Aditya Mehta

cofounder @ stealth • prev ceo @ suggestr (yc w22) • tweets mostly about startups • views are my own

[Marty Kausas @marty_kausas]

Announcing Pylon's Series B led by a16z and BCV

Since starting the company 2.6 years ago, 780+ of the fastest growing companies including Together AI, Cognition, and Temporal have chosen to scale their customer support on Pylon.

[Era® AI @tryEraAI]

Why Telegram is the New LinkedIn for Web3 BD (and Why That's a Problem)

If you're in Web3 BD and still primarily using LinkedIn for outreach, we have bad news for you - you're probably talking to an empty room

The real party moved to Telegram 3+ years ago, and like any good party that's gone on too long, it's starting to get a bit messy 🧵

[Coffee with One 🇺🇸 @coffeewithone]

🚀Join us for the AI MCP Hackathon on May 1st (Thursday) 🌉

- Free Food 🍕
- Prizes 🏆
- Public Demos 🎤

📍 San Francisco | Powered by @Snowflake and @fondocom
🔗 Scan the QR code to register - limited spots!

[Coffee with One 🇺🇸 @coffeewithone]

🚨 MCP AI Hackathon — SF Edition 🚨

Join us on May 1 for a full day of building with the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

👾 Build AI agents
🍱 Free food
🎥 Public demos
🏆 Prizes
🌉 Golden Gate vibes
Backed by: @SnowflakeDB, @fondocom, and @octolane

🔗 Spots are limited → [register in comment]

Let's go!!! Thank you @davj, @cassiecarter45 and the entire team to make this a reality!! 🚀

[Era® AI @tryEraAI]

Meet the Dise team in person at ETHSeoul 🇰🇷. A free month on us if you spot them and show them this picture.

[Rusya.solus @Rusya_Solus]

Thats literally amazing PMF for ppls with endless TG chats

Its how my TG accounts looks like

Dise team, I don't know u, but I love u

[Aditya Mehta @adityamehtax]

probably nothing

[Era® AI @tryEraAI]

Introducing you tryDise[.]com

• 1st CRM with Telegram integrated
• Organize your chats with pipelines, labels, smart filters, tasks, and reminders
• 🔥 Batch Send, Conference Mode™, Sequences, AI inbox
• Tailored for BD teams in Crypto

Never lose your chats again 🫡

[Oleksii @acecreamu]

Well executed, team!
Kudos to my co-founders @zlumer_eth and @adityamehtax, our best team, and our strongest supporters—our investors @alliancedao, @PrestoVC, hi5 Ventures, @typhonventures, @CryptoTimes_mag, @w3coins_io and more, without whom Slise's story wouldn't be possible 🫶

[Oleksii @acecreamu]

Building a company is like raising a child, and today, we sold our baby

https://t.co/Fm8C5viY51

[Era® AI @tryEraAI]

Learn more about the future of online advertising and the place Slise takes in it from The European Business Review

https://t.co/ujGtSOTF9v

[Era® AI @tryEraAI]

Meet our team... at every major event 🥱 Fr, just get out, touch the grass (and get a chance to try something new we've been cooking 👀)

[Oleksii @acecreamu]

Is profitability possible in Web3? or What surviving a crypto winter taught me about B2B Sales 😂
(from our letter to investors, fr):

The last quarter let us taste both flavors, the sweet and the sour of the crypto market. Since marketing spend is a lagging indicator of the market motion, we can confidently say that we’ve witnessed the bottom of the ad market only in January this year (when retail trends have already been moving upwards). There were exactly 3 active advertisers across all of our competitors and just no business to be made. January became the first month when we incurred an operational loss.

But it didn’t discourage us, in turn, it reminded us that we are not a “project” anymore but an operating business with real volume and real risks. So in order to protect our future and become more resilient to external conditions we started the process of maturing—optimizing weak joints in our product and business practices that we could afford as a teenager but that were unsustainable in the long run.

We spend January and February building towards optimization:

- Cut the headcount and restructured the existing roles;
- Built a mediation module to resell an unsold inventory;
- Reviewed our pricing model, increased the margin, and raised the minimum budgets;
- Revisited our agreements with publishers (liabilities) to make them more flexible;
- Added additional tools for monitoring and control of our traffic.

