Benedikts

20, cto @tryharlow, national powerlifting champion |🇱🇻🇱🇹| @join_ef

[faust @fh7ww]

you still in Europe with a boss?
dont you have better things to do?

go join @jointhebridge
https://t.co/HYsgTd2iSs

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Walter (@walterindustry) is an AI employee for the manufacturing back office. He logs into the same legacy ERP a factory already runs just like a human would, and takes over the manual work no one ever wanted to do.

Congrats on the launch, @nikolas_keller, @lukaspostulka!

https://t.co/iSEfrEoeqQ

[N. @Nlacombe_]

this is my life, turned into a game.

introducing Promethee

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@fdotinc Cracked guys

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@petravicaleksas @fdotinc Your jawline is better

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

Cursor emailed me saying I'm top 1% of users in Riga over the last 6 months.
I stopped using Cursor in November/December. Switched to Claude Code.
Shipped enough in ~6 weeks to outrank people using it daily since.
This is what a real CTO does.

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@ValliVeeti Maybe your demo also could be a YC startup

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

Our demo could be a YC startup on its own.

[Vlad @vfsenkevich]

We kinda tried...

@adilmania @siliconmania @tryharlow

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@vfsenkevich @fdotinc Cracked guy

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

First Latvian to get into @join_ef .

In Latvia, "funded dropout" isn't really a thing. The expected path runs through university and into a stable job - not through failed companies and second attempts.

I've been building things for a while. Competitive coding as a kid, fine-tuning GPT-2 before many knew what that meant, a few companies since. The last one was Lindra - a browser agent that ranked top 3 on WebVoyager. We couldn't crack distribution and shut it down.

The Bridge (by @join_ef ) is two months in SF with founders from across Europe. <1.5% acceptance. The people in this room turned down offers from Palantir, left PhD tracks, walked away from the most promising startups in their home countries. Being around that kind of commitment changes what you think is reasonable.

I met my co-founder @vfsenkevich here. BJJ world champion, very ambitious, great at sales. Working with him feels like being pulled by a Formula 1 car. We started working before the program officially began.

We're building @tryharlow - AI agents for hotels. A $1.5T industry still running on software from the 90s. That shouldn't be happening in 2026.

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@RMladek Did you get robbed?

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@ValliVeeti Go to SF

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@ValliVeeti Interesting thought

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@ValliVeeti To seem important. And then that VC will lowball you like crazy

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@ValliVeeti @_philschmid Don't ask stuff like that, it is cool tech

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

@ValliVeeti You should be put on a European wall of shame for such tweets. Go pay taxes on the money you didn't make

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

One of those nights when I need to be sleeping, but my body wants to ship stuff instead

[Benedikts @benbolsakovs]

Worked my entire flight. It's amazing when an airline has starlink.