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tough exterior, soft interior, smooth brain

[vicc @_victorialiang]

the sf woman experience: having a guy hit you up on tinder to smash and then hit you up on linkedin to work for his startup

[vicc @_victorialiang]

am i feeling AGI or an inflamed butthole?

[Tanay Kothari @tankots]

we just raised another $25M after 10x'ing our ARR in 5 months. the crazy part is this almost never happened.

17 years ago, I watched Iron Man as a 10-year-old kid in Delhi. that night, I pulled my first all-nighter teaching myself to code. not because I wanted to build apps or make money.

because I wanted to build Jarvis.

my parents gave me 1 hour of screen time per day. so I coded in secret, sleeping every alternate night through middle school and high school. built 50+ apps. got a cease and desist from Google at age 12.

all for this one obsession: making computers understand us like humans do.

fast forward to today:

- we've raised $81M total to build the voice operating system
- growing revenue 40% month-over-month this year
- 70% user retention after one year (unheard of in consumer)
- teams at 270 of the Fortune 500 use Wispr Flow daily

our Series A2 was led by @hanstung at @notablecap (who was an early investor in five companies that made it to $100B valuation like Slack, Tiktok, and Airbnb). we also brought on @StevenBartlett as an investor and partner.

but here's what matters more than the money:

we cracked voice input. not transcription - actual understanding. our users hit "send" in under 0.5 seconds without checking. they trust it blindly. that's never existed before.

in a recent benchmark, Wispr came out as 3-4x more accurate than OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Siri.

and we're just getting started. voice input was step one. now we're building the assistant that actually does things for you.

to my co-founder @SahajGarg6 - there's no one else I'd rather build Jarvis with than my college roommate and closest friend.

to our team pulling all-nighters and shipping magic - you're the reason that 10-year-old kid's dream is becoming real.

we're hiring cracked engineers and growth marketers who want to build the future of human-computer interaction.

the keyboard had a good 150-year run.

time to build what comes next.

PS: like, retweet, and bookmark to get wispr flow for free for 3 months ❤️

— Written with @WisprFlow

[vicc @_victorialiang]

my guilty pleasure is watching white-on-white crime (all the anti burning man memes and tiktoks)

[vicc @_victorialiang]

a tale of two cities

[vicc @_victorialiang]

the best part of the (sf startup) work week is selecting your forkable lunches for the next week

[vicc @_victorialiang]

when you start working in-office everyday so you only have time to do 1 workout per day instead of 2-3 :(((((

[vicc @_victorialiang]

all this discourse about performative men and their matcha lattes, painted nails, and feminist literature.

but what about the performative women and their crypto wallets, jiu jitsu comps, and elon musk worship?

[vicc @_victorialiang]

Also asked if there is a rivalry between UofT and Waterloo, and learned that Waterloo grads don’t concern themselves with the opinion of UofT grads

[vicc @_victorialiang]

I thought that the saying “AI startups are just three Waterloo interns in a trench coat” was just a meme, but it’s actually true here

[vicc @_victorialiang]

raw dogging the office watermelon just to feel something

[vicc @_victorialiang]

@space_colonist the metaphorical commons or the literal SF commons?

[vicc @_victorialiang]

enneagram is just business astrology

[vicc @_victorialiang]

we knew @pranaygp was back on the sigma grindset when he went from wanting this room to become a meditation lounge…. to sleeping on a mattress on the floor.

(and no, he’s not going to get a pillowcase until vercel reaches $1 billion ARR)

[Pranay Prakash @pranaygp]

This kinda snuck through but I got back to @vercel this month 🧵

[vicc @_victorialiang]

this guy copying a prompt I used two years ago VERBATIM is just the latest instance of a man trying to take credit for my work 🙄

[vicc @_victorialiang]

all this Sydney Sweeney bathwater soap discourse makes me want to share the worst Hinge prompt I’ve seen in a minute

[vicc @_victorialiang]

@ArtirKel are you a reformed weeb or is it just cool to be a weeb now thanks to black athletes and rappers?

[vicc @_victorialiang]

never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a dude why he's learning japanese

[vicc @_victorialiang]

@kermankohli both my musician/composer exes ended up becoming SWEs…there’s more overlap in the skills than people think!

[vicc @_victorialiang]

What’s wrong, senpai? You’ve barely read your business self-help manga today.