Pete Koomen

GP @ycombinator, cofounded @optimizely

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@trq212 Congrats! Enjoy the break :)

[Gustaf Alströmer @gustaf]

It's a very, very bad idea to make hundreds of our most ambitious 20 and 30 years olds owe $50-$100M in taxes to the state that they just can't pay. Young people taking risks and starting companies that makes new things like all the tools you are using (Substack, Twitter, your laptop, your phone, ChatGTP etc) is one of the most valuable things United States have. This is why I'm here.

[Michael Makarov @micmakarov]

My agents sent me 355 hours of reading this week. I can't read that fast.

We're launching Spacesheep (YC F26) to fix that: agents' work lands in a space your team can actually understand and work on together.

Try it: tell any agent "share this to https://t.co/SPpC2Gonh1"

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

These are about as useful as crosswalk and close elevator buttons

[Cotool @cotoolai]

Last week, Cotool teamed up with @ycombinator to host security leaders from @WeAreLegora , @HelloSurgeAI , and @material_sec to talk about building a security org from 0 to 1 in hyper-growth environments.

Much of the conversation was around how to get the most leverage out of a lean (or non-existent!) team: starting where you already have buy-in, hiring builders over operators, and using AI agents to take on the noise humans used to spend time triaging.

Special thanks to our fantastic panelists @aluveaux, @ffwang2, Rajan Kapoor, and @maxpollard415.

And a huge shoutout to @koomen and team for the beautiful space and making the event happen in the first place!

[David Lieb @dflieb]

Greptile is going to be a massive company.

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@floinkus @Spotify Interesting! So in the instance I screenshotted above is most likely explanation that the artist or their representative (label?) submitted a metadata form without understanding how it would affect the way tracks are displayed?

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

How is @Spotify still this bad at classical music track names? They could spend $100 in inference to fix their entire catalog.

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@floinkus @Spotify Surely spotify could solve this problem if they wanted to, no?

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@floinkus @Spotify who controls the names?

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

It is, but the separate Apple Music Classical app is not. I'm not sure whether the general Apple Music app suffers from this specific issue.

I like Spotify, I just wish they'd fix this. If they cleaned up their metadata they could solve this problem in every client without deploying any new software..

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@0xWebmaster @Spotify I did read it. It sounds like artists can opt in to making their music remix-able by fans. That's neat. I'm curious to see what people do with it.

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@frantzfries @Spotify I appreciate the heads up either way. I didn’t even know this existed..

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@frantzfries @Spotify Good to know, but there's no tesla support. I'd love a solution that didn't require a separate app!

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@0xWebmaster @Spotify I hadn't heard of this remix feature. It sounds cool. How does this kill music and musicians?

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Sooo incredible. I feel like we’re reliving the early Internet all over again. But juiced 10000x

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@0xWebmaster @Spotify Why?

[Pete Koomen @koomen]

@Case @Spotify This seems like the kind of problem that was tricky to solve five years ago and trivial to solve today. Am I missing something? Or is this just a classic case of Big Company Nobody Cares?

[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

Leftism consistently produces poverty, misery, and oppression because it imposes a zero-sum frame in which individual success or advancement must necessarily be at others expense