQI5u6JJ

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

i interviewed @minnasong last year, and her story really stuck with me.

front desk job to understand customers. 100+ vc rejections. years of building in industries most people thought were too hard and too messy.

this is what real-world ai looks like when it compounds.

huge congrats to @minnasong and @EliseAI on $200M ARR

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

the reason i felt we really had to make the interview with @yasser_elsaid_ happen is that his bootstrapping story is something young founders today need to hear.

watching it again, this interview is so good

[Yasser @yasser_elsaid_]

I did an interview with EO and broke down my playbook for growing @Chatbase! Hope it's helpful :)

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

Awesome

[Dhravya Shah @DhravyaShah]

You can now run @supermemory locally.

Introducing the supermemory local

- Fully self-contained. Comes with our graph engine, embedding model, etc.
- Run on any machine, with your @openclaw, hermes, claude, etc.
- SDKs to add memory to your agent, or build your company brain.

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

wait this is literally next door. might have to pull up

[eric zakariasson @ericzakariasson]

cafe cursor sf just opened and its already a long long line (2000 signups)

excited to see you all!

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

Went in to film AI-native robots 🤖

Left wondering if they could also help us carry C-stands next time.

Huge congrats to the @standardbots team on the Series C. Loved working on this one!

[Standard Bots @standardbots]

Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.

Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.

We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.

We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.

Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.

We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.

The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

@ziwenxu_ damn, guess my $39 ended up being a donation to the @interaction team

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

The more I use @interaction (Poke), the more I think AI products won’t win purely on raw model intelligence.

They’ll win by removing the friction points between humans and AI.

GPT and Claude are incredible. But they still feel like destinations you have to deliberately go to when you want to “use AI.”

The more powerful shift is when AI lives inside the places people already are, like messages, and feels natural enough to casually talk to without thinking.

Frontier labs will probably own the base models and a lot of the core experience.

But the products that get used every day will be the ones that understand your taste, carry a sense of soul, build real trust, and reduce the friction points of calling on AI until it feels almost free.

[Axiom @axiommathai]

Axiom launched six months ago with one conviction: mathematics is the right foundation for building systems that reason.

Today we announce Axiom's Series A.

We raised $200M at a $1.6B+ valuation, led by @MenloVentures, to extend our lead in formal mathematics into Verified AI.

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

@liangsays @theworldlabs Amazing!!

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

@ycombinator @jess123555 @SolaAI_ @a16z Full EO Studio interview: https://t.co/zPTCNvxmjP

[Gunwook Yoo @Ugwy]

“Stop overbuilding. Start selling.”

The @ycombinator lesson that shaped @jess123555's journey from MIT → hedge funds → founding @SolaAI_ .

At 22, she raised a $21M Series A led by @a16z — backed by enormous traction from enterprise customers.