Aaron Tran

🧑‍💻 Founder | 🍊 Y Combinator W22 |🥊 Boxing

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

AI has created a surge of interest in automation. But these automations still need to be configured manually by a human.

@workflow86 is an AI Workflow Engineer that builds complete automated workflows/business processes from just a prompt.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Workflow86 (@workflow86) is an AI workflow engineer that takes natural language descriptions of business processes and automatically creates fully configured automations with forms, tasks, AI steps, integrations, and more.

Just describe what you need, and it handles the rest.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@AHMEDHATATA_X @workflow86 Absolutely amazing work by @AHMEDHATATA_X 🙌

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@AHMEDHATATA_X @workflow86 Thanks for your amazing work on the video! @AHMEDHATATA_X

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

AI has created a surge of interest in automation. But these automations still need to be configured manually by a human.

@workflow86 is an AI Workflow Engineer that builds complete automated workflows/business processes from just a prompt.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Workflow86 (@workflow86) is an AI workflow engineer that takes natural language descriptions of business processes and automatically creates fully configured automations with forms, tasks, AI steps, integrations, and more.

Just describe what you need, and it handles the rest.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

Big win from the UNSW + YC pipeline 🍾

[Pasha Rayan @Pashpops]

I can't believe the day has come when we announce @theforage_ has agreed to be acquired by @EAB ! Forage's first-of-its-kind job simulations, millions of students, a network of universities of thousands, and it's hundreds of top employers around the world will help make EAB an unstoppable force in its mission to make education smarter and our communities stronger.

When I wrote up the code that invented the first virtual job simulation (we called them virtual internships back then), we couldn't have imagined the reach, impact and success we'd have. Who knew you could make a dent in large chunks of hiring cohorts, diversity outcomes, and impact so many personal lives with technology? It's exciting to be able to prove out that you're able to help people, do something unique and make a great business.

This journey has been crazy, and it hasn't been an easy or free ride getting here - but we wouldn't have gotten here without the fantastic team we've had - from exceptional engineers, product people, growth and marketing, to sales and more - with too many names and stories to share in this one post at the moment - thank you. Of course, thank you, my cofounder, @BrunskillTom , for driving this process and carrying this all through the last 7 to 8 years.

The future of @theforage_ is bright, and we are excited to see it move forward with @EAB !

https://t.co/4fqtZVtPYe

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@Pashpops @JosephNWalker @theforage_ @EAB Congrats!

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@georgedarroch It's so back

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

Money from tech success in the US goes back into the next-gen of startups via angel cheques. I suspect most money from tech success in Aus becomes downpayments for investment properties.

The change to the sophisticated investor test will only cement this further.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@misha_saul Definitely one of the peculiarities of Aus culture is how much the old high school tie matters and how little what uni you went to matters. In the US it's the complete inverse.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

Sam and Greg coming back to Open AI on the condition of sweeping corp governance changes and "cleaning house" would be best case scenario. We'd get back to pre-Nov 17 coup Open AI and they would double down on the direction they were headed. Hoping this is the story arc here.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@parkerconrad @lessin Zapier is the example that jumps out here. They have built out a decent moat via sheer volume of integrations. But not sure whether that is a playbook that can be replicated.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

Also apologies to anyone who has applied and not received a response yet, will be working through the backlog ASAP.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

We're looking to double our engineering team in the next 3 to 6 months.

If you are interested in working at the cutting-edge of bringing AI to mission-critical business processes then check out our job board:

https://t.co/NRxrOtuQTD

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

Interesting perspective from Sam Altman at the YC Reunion: "people are less forgiving of AI making mistakes than human making mistakes".

[Sam Altman @sama]

nothing like a YC reunion w/thousands of alums to make it feel like SF is best place to be in the world

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@robgo IMO the existential threat for Zapier is the ability for AI to read API documentation and write the code to set up the integration.

Zapier have spent years building a moat of thousands of pre-built integrations. If integrations can be created on demand, that moat weakens alot.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@frantzfries ClickUp and I'd argue Zapier with a lot of their stuff they are doing with tables and interfaces

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

Even more true if you are a solo founder. Massive upside to the sheer density of founder community here.

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

@drusenko 100% agree. For many founders, opting out of SF is literally deciding to make their journey 10x harder. Startups are already hard enough...

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

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[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

Pretty disappointing to see some in the Aussie VC and startup community making fun of this situation

[Eric Bahn 💛 @ericbahn]

If you see VCs or other tech players expressing joy in SVB's collapse--they are assholes.

Take note them, and avoid. There is nothing to celebrate here.

[Aaron Tran @aaa_ron_]

@KevinAFischer @OpenAI Sounds like it's more Bain becoming a distribution partner here to sell Open AI tech into the large enterprise/fortune 500 cos they are engaged by.