Matt Doughty

We make AI Agents better in production

CEO/ Co-Founder of @Prefactordev 🎧 Host @ podcast 🇬🇧, 🇦🇺

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

996 was the vibe earlier this year.

I've just spent a week with my wife 5yo and 3yo driving LA-SF ( w/ 2 days of Disney).

Spending time with these amazing humans puts everything in perspective, it gives me purpose, it drives my fire to win hotter and the idea of winning without them?

Literally means nothing.

So if anyone out there is building going, I need to work 7 days a week and have no life to win. Let's chat.

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

So Instincts $10bn Val. Is this not just tech people in SF using it? Would love to know the geo distribution of users.

Has VCs collective head exploded?

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

So you get half way through #sftechweek and realise you need a sit down. Have a drink. And win some money..

Along with @meetstreamai AI we are that break. Sign up alongside 19 other hand picked agent founders and operators.

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[Yoeven @yoeven]

Surprisingly so many founders in YC and my batch gave up after like 6 months and settled for a cushy job at some big lab or late stage company

I'm surprised by the lack of grit

That's why I'm a little more bullish on international founders, they have something to prove

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@prefactordev first event in SF tech week on 7 October.

Agent builders. Drinks. Poker.

https://t.co/ZzrJdjsGUY

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@sidhdharth I do I do

[Sidhdharth (Sid) @sidhdharth]

Hosting a poker night for Founders in SF during tech week.

Signup Here: https://t.co/mgLKGdNOjb

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@GohilHardy Do most engineers?

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

I've been to SF 4 times in 9 months as we learn and sell into the best Tech market in the world.

There is 1 place I come to at least once on every trip. Pincrest Diner/ Union Sq. It's not the insane plate size or pretty awesome service, but it's literally one of those places you can sit and watch the world go by without thinking. Sat at the breakfast bar, watching the huge amounts of hash browns being cooked.

No laptops. Just homely food and the vibe of somewhere that AI has not touched (and shouldn't!).

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

@MilksandMatcha what the fuck are you expensing these are car-sized purchases

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@AlexFreitasAI Because what every enterprise wants is an avatar.

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@sarahzorah Love this. Just signed up.

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@richardzphotoz @cosign Interested

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

We make AI gents better. That short 4 word tag line sums up perfectly what Prefactor does.

Through agent knowledge bases, activity, behaviour and the up front agent contract, we are not just able to give you an eval that fixes your code, but understand what outcome your agent is trying to achieve and telling you if it did it.

No one wakes up thinking they need more observability or evals. They do want to make their agents perform better. Thats what we do

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

If you see these in SF. You've been Kangarooed

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@ankurnagpal @AngelList Would be keen mate.

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

We've got 3 events happening in SF with some great partners over SF tech week.

Get in touch to get on the Guestlist!

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@Emmettphaley @JeromySonne The number of sales tool founders I've met run by people who have never worked in sales is mind blowing.

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

@datachad Absolutely. The ability to change your mind and take action is a super power

[Matt Doughty @mattfounder]

Coming out of accelerators you get to see all manners of failure states. From refusing to pivot, founder fallouts etc. Contrast that with appeal of a founder in their early 20s with no prior experience.

It's an interesting dissection of why people fail and having watched this time and again, it really comes down to one thing. Your ability to continuously assess your situation and be able to change your opinion and state of mind quickly.

The older you get the harder it is. But failure states are not limited to older founders, of course you need to have a good product, a willingness to get out there and sell, get up when it's been a hard day and put yourself out there, but never underestimate the power of being able to change in the trajectory of said success.

There's nothing new here, but it does strike me that with the huge investment in AI startups and the recent announcement of the a16z of high school/ college academy, is this a bet that the younger you are the more malleable, flexible and more likely to change you are? Or is it as simple as young people put in a high pressure environment, with a lot at stake relative to their young lives, that they are easier to manipulate in a certain direction given the aforementioned experience and success of those guiding them and their extraordinary talent for identifying failure and success.

Thoughts on a postcard