Adriana

Studying best startups. market fit. growth strategies. operating systems

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Pinecone went from unknown to 10,000 signups per day.

Their First marketing hires were engineers who became developer advocates. They created the best learning center. They spent a year in Hacker News threads.

$750M valuation. 4,000 customers.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Braintrust landed Stripe, Notion, and Vercel before the product was fully mature.

The founder Ankur, made a targeted list of ~50 companies already working with AI.

Customers posted about 40% -> 80%+ accuracy using Braintrust.

$36M Series A. Doubled customer base in 6 weeks.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Product analytics platform PostHog hit $9.5M ARR.
70% came from word-of-mouth.

How? Radical transparency. They published everything how they hire, how they fail, how teams are structured.

Target YC founders (54% of latest batch uses them)

108K+ companies. 138% YoY growth.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Weights & Biases went from $5M to $50M ARR.

They built free courses with instructors from OpenAI and Google. Made the platform free for students and academics.

Students become engineers at OpenAI, Meta, and Nvidia, and bring W&B with them.

$1.7B acquisition. Used by 1M+

[Adriana @adrianacode]

You can run LLMs (Llama 2) on Replicate easily.

"In a gold rush, sell shovels."

"In AI rush, sell the easy way to integrate it."

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Replicate's biggest growth week ever? The week Llama 2 launched.

The Open-source models were too complicated for most developers.

Replicate made it one API call. Their integration didn't require hiring an ML engineer.

$5.3M revenue. 2M signups.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Weights & Biases grew from $5M to $50M ARR by betting on customers before they were big.

In 2021, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta weren't giants yet. W&B got in early and became the tool their ML teams depended on.

When AI exploded
$5M → $50M ARR. Acquired by CoreWeave for $1.7B.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Procrastinating is the worst thing you can do

[Adriana @adrianacode]

@BernAceituno @stackai @GradientVC @ycombinator @Soma_Capital @EpakonCapital Great Job! Congrats!!

[Adriana @adrianacode]

@amangour30 @furtheraicom @a16z That shift is what makes the founders do great things. Congrats!! $25M is great, and clarity like this is what actually scales a company.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

That's how you know you've done your website right

[Nick @shmkkr]

one of our competitors straight up copied our website 1:1 and changed the pictures. Should I take that as a compliment?

[Adriana @adrianacode]

One of the most basic necessities when raising money. This is how VCs determine if you're a worthy founder and if your idea is solid

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

The energy of someone speaking from experience is completely different than someone speaking from theory.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Have you escaped from the internet yet?

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

the internet used to be an escape from reality. now, reality is an escape from the internet.

there are 2 ways to make tons of money right now:

build niche tools that fuel the scroll or build things that stop it.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

@TylerDurden They all seem to be coming for us

[Adriana @adrianacode]

Welcome to the indiehacker, solopreneur and bootstrapper world!

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

It would be such a flex if startups replaced posting fundraising videos with posting revenue milestones.

[Adriana @adrianacode]

@zalkazemi

[Adriana @adrianacode]

@exoslinger @1x_tech It's 300, and this is what we all will be competing with

[Adriana @adrianacode]

@DMichaelTripi @1x_tech Do you remember how they detonated the nuclear bomb a chance of triggering cascading reaction of breaking down Air molecules and exterminating the whole world?

Yeah, this is peanuts..

[Adriana @adrianacode]

The fully autonomous mode was used 2 TIMES in this video. To open the door and to get the cup.

The rest is done by an operator in another room!

This is exactly the jobs that will be left.

[1X @1x_tech]

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[Adriana @adrianacode]

There you go, time to rethink the lifestyle.

The only work remaining will be:
- Integrating and teaching AI
- Luxury goods and services
- Founding new solutions in markets not taken over by the big players yet - How long will this last?

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

Elon Musk. Sam Altman. Jamie Dimon.

All saying the same thing: AI is about to end the world of work as we know it.