Clinton Blackburn

#Photographer, @MIT alum, #engineer for @VoriHQ, #aerialist, board member of @blackburnf, and @MITFCU

[Falconer @falconer_ai]

YC-backed @VoriHQ is growing fast and wanted a knowledge base that could keep up with them.

Before using Falconer, engineering knowledge lived in multiple places. Early Vori engineer, Clinton, knew context was a bottleneck for growth.

Now runbooks in Falconer update themselves as code changes, coding agents have accurate context, and engineers can unblock themselves. Vori engineers now have more time to build.

Read the full story: https://t.co/vlmeZz0pjH

[Brandon Hill • Vori.com @IamBrandonHill]

Grocery is a $1.5T domestic market — bigger than restaurants, bigger than hotels. But it's running on technology from the Reagan administration.

We just raised a $22M Series B for @VoriHQ to make every supermarket in America autonomous.

[Dave Nunez @capitaltruist]

Today a reset is taking place. The senior engineer making a million dollars a year in San Francisco uses the same frontier coding agent as the junior engineer in the Midwest. We talk to companies every day that are taking advantage of this reset, adopting expensive tools, putting in long hours, and still hitting a wall when AI struggles to understand their business context and intent.

The real truth is somewhere between the teams’ heads and the codebase.

Falconer gives everyone in the company, from engineering to sales to marketing to finance, a reliable source of truth. One that’s easy to contribute to and helps keep itself up to date.

If you want to know what changed in your product last week, ask Falconer to write a changelog.

If you want to understand how payment flows work for your new product, ask Falconer to create a diagram.

If you want to capture the decisions in your long Slack thread, ask Falconer to turn it into a document.

When the code changes, your PRDs, strategy docs, and runbooks get updated. Your employees are happy, your coding agents are happy.

Falconer was built with lessons in mind from making engineers at Uber and Stripe the most productive in the industry. We built custom tools for top tier talent. The results were remarkable. But outside of these companies, no one has access to these custom tools.

That’s what we had in mind when we built Falconer.

The quality of information you feed yourselves and your AI tools is how you get the most out of them and separate yourselves from the competition.

You can start centralizing and curating and compounding those gains over time, or you can let the bad information multiply, rot, and pollute your knowledge—severely limiting your AI leverage.

Everyone wants more knowledge, and everyone has knowledge to contribute.

Falconer is now available as your source of truth to achieve the productivity gains you’ve been searching for.

[Brandon Hill • Vori.com @IamBrandonHill]

2025 wrapped: We crossed $355M in payments volume at @VoriHQ 🚀

Grocery is the most important consumer spend category on the planet—and Vori is building its AI-powered infrastructure.

• +$22M in incremental sales for grocers
• 1.26M lbs of bananas sold 🍌
• 577k+ cost changes detected by Vori AI
• 50+ teammates building this every day
• Live nationwide — Seattle → Staten Island

2026: escape velocity. $2B+ in payments.

Buckle up.

[Brandon Hill • Vori.com @IamBrandonHill]

2024: We launched and went $0 to $153M in payments volume at @VoriHQ

2025: We 10x

2030: Vori is one of the largest payments businesses on planet earth

Watch our Year in Review below ⬇️

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

@umachingunde Wow! This resembles a lot of my decision to leave Stripe and ongoing experiences at Vori. Enjoy the next part of the journey!

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

@FairweatherPhD Nice! How can I get a signed copy?

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

@adamburmister @stripe Hot breakfast is back! So many new faces, although there was a BaaS on-site, so a lot of folks from NYC. I was only there for lunch, so didn’t take in much more than the lobby and cafe.

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

I visited @stripe this week for the first time since leaving. This was also my first time wearing a visitor badge since my interview 7 years ago. It felt good to be back and see old friends!

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

I kinda wish there was a "homecoming" for some companies. Stop in one day to see old friends...and grab snacks. Perhaps for a future Convergence, @stripe or @patrickc?

[Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffani]

I couldn’t look people in the eye walking down the sidewalk earlier

Like, I simply didn’t want to

And not just about VP Harris. Clowns around here didn’t even approve a statewide minimum wage increase to $18 and not making people slaves just bc they’re in prison

It’s absurd

[deray @deray]

There are a lot of lessons to learn:

- you have to win to wield power
- you can’t “teach your side a lesson” by helping them lose
- other minority groups want to be white & will vote alongside white interests even when it hurts them
- black people consistently vote pragmatically

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

Twice a year @fitbit customers are reminded that the devices still are not timezone-aware. #DST https://t.co/Z05PY7e9Zb

[Tamara Winter @tamarawinter]

25 years in tech is... the 1990s.

The actual pioneers who built computing weren't 'broken people with chips on their shoulders.' They were often methodical builders supported by strong institutions, mentors, and communities.

This trauma-glamorizing BS has to stop.

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

@Coty @techgirl1908 Gold sneakers. You forgot the ridiculous gold sneakers.

[Uprise @uprisemoney]

We’ve just announced our $3.3M seed round, featured in TechCrunch!

[Mekka 💉x7 @[email protected] @mekkaokerekebye]

It's 2024, and I'm still explaining basic US racism election math.

Take a swing state like Georgia. Picture 2 lines of voters. One is 100 Black voters, the other 100 white voters.

Every 100 white voters, Trump goes up 20 votes.

Every 100 Black voters, Harris goes up 80 votes.

[Daryl Fairweather, PhD | Chief Economist @FairweatherPhD]

Watch me break down the difference between Harris' housing plan 📔 and Trump's housing concepts of plans 💭.

[Clinton Blackburn @ccb621]

@tiffani January 21