Alëna Aksënova

Building something new. Ex-FAANG, PhD.

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@hthieblot https://t.co/Xp742EvcZa was a gem before spotify

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

Someone just brought a guitar to #StripeSessions and started loudly singing during Altman and Collision conversation 😂

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@wongmjane Cheers! Also got same rejection yesterday :)

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@paulg Reading this made me happy. But also, you never know what can come out of it, unless you keep building despite everything, so also: curiosity! :)

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@lay2000lbs Lol this is a little extreme but yes I agree with the direction! We have no office but we have artists, espresso and a smoking porch 😂

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Doing US business paperwork when your founding team is 2 Russians and a Nigerian is max difficulty mode. 🔥🌶️ Borders, why are you like this.

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

One of my favorite lessons from building with AI: if the temperature is too high, it will invent a salmon+blueberry smoothie, and insist that it's correct.

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@rebryk What was your experience like doing 3 startups in 3 years? Consecutively or in parallel?

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@patrickc As an ex-linguist, can confirm, this bug was rolled out 7-10 generations ago and is still around. Language UX bugs are notoriously sticky.

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I accidentally discovered that GPT-4o-mini recommends cheese way less often than GPT-4o when generating sandwiches. This is not a joke. I ran experiments. :)

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@lottsnomad Lol :) is the rebranding something that YC adviced you to do, or did you plan it previously?

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@paulg Being insulated from the cost of offense is an underrated form of leverage. Pre-customer founders get a low-budget version of it, but when it lasts, it's not luck. :)

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

I'm building something new.
It's for people who stare into the fridge like it's the void.

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@ycombinator @agupta Minimum evolvable product is such a good framing. Early on, first user feedback feels overwhelming but grounding -- exactly because it drives the evolution 🦠

[Alëna Aksënova @_alenaks]

@TheBaamAhmed @caffeinum @khurram_pirov This is cool, I was just looking for something like that recently, as I use quite a lot both notability and llms :)