Æ Alex

Founder at Hyades
Building @blazer_ops | Talking to Customers
Being a handhold on your ladder.

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@__melchen__ @with_kiwi_ai another kiwi 🥝 from NZ 🇳🇿?

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@tachySam with no bugs 🤓

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@blazer_ops will be there soon. Can't wait for future.
@tachySam killing it.

@OpenAI @AnthropicAI @karpathy @bcherny

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@JohnDoeLio @suraj_sharma14 ye an Ex-Pal

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@JohnDoeLio @suraj_sharma14 Do you have SCI/SAP clearance? bonus if you are palantirian

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@tankots we gave a chance to a high school grad to take care of our marketing.

he have achieved more reach in a month than we all have achieved since the beginning of @blazer_ops.

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@davidsenra @travisk The life of a startup founder is great.
Our new marketing intern just bought me breakfast. 🥪
you know why...

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Work in Progress @blazer_ops

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@suraj_sharma14 Just spent a night debugging why running DeepSeek-V4-Flash on a multi-GPU Blackwell (SM120) cluster ended up in in silent token repetition. Turns out framework pipeline hooks were blindly sharing RoPE cache buffers across physical cards.

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@ycombinator Group Partner @harjtaggar breaks down what actually determines founder suitability and how to evaluate taking the leap.

Core Founder Trait: Resilience Over Background

1. Resilience as the primary metric: Academic or corporate achievements do not predict startup success. The single most important factor is your capacity to withstand prolonged uncertainty, rejection, and lack of progress.

2. The "Grind" Reality: Expect extended periods—often a year or more—of intense effort without financial compensation or clear validation before achieving product-market fit.

3. Curiosity over rigid motivation: You don't need a grand mission on day one. Initial curiosity about a problem is sufficient to start testing ideas.

Evaluating Your Next Steps & Risk

1. The Worst-Case Scenario: Frame the downside realistically. In most cases, the worst outcome of a failed startup is returning to the job market with significantly enhanced skills and high-leverage experience.

2. Energy Signals: Pay attention to where your energy goes. If your day job leaves you drained but working on side projects evenings and weekends energizes you, it is a strong indicator to consider transitioning full-time.

3. Actionable Validation: Focus on deep engagement from a small group of committed early users who love the product rather than collecting hundreds of passive waitlist signups.

How to Prepare Before Quitting

1. Immerse in the Ecosystem: Work at an early-stage startup to observe high-stress environments firsthand and build a network of potential co-founders.

2. Iterate Rapidly: Turn ideas into lightweight side projects and launch them quickly to test your problem-solving rhythm.

3. Engage in Founder Circles: Talk through raw concepts with smart, honest peers to refine ideas before making a total career pivot.

https://t.co/8MsGcOecnj

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@vmkbuilds hola
- Human from Earth

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship

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@namanambavi Hi Naman, Nice to meet you. DM me, we'll catch up.

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@JayHoovy I think the reach, visibility, and access to a wide range of potential initial customers they can talk to justify the stake more than the money they give.

Ex-YC companies and their network is insane.

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@bernhardsson Holy Shit! Erik actually reacted to it. OG!
Can't wait to show https://t.co/TiCFhxfs8G to the world.
Still cooking........

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@bernhardsson @bernhardsson We'll be arriving a little late, but can't keep the mouth shut, we recently tried out modal for our stack, and it is just incredable. Honestly saved 3-4 months worth of dev. When speed is imp, you pick MODAL!!

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@irastech @garrytan @capydotai No diff, that's the new moat 😎

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@garrytan @justinsunyt @capydotai 90% of the world still doesn't know what BYOK is.