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[Victor Cardenas Codriansky @victorcardenas]

We raised $60M for this moment: Introducing Slash Global USD (in partnership w/ @base).

It's the first banking platform that lets you open a USD account without an LLC, EIN, or the rampant account closures they call "account safety".

It took major legislative changes AND 3 years to pull this off.

Here's what makes it so different:

1. Banking without an LLC. Before Slash: You needed a LLC, $1K in fees, a virtual address, and a U.S. tax ID. With Slash you get a real U.S. account & routing number in ~10 minutes with your foreign documents.

2. No more hefty fees. PayPal charges a 3-4% conversion fee. We let you receive USD and crypto (USDC) with NO fees. Not enough? We pay you up to 4.5% cash rewards just for holding your money with us.

3. Account freezes. The big guys love flagging success as “fraud”. We're built for fast moving founders. We'll never wrongfully freeze your funds. I'm putting my money where my mouth is: If we do, I'll wire $10K to a charity of your choice.
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In 2021, I dropped out of the number 1 school in America as a Venezuelan immigrant to build Slash. I pivoted the business 2x before getting our first customer.

Today:
- 3,000 businesses use @slashapp
- We bought the domain Slash . com for $1M
- $4B is spent on our credit cards every year

And we just raised $41M from the people who built fintech: @MenloVentures @NEA @ycombinator @goodwatercap
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To celebrate this launch, we're giving away our internal AI finance Agent free.

It watches your bank accounts 24/7. Flags double charges. Cancels forgotten subscriptions.

It saved us $39,000 last month.

You don’t need a Slash account. It works with any bank.

Retweet + comment “Slash” and I’ll send you a free access link.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@maskys_ In what ways is Figma a competitor?

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@jordanmoore @fehler @round How do you think the market changed between 2017 and now? It looks like they raised around $20 million but closed down a year later.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@jignesh248 @debarghya_das Here's a google programmable search for the blogs in that repo!
https://t.co/3snACwOK6m

[Marko @mrkarezina]

To help quickly find in-depth articles from engineering blogs, @maskys_ and I put together a Google Programmable Search for the 650 blogs listed here https://t.co/dJdI0zgRE3. Search: https://t.co/utNdg8AwYI

[Marko @mrkarezina]

For example, if you're searching for "Lucene" you can find case studies from Twitter, Linkedin, and Slack on how they set up their search infrastructure.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

To help quickly find in-depth articles from engineering blogs, @maskys_ and I put together a Google Programmable Search for the 650 blogs listed here https://t.co/dJdI0zgRE3. Search: https://t.co/utNdg8AwYI

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Way too often, I miss high-quality resources since they're not focused on SEO and ranking low in Google search results. For example an obscure blog that is only discoverable in a curation of links like awesome lists on Github or through Twitter.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@gsivulka @RoamResearch Very exciting!

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Loving @hebbia! Really powerful tool.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Also do the models run in the browser or cloud?

[Marko @mrkarezina]

An idea related to @RoamResearch is automatically highlighting parts relevant to what you're currently researching. Based on what's in your notes or other services you write in (email, Slack, etc). Then displaying your related notes/ideas beside the highlight.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Imagine being able to bring your own algorithm for suggesting content on Twitter, Youtube, etc. You could have a marketplace to choose a template algorithm and a UX to customize it (re-ranking approach, add useful data from different service).

[jack @jack]

We’re inspired by the market approach suggested by Dr. Stephen Wolfram before this committee in June 2019. Enabling people to choose algorithms created by third parties to rank and filter their content is an incredibly energizing idea that’s in reach. https://t.co/Oavx4xVskC

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@btohtoh @bierlingm Thinking the same thing! Imagine not just in Roam but when reading or writing elsewhere.

https://t.co/AzXPA3NG5j

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Anyone feel like you have a lot of notes/ideas but can't always remember them when they're relevant? Would a chrome extension that surfaces these notes using NLP when they're relevant (e.g. when writing a new note or reading an article) be helpful? #roamcult

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Eventually we'll even have an overwhelming amount of notes, saved content, ideas. This is where NLP + graph ML will help make connections between ideas we can't even remember. For example making a connection from the tweet you're reading to an interesting idea you had years ago.

[Brandon Toner @brandontoner]

My goal is to have a way to pull *resonance content* from every infinite feed I engage with...
- Twitter
- Email
- Insta
- Conversation
- Articles / Books

Constantly taking bits from the river to the shore.

Eternalizing the good stuff. For resurfacing and building.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@brandontoner I wonder if this is on the @RoamResearch roadmap.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@brandontoner Would suggestions for what to link be helpful? I feel as our graphs grow it will get harder to remember relevant things to link. I'm think that's the next step of the "2nd brain" idea since suggestions for what to link let you go beyond what's just in your memory.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

@brandontoner Service for surfacing relevant ideas / content to what you're doing right now. For example ideas from a prev conversation related to the blog you're reading. Is there a service that provides proactive suggestions for which notes/saved content would be useful at the moment?

[Marko @mrkarezina]

This would help make connections to notes in your knowledge graph you might never think of otherwise.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Anyone feel like you have a lot of notes/ideas but can't always remember them when they're relevant? Would a chrome extension that surfaces these notes using NLP when they're relevant (e.g. when writing a new note or reading an article) be helpful? #roamcult

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Essentially a better way to navigate the collective knowledge of the whole team than something like Confluence or Google Docs.

[Marko @mrkarezina]

Would an enterprise version of @RoamResearch be a good tool to manage a team's knowledge on something like market research?

[Marko @mrkarezina]

For example, if you have an "Interviews" page and interview notes with backlinks to ideas mentioned. You can immediately get context on ideas seeing where they come up across Interviews, Survey reporting, Analysis ...