Dana Byerlee

HealthTech & wearables. Relaunching the AI x Wellbeing Brief soon!

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

Government compliance & liaison roles are about to multiply.

[Justin Schroeder @jpschroeder]

Fable isn't the first.

In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.

Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

🤔

[Verci @vercinyc]

this might be the most unique opportunity ever posted on the internet

rick rubin is looking for someone to teach him AI this summer.

the deal: you spend a month at his villa in tuscany teaching him vibe coding and agentic workflows while some of the greatest artists alive stop by

his argument: the biggest gap in AI isn't capability. it's taste.

this is why artists and technologists need to be in the same room 👀

apply below

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

Doctors don't get paid for writing a particular prescription—in fact, that would be illegal.

Influencers get paid when you buy their peptides.

Yet this is rarely discussed, as if physicians are the only ones with potential conflicts of interest. That's BEYOND baffling!

Hate to break it to you: your favorite influencer never took a Hippocratic oath.

[Alex Ker 🔭 @thealexker]

Most AI demos built for healthcare don't survive in real clinical or operational environments.

The data is messy, the workflows are fragmented, margin for error is near zero.

That's why I'm stoked to host a 1.5-day Healthcare x AI Hackathon with @HealthcareAIGuy in NYC: a small group of engineers, founders, PMs, and builders who are serious about applying AI agents and tools to healthcare problems in production.

Stack: @Baseten, @Lovable, @ElevenLabs
Cash prizes. And a few surprises.
📍 NYC | June 26–27

Space is limited and application-based.

Apply by June 17th at 11:59 pm ET → link below

[Danny Bernstein @bernsteind]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

@petergyang Ugh I think so, too. And that ID being your eyeball.

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:

1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.

2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.

3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.

4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free

5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.

6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.

7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.

8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.

9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?

11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.

12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.

13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

Yup 😵‍💫

[Kris Puckett @krispuckett]

@petergyang KYC coming for all models I bet. Valid US ID.

Surely this won��t hold up in court, right??

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

of course 🤡

[Jyoti Mann @jyoti_mann1]

SCOOP: Meta plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees’ token usage, the company told staff in a memo on Tuesday, just weeks after it pushed them to adopt AI tools in their work.

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

Lolol

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
https://t.co/s3LE8vedNi

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

@Mcoudert @omooretweets @TownAI @meetgranola I'm curious about this too, I guess it's just a friendlier UX?

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Workforce survival in healthcare
"The coming decade demands that we stop asking whether AI can replace clinicians and start asking how it can help us keep them."
https://t.co/EkYGoRfxXj

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

@viczli1 This story is incredible! I'm putting this in my inspiration folder 🙏

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

@ScottHickle Wait what?? Lol

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

@thebrunchguy I so love this (and feel like we share similar purposes!) thanks for sharing

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

@hume_ai @ElevenLabs A line often attributed to Debussy: "Music is the space between the notes."

The tech gap is closing fast. If you're building here, I'd love to connect as I care about tech that facilitates embodied experience!

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

Earlier this year I almost built an AI meditation app. I spent days deep in the latest AI voice tech, but didn't move forward as I didn't feel the output would really hit my Gold Standards.

A thread on what AI meditation gets right, and the one thing it still can't do:

[Dana Byerlee @AIxWellbeing]

If you saw TT user huskistaken's viral clip of ChatGPT confidently "timing" his mile run & inventing a result, that's the same blind spot. AI doesn't really sense time yet.
It's why polished AI meditations can feel subtly off. Technically correct, but something emotionally absent.