The result was not long in coming: February became our best month ever with revenue that surpassed our operational costs and made @slise_xyz ramen-profitable. With the following boom of the meme coins and new projects, our biggest problem in March became how to satisfy all the demands coming our way and replying to angry asks of advertisers to give them more traffic and move them up the queue. You heard it right, for the first time in our operations we had to put advertisers in the queue while simultaneously making deals with new publishers.

--- The demand is temporary, operational efficiency lasts forever ---

What makes me smile looking at my wife in the morning is not our revenue, and not even her beautiful face, but understanding that with our current processes, we can serve 10x demand with absolutely the same resources, keeping our costs fixed and only growing the profits.

(Find the full update in replies)

[Sri M @SriMspeaks]

It is possible to actually be happy and touch the source of happiness, if in this constantly moving world, we can find the center within which is quiet, silent and blissful and which cannot be moved by any distraction. From the outside, we need to go inwards. When we touch the inner, then we have touched the Shivam. If we have found it, then we have successfully experienced happiness.

#SriMspeaks

[Aditya Mehta @adityamehtax]

I was today years told when I learnt you can reorder menu bar icons on Mac by holding down the ⌘ key and dragging.

[Aditya Mehta @adityamehtax]

@acecreamu bs you only listen to taylor swift :)

[Aditya Mehta @adityamehtax]

peak productivity is using white noise as background music

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam 🔜 London @LinusEkenstam]

If it’s not clear yet, this is what I think will happen soon.

Every major tech company except Apple has announced their own LLM.

Apple have spent years perfecting their on-device neural engine. Capable of some absolute insane operations. Loads of compute in a small and energy efficient form factor.

With M1, M2 & soon M3 the neural engine is even more powerful than their A series mobile chipsets.

While we currently need the cloud to run ChatGPT and it’s clunky, I think Apple is going to blow everyone out of the water here. Both on desktop class hardware and mobile.

I think Apple will be launching their own secure and private LLM that runs on device (edge compute). And when necessary it offloads more heavy workloads to a cloud based LLM that’s optimized for heavier tasks. So we will initially have some hybrid.

Personal, with tight hardware and software integration this AI will be omnipresent. Apple will probably use this to sell a lot of new hardware that they claim is needed to run this. They will make a lot of moneys.

For me the LLM’s will form the new protocol level technology upon which most new software will be built. We will have to re-wire our core understanding about what an application is.

Single-use apps will be a huge thing. If you need to solve a unique problem, and nobody has ever done software for that because not enough market. With an LLM even a problem with only one user, will be doable, enter your ask, and code gets written, problem gets solved. Runtime ends, app dies. Done. Single use apps are born.

It’s hard to predict or try to understand how the world will look just 10 years from today. It will be very different, we have passed the inflection point, the rocket engines have been lit. We’ve taken off.

Add to all the above that every single field, category and market will be disrupted at the same time. And not only with text/coding but with any multi-media we have. Images, video & audio. Anything we can come up with can and will be enhanced or disrupted by AI.

Once we got more people that will have their AI A-ha moment the rate of change and adoption will continue to increase. This will continue until we have global access and coverage.

People will get left behind, and this will be one of the most important things to try to combat. Having a 0% left behind policy. We need to make sure AI benefits all.

We’re living through a paradigm shift, and we’re witness a new protocol level technology. We’re seeing it arrive in real-time and most people have no clue about what’s about to happen.

I’m not an AI alarmist, I’m an AI gardener, and optimist.

We will have time to adapt. Not as long as we had during the Industrial Revolution, but enough time to make sure we have a chance at a positive outcome.

We’re moving away from the Information Age into the Age of Intelligence. With unlimited access to intelligence anywhere, anytime.

18th Mars 2023 - Linus Ekenstam

[Aditya Mehta @adityamehtax]

@acecreamu assuming they're late for 5 min, that's putting your hourly at $180 🤑

[Tanay Kothari @tankots]

Recently, @WisprAI turned 1 🎉

What @SahajGarg6 and I started on a beanbag is now home to some of the smartest and fun people to work with.

Here are some of the things that helped us get here: a thread 👇

[Aman Jha @amanjha__]

Today we're launching the first version of Lui, publically, for everyone!

Lui is a command line for Figma - create and edit components just by stating what you want to do!

Go to https://t.co/CuB4mu8Qn8 to try it out, and here are a few commands to try: