Jed Christiansen

now: @fluxon prev: @golden (& @goseeddb) @Techstars @google ex-Londoner, drove nuclear submarines and built solar-powered race cars. Tsundoku master.

[Jed Christiansen @jedc]

Perhaps the most important startup equation? (Constant improvement trumps all)

As spotted at @homebrew HQ.

[Comeback Ceiling @ComebackCeiling]

🔒 GAME OVER
Raiders trail 49ers 38-17
4:41 left, Q4
No away team has ever come back from a bigger deficit
Old record: 17 pts (2008)
@Raiders @49ers
#LVvsSF #FTTB

[Jed Christiansen @jedc]

I wish I could put this in the face of EVERY SINGLE new Senator & Rep.

Reading Robert Caro’s books on LBJ, this is how he built power - CONSTITUENT SERVICES!

(It’s *so* not sexy, but it matters and works)

[Darrin Camilleri @darrincamilleri]

Unsolicited advice to all the Democrats who won tough seats this week across the country: have the best possible constituent service operation you can.

I won and flipped my first state house district in 2016 by 323 votes the same night that Trump won my seat by 12 points.

My team was relentless in solving constituent cases because I believe that we can connect with residents regardless of party in this way. We still work this hard at casework.

The proof it works? This comment from a constituent this morning on my Facebook page:

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Four years ago, Pres. Biden nominated Scott Colom to serve as a federal judge in Mississippi.

Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker supported the nomination of Mr. Colom. The state's other senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith, refused to do so based on absurd claims.

Mr. Colom reached to Sen. Hyde-Smith to address her concerns and respectfully point out misunderstandings on her part and appeal to her better angels.

Other prominent Mississippi Republicans reached out to Sen. Hyde-Smith asking her to reconsider and support Mr. Colom's nomination.

She still refused, effectively killing his nomination for no good reason.

She's now on the verge of losing her seat to Scott Colom, who would have never been a threat if she had supported his judicial nomination.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Very happy about this outcome.
Racists losing is great for America.

[evAdvocate @evAdvocate_org]

If I died while raising money for a charity to honor my late grandfather, I'd hope any news coverage would include a link to the fundraiser. It seems like an important part of the story and the legacy I'd want to leave behind.

https://t.co/wQQWhlFEzL

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

We should all have at least one chance in our lives to flex like this.

[Jed Christiansen @jedc]

@kurt 159 bpm average?!?!?

[Ray Wert @raywert]

I’ve known Haley Stevens for a long time. Until now, she has always had staff to protect her, prop her up, and keep her safe from her own irrational behavior. What we’re seeing now? This is just raw, unfiltered Haley.

The Haley who flip-flops and goes from thought to thought without rhyme or reason. The Haley that calls you at 3 AM to yell at you, and then calls you back at 5 AM oblivious to the fact that she even spoke with you at 3 AM. The Haley who bends to the last and loudest voice that tells her something.

More often than not that last voice is now her fiancé. And as you can see by what one of her former staff people posted earlier here on X, that appears to potentially be a really troubling relationship.

Up until this point, other than a joke I made on X a few days ago, I wasn't going to say anything public about Haley Stevens or how she has comported herself since the primary. It not only wasn't appropriate, I would never, ever want anyone to think I was speaking for or on behalf of my wife. But Haley's erratic choices mean I can no longer be silent about my interactions with her since the primary ended.

I approached Haley in the middle of September about putting her name to an Op-Ed attacking Mike Rogers for his unwillingness to denounce the antisemitic members of his own team, the $10 million in support he's received from Christian nationalist Tim Dunn, and his steadfast opposition to a woman's right to choose. The goal of the Op-Ed was to remind members of the Jewish community that Mike Rogers doesn't align with our values. The proposed Op-Ed never mentioned Abdul. The only thing it asked for was to not vote for Mike Rogers.

Initially she was very interested in it.

Then she wasn't.

Then she was again.

Then she wasn't.

She never signed it.

Literally the bare minimum - attack MAGA Mike Rogers, the guy who would have been running against you had you won the primary. And that was over a month ago. This is nothing new. This is just who Haley is. By the way, here's the Op-Ed that she wouldn't let me publish.

[John Todd @JohnToddNFL]

The only two NFL teams that have yet to score 10+ offensive touchdowns this season:

The 0-6 #Chargers
The 6-0 #Vikings

[Jed Christiansen @jedc]

@LeedsRising Well, the same guy started Atari, so it probably didn’t seem like the craziest bet?

[Comeback Ceiling @ComebackCeiling]

🔒 GAME OVER
Chiefs trail Seahawks 3-20
3:47 left, Q4
No away team has ever come back from a bigger deficit
Old record: 16 pts (2019)
@Chiefs @Seahawks
#KCvsSEA #GoHawks

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

It’s really peak @VivekGRamaswamy. Not only does he become a cheerleader for child rape to save his dying campaign. He tracked down an 82 yr old homeless woman living in a car in a church parking lot with a bunch of cats to star in his child rape ad.

[Jed Christiansen @jedc]

Founders - take a few minutes And check out what @judegomila and @tylerlastovich are building with @ultrametricai!

Automate the 💩💩 and give yourself the time to focus on what really matters.

[Jude Gomila @judegomila]

I'd like to share a little about what I've been working on at my new company @ultrametricai with my cofounder @tylerlastovich. We have been exploring how we could automate the startup itself, leaving founders with more time to focus on their exact mission.

Enter our first release of the Open Startup Repo: https://t.co/ecZZRU9iX4

A common foundation for transparent automation of the startup.

After close to 20 years in silicon valley, backing hundreds of amazing founders & startups, being in the trenches of founding Heyzap (YC08), then solo founding @golden, going through 2 acquisitions and working behind the scenes with some of the iconic companies today, I'm witnessing the largest change to how we work I could have imagined - a truly monumental era of creative abundance.

I believe the next generation of companies will largely run themselves: from operations, code, product upgrades, growth, vendor control & selection, process execution, special situations, strategy etc etc. That leaves founder time for 'the art' at the very niche core: the (currently) unautomatable, the special leaps humans tend to make, and north star setting.

We want founders to go super deep into the main problem they are trying to solve and not get held up doing anything else, from searching for domain availability with trademark checks to setting their company up, to running their processes on autopilot.

So to help that broad foundational layer for starting and running a company, we have spent around a year exploring how to help founders focus on their mission across different verticals, geos, stages and initial starting conditions.

Our first few attempts at making something useful actually failed as the market and AI was moving so fast; it just got absorbed into the models or other product releases. We saw polsia happen, openclaw, then grokbot, muse, dots, etc era as the astras, fables, opuses, kimis and jevs rolled out. What seemed to have been missing along the way was a common repo to identify, unify, open and normalize all the lego bricks that startups have to interact with (vendors, processes, business logic, law, best practices, surface areas, art of the possible).

As the number of software vendors blew up, the interfaces to drive them multiplied, the international startup founder blew up as silicon valley moved from a specific location to a state of mind and global movement. Unlimited pre seed funding in unlimited vertical sub markets and permutations has brought us to the age of infinity but we have yet to achieve being able to type into an agent a very simple sentence with very complex implications 'just setup my company and make $1m/m'. We have ended up with a hybrid mismash of computer use, API calls, plugins, shifting surface areas (API/MCP/CLI/plugins/chats/musish futures), and changing model absorption to vendor balance making it an exciting and unstable time.

As our first step we started to rank all the vendors that startups interface to when going about their journey in terms of how agentically controllable they are via their APIs, MCPs, CLIs etc and computer use compatibility as we are largely switching from a UI driven world to the agentic control surfaces and onto full automation. We have 100 ranking areas you can check out with an overall open ranking here: https://t.co/V6XRMME0Ib

Then we looked at the processes that startups do and how the vendors rank for the sub steps or process as a whole and how this changes across geos. Open processes: https://t.co/iSQ90poYxq

Then we started to hack on an open repo for startups that would contain all the components we are going to need for a common foundation for founders across the globe even if our gov processes vary so much from Bengaluru to SF or Lisbon to Shenzhen. The founder spirit is geo-invariant.

We have looked at special founder/startup situations, the business logic that will make open modules for the startup that we can hack on together, ranked law firms, government services and interfaces, stacks that go well together. We have mapped the law and lore that maps to startups and the schemas that make up the data objects and documents. But also the open documents and the missing gaps. MUCH TO DO.

All the BS processes and fluff work that founders waste their time on needs to goto zero. I want to see more supersonic planes, cancer drugs, seemingly impossible missions done and increase the bang for buck founders have with their funding.

