ChenLi W

Doing things that don’t scale. Investing @wndrco, prev growth, bizops, product @dropbox

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@tjack @jgreze @TownAI @tonydevincenzi Team cash tracksuit FTW!

[Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage]

A job listing that makes sense only in the 21st century AD or the 21st century BC https://t.co/Vey4KTm4d9

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

Thanks Pucky for resurrecting this amazing photo!

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

@jgreze This is a great thread, but don’t sell yourself short!

I’d like to think our Team HUG plushies were the spiritual forerunners for your Townies 😘

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@joshpuckett @jgreze Hahaha I was probably too serious back then, Cerberus the three headed dog was my spirit animal as I was convinced growth/monetization were the only things between the company and hell.

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@christianreber pi @badlogicgames

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@tjack @TownAI @firstround @jgreze @tonydevincenzi So good!

[Jean-Denis Greze 💡 @jgreze]

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

The future of AI is a companion that already knows you and how you work. Town connects across your inbox, calendar, Slack, docs, messages, and workflows to understand what you need, then starts doing the work with you.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@jgreze @TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction Congrats JDG and Tony, such a cool product!!

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Word is that their internal AI just started looking at Anthropic job boards all day after training on the employee base.

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

death of the three act playbook

[Colin Robertson @mortgagetruth]

One of the nation's largest mortgage lenders has launched an athleisure clothing line.

Rate (formerly Guaranteed Rate) has rolled out RateFit, "a wellness-driven lifestyle brand."

They were the 7th largest mortgage lender in the country last year. (I'm as baffled as you are).

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@rabois @pitdesi Hedged the bet in a world before polymarket!

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@nikunj And be willing to suffer “ok bummer” for 20 years.

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@ItzSuds Thank you sir for connecting @taiuti with us!

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@nikunj @reactorworld @taiuti @_bschmidtchen Thank you for being a huge advocate for @wndrco and hope we find more great founders together!

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

Very excited to partner with @taiuti and @_bschmidtchen and love how obsessed they are with quality, latency, and real world applications of world models!

[reactor @reactorworld]

Today Reactor is coming out of stealth. We’ve raised $59M in Seed and Series A funding, led by @lightspeedvp, with participation from @AmplifyPartners, @wndrco, @Sky9Capital, and @FPVventures.

Reactor is the platform for building in the World Model era: the infrastructure that lets developers build with them at global scale for the first time. Stream from a frontier World Model to your app, in real time, all in under 10 lines of code.

World Models represent the next major shift in AI: pixels, audio and actions are generated on the fly, in real-time, in response to user inputs, and to the environment. Every time computing has made a shift from passive to interactive, entire industries appeared that didn't exist before. We're standing in front of such moment again.

Over the last 6 months, we’ve assembled an all-star team with alumni from Apple, Meta, Google, Luma AI, Netflix, and Replicate. We're already partnering with some of the biggest names and labs in the world, and hundreds of developers are already building on Reactor.

The World Model era starts now.

[Miss Ally @MissAlly_01]

At Heathrow airport check-in I was asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?"

I answered, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?"🤔

[Owen @owenology]

Just found out that Berkeley course staff are writing hooks inside course repos so if a student opens an assignment in Claude Code or Cursor the agent will automatically ping the staff 😵‍💫 well played

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@MilksandMatcha Metaphor!!!

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

@borisjabes @lachygroom @Sirupsen @acv @acv does not manage investors. They work for him in an (at will) employment capacity.

[ChenLi W @chenliw]

This is very neat…inspiring and envy-inducing! Wish there was a good framework that defaults to these principles.

[Brotzky @brotzky]

Introducing https://t.co/ycxJEf1z7w!

A new space where I explore how the best apps in the world are built.

First piece:
How's Linear is so fast? a technical breakdown.

https://t.co/9Vu1syrn1i