Every sales and marketing tool now promises AI will improve your results
but they don't tell you how it will cost thousands of dollars and hours of time to onboard
We built a system with @OpenAI for the part everyone hides: onboarding
And today we're giving it away for free
So proud of these guys. I wrote the first check in because of who they are. Today the world gets to see what they built. Congrats on the launch! @TryMinervaAI
AI can now read your customers' minds.
We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this.
Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight
@sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity
Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner
I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
-has raised venture capital x3
-sold 2 companies
-works at ai darling
Feels obliged to represent “the underclass” of SF. Almost underscores the OP about SF vibes.
public markets used to capture most of wealth creation. they don't anymore. The # of public companies has declined 50% over the last 2 decades. Private company market cap now sits at over 13T, up from 2T 10 years ago.
demand for private-company exposure is rational and growing. markets will find a way to meet the need ... whether via tokenized stocks or prediction markets or perpetuals or something else
The biggest opportunity for would-be startup founders is AI. But the most underpriced opportunity is probably non-AI ideas. So if you have a good non-AI idea, go for it, because everyone else is going to overlook it.
Today is a big day for ARQ as we welcome @sequoia and @foundersfund as partners.
This milestone reflects conviction in the opportunity ahead of us — and in the exceptional team we are assembling to pursue it. We are in a quest to redefine finance in the Americas, and we feel privileged to advance this long-term effort alongside such remarkable partners.
We thank @andrew__reed and @Vanthienen_m for leading the respective investments, and are also grateful to @ycombinator (@aaron_epstein ), @KaszekVentures (@HernanK), and @BHDigitalAssets (@TheChicagoVC) for their continued support.
For the builders: we operate with long-term ambition and absolute conviction. If you are exceptional at what you do, this is a defining moment to join us. We are building one of the most important financial institutions in the world — and assembling the team to make it happen.
More details in our careers portal in the thread.
Ultimately, companies are going to have to make concessions on this front with retail becoming meaningful in markets. Started with ipo allocation for retail and it will continue down the stack to create alignment