This is a work in progress and we are keen for the community to come hack on the repo with us here: https://t.co/ecZZRU9iX4

Lets get into the structure of the general repo and the visualizations we made on https://t.co/XEYK9ipnfI site with example links:

- Open rankings: https://t.co/V6XRMME0Ib

- Open rankings example (online payments): https://t.co/1kXHZCVfIi

- Open ranking example 2 (cap table): https://t.co/oqBjatGkfW

- Open processes: https://t.co/iSQ90poYxq

- Open process example (Incorporate C-Corp) https://t.co/pxKUXpW03D

- Open situations that founders face: https://t.co/AFzAp5FRPk

- Open startup simulator (you can test our different initial starting conditions): https://t.co/QqPek01J7K

- Open modules (e.g. cap table, payroll logic etc - we'd love help improving these) https://t.co/sfzIhgAJYS

- Open law (we are interested in how law changes the processes, situations and normalizing this over time) https://t.co/5yJnYbC0bk

- Open lore (we are interested in the historical lore of startups, the rules of thumb and heuristics that might guide your agent): https://t.co/gjliXoQwe1

- Open fields (we are interested in how the schema for the data connects to the open modules, business logic, open documents and artifacts of each process eg how is a EIN defined?) https://t.co/59rcEXhnCx

- Open documentation (eg SAFE notes and missing! docs) https://t.co/BbvBow2Olt

We have looked at YC companies as well in terms of which ones do well agentically: https://t.co/snnJ83r9ly

We are interested in stacks and how people are changing their work: https://t.co/wFHoew5V9I

We are interested in what is automatable and where the agentic ceiling is currently and how to push that up in all areas: https://t.co/WmTDjmNyV4

There is more for you to explore and a lot more coming in terms of how you will be able to navigate business in an optimal way in your chosen surface area; whether you are hanging in grokbot, dots, muse, claude, terminal, chat, or whatever is coming up in this exciting time.

We have a lot of data to collect, clean up and help agents navigate the vast landscape emerging functionality the entire startup ecosystem has to offer.

Come join us getting your vendor in, ranked or that access pattern you have wanted or getting the data more accurate in terms of which vendor is best for a process or steps. Or open a module of something that currently cost money that could be free.

Also come play in our discord for founders and join the chaos (we can solve each others issues including fund raising tips from me personally): https://t.co/AmBtzFy0Bz

It's time to lift all the boats in the harbor and I'm extremely excited as to what the community of hackers and painters will hack into the repo, what asks they will have and whether we can shift normalization of processes globally, gov agentic interfaces and have common repo for founders that grows over time. I expect a lot of experimentation along the way, bugs and upside...

I appreciate our backers having faith in us as well from @ycombinator with @garrytan to @immad doing a sizable check (congrats on $1bn rev homie) to @darbyw (congrats on Stripe buying @clerkyinc), @drewhouston form @Dropbox and also @pioneer_fund @tomerlondon cto @GustoHQ and hopefully this is 'boring' and complex enough for Charlie Songhurst :> @delingpole @Liquid2V @ivolo from @segment @ryanpowe @sonicaghi of @kong @DellyTamer+ other supporters (@michaelwfrank, Fundamental ventures and if I missed you sorry moving fast!).

[And don't worry, all vendor rankings are open scoring methods so no favors are being done if someone backed us and is a vendor they have to compete with how agentic and automatable they are just like anyone else.]

PS: we have bugs and many quality upgrades to make but thought better to go out early and fix as a community.

PPS: we have other stuff to launch we just thought this was a great place to start and have 200 PRs coming out pretty soon but I still want to know what is broken or doesnt make sense or inaccurate.

Special thanks to current and past team members for getting us here and all the experiments we did you know who you are.

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

If a Somali commits a crime in Minnesota he’s Somali but if he saves 20 kids on a runaway school bus he’s a Minnesota Man

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune

[autumn! @auautumntumn]

Eric Pratt, the republican running for Angie Craig's open seat in MN-02, left the AI restating his prompt on his website.

"The President is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs."

lmfao

[Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @Chasten]

Amy Acton's estranged mother lost custody of her children after her second husband was charged with rape and indicted by a grand jury. In court, Amy's mother stood by her husband instead of her twelve-year-old daughter. They haven't spoken since that day in court, nearly 50 years ago.

Politics has become such a disappointing sport of outrage-fueled mud-slinging, personal attacks targeting families, and blatant lies designed to divide. Candidates should debate the issues and focus on convincing voters that their plans and leadership will make life better. That's what politics should be about: bringing people together. Stunts like today's attack ad against Dr. Acton are beneath anyone seeking to lead. https://t.co/ukLkim9qCP

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Interest payments on the debt have exceeded 3% of GDP only twice since 1940—in 1990 and today.

In 1990, Congress responded by passing a law to reduce the federal deficit by raising taxes and cutting health spending.

In 2026, Congress responded by doing as close to nothing as is possible and the only major fiscal plan on the table is to ADD $1 trillion in spending in a last-minute panic.

[Jed Christiansen @jedc]

Live-streaming an execution?? That’s f**king ghoulish, and (IMO) un-American.

I’m very anti-death penalty, but this is one of the rare cases I have no problem with it. Live-streaming, though? That’s the kind of 💩 third world countries do.

https://t.co/W3rLZFpzmX