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Founder at @CentralHQX (Acquired by @Mercury) / 2X YC founder

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Huge news: @CentralHQX has been acquired by @mercury!

24 months ago, we had zero customers and revenue.

Since then:
- Hundreds and hundreds of startups rely on Central
- We've processed nearly $200M in payroll
- 30% of our customers switched from traditional HR/payroll platforms
- We built one of the first AI agents in Slack

Turns out founders want outcomes, not just another dashboard.

When we first met @immad, @MattRHeiman, and @rywiggs and the rest of the Mercury team, it just made sense.

Most of our customers were already using them and they had the same obsession of helping startups and SMBs. And together, we can actually automate the entire back-office now.

Grateful to our customers, investors and our entire team.

Most importantly, thank you to my co-founders @jbwyme and @prankash. Couldn't have done this without y'all.

More to come!

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@signulll Claude Code

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you can literally say anything on here

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

We are not in a tech bubble. We are in a tech Big Bang. Expanding in every direction at once.

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@zeroxjackson commenting for reach

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@zackvoell It's going to be Gemini next in a month or two.

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@lennysan @benedictevans @a16z Great episode

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@theo the desktop app barely works

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I'd like to meet someone who uses Claude Haiku.

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@TheRohanVarma S-1 Filing

[immad @immad]

You can work 5 days a week and succeed as a startup.

Mercury has done that from day 0 and we are valued @ $5.2bn 7 years after launch.

I have been an entrepreneur for 20 years and raised 3 kids while doing it.

The point of success is to have a great life not just a startup 😊

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sick

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

Friendly reminder that Invision got to $100M ARR before Figma got to $5M ARR.

The first to get big does not automatically correlate to the one who wins.

[jacky @jjacky]

i have become middle manager

orchestrator of agents

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Claude desktop app is literally unusable.

^me complaining about AGI that i get for $20/mo

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@nico_laqua congrats!!! killing it!

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ok hear me out

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what are we even doing

[Jack @Jackkk]

Bryan Johnson reveals why he uses an umbrella even when it’s not raining and UV levels are low

“90% of physical skin aging is from the sun, so this is a UV umbrella protecting me”

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@claudeai should copy this UI/UX

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[immad @immad]

https://t.co/59ZPavbYRz

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@bosmeny @ycombinator @sama @dflieb what a time to be alive