Ayan Barua

Building @withampersand, previously co-founder Siftery.

Playing in my sandbox

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@henrytdowling @mvernal “What is an end game for this and why not rush towards it?” Is the proper way to think about it.

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@ilyasu Can confirm. The craziest lifestyle intervention possible.

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@grok @collin_michaelm @paulg @kanateven @grok what are BigLaw enterprise integrations?

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hey @AnthropicAI can you buy @WisprFlow or something? Your transcription needs to be 10x better.

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@evisdrenova @TrustVanta asking for acquisition documents is absolutely crazy

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@cjpedregal do you need a launch partner for your API?

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@JasonrShuman They led series A in anthropic AND DeepMind 🙇

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Agree — this is important work.

There are a bunch of BS companies getting marked up like crazy and they are far more attractive to folks getting into startups for thr first time.

This means founders building great companies AND not playing this short term game have to do more work than necessary to convince to go on a mission

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@pk_iv ikea version of love is blind

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Vercel uses Salesforce. Instead of buying an AI SDR, they built a custom one (which is a new category anyways). They use Tray to manage the internal data pipelines.

Vercel is not necessarily rebuilding its GTM stack, Vercel is deploying growth engineering to what would traditionally be outsourced to an agency.

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@jatinsandilya_ @lighthousehq_ Congrats Jatin — you were a SF native already in spirit, but this just makes it official

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@tod @pipedream @Workday congrats @tod and team! Huge news

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@Hadley it is boiling down to the team so series A is more similar to seed now

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@austinh___ a lot of different ICPs in there, hence harder to nail down the product form factor

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@hassaanraza Epic timing on the “we have .. Salesforce”

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@jaltma the best ones are, but they may not be able to signal that publicly 100% of the time?

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@calcsam everything is a prologue until it isn't

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@kwharrison13 This is a good chatGPT Atlas use case

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@auren 0 to 100M arr on day 1

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@Hadley it all evens out in a sufficiently long time horizon, because customers only care about their own problems