Roger Lopez Benet💡

➡️Enterpreneur since 12 |
💭Dream BIG - Learn BIG - Win BIG |
🚀Founder @nextinglabs, @wifimilk, & @themenuzapp |
👨‍💻Ex- @hypex_io |
📊ML Engineer

[Takuzen @Takuzennn]

We are a humanoid robotics startup from the Valley.

For the past year, we’ve been quietly building humanoid robots.

Today, we want to share something special with the world:
Domo — a $2,999 humanoid robot built for developers, creators, researchers, and anyone ready to build with physical intelligence.

Enjoy.
Details at: https://t.co/iCLeaqyj0P

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

YC will invest in any YC company in stablecoins

The new financial rails of the revolution will not be over ACH or wire

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

Never thought stealth mode was so fun. I've always been fan of marketing from day one, till now..

What I learned: if you first start w/ marketing, you build a brand not a product, but stealth mode allows you build a decent MVP rather than a flimsy one and hide it w/ brand.

[EU–INC @euinc_petition]

President Ursula von der Leyen officially announced the EU–INC today at Davos!

A single legal entity for all European founders to grow massive companies in Europe. Online incorporation in 48 hours. No more bureaucratic mess across European borders.

All of you made this happen!

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

Very important step. Building infrastructure.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future.

To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey.

And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future.

To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey.

And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

@paulaguti_12 I feel you. After living in SF for 7 yrs and coming back to Barcelona. It's feels the same...

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This 2011 lecture from Jensen Huang at Stanford University will teach you more about business than a 2 year MBA

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Exciting expansion! @Waymo now serves the whole SF Bay Area Peninsula from SF to San Jose and is taking riders on freeways.

https://t.co/fNgqQtHB7b

[Computer @AskPerplexity]

BREAKING: Google just announced AI data centers in space, powered by TPUs—launching 2027

Project Suncatcher: Solar-powered satellites at 650km altitude running AI workloads directly from the Sun. The physics advantages are definitive—8× more solar capture with no atmosphere or nighttime, vacuum cooling that eliminates 40% of ground data center costs, and radiation-hardened TPUs tested to 15× mission requirements.

Google’s launching two satellites early 2027, each carrying four TPUs to prove it works.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Paul Graham’s recipe for doing great work:

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

It’s a privilege to welcome Windsurf to Cognition. Here are more details in the note I sent to our Cognition team this morning:

Team,

As discussed during our all-hands, we are acquiring Windsurf. We have now signed a definitive agreement and we couldn’t be more excited. Here’s a recap and, again, this information is highly confidential until 11am PT, after Windsurf’s all-hands. The Windsurf team deserves to hear this from Jeff and me in the right way, so please keep everything quiet in the interim out of respect for our new colleagues.

So, what exactly is the deal? With this acquisition, Cognition will own Windsurf’s beloved product and strong business:

-The Windsurf IDE, now with full access to the latest Claude models
-Windsurf's IP, including their trademark and the strong brand they have built
-$82M of ARR and a fast-growing business, with enterprise ARR doubling quarter-over-quarter
-A user base that includes 350+ enterprise customers and hundreds of thousands of daily active users

Above all, we are welcoming some of the most impressive people in our industry, including world-class GTM, engineering, and product teams.

We’ve long admired the Windsurf team and what they’ve built. One of my top priorities in structuring this deal was to honor their talent, hard work, and accomplishments in making Windsurf the great business it is today.

To that end, Jeff and I worked together to ensure that every single employee is treated with respect and well taken care of in this transaction. Specifically:
100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal
100% of Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived for their work to date
100% of Windsurf employees will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date

Every new employee of Cognition will be treated the same way as existing employees: with transparency, fairness, and deep respect for their abilities and value. After today, our efforts will be as a united and aligned team. There’s only one boat and we’re all in it together.

What this means for Cognition is that we’ll be able to move even faster on our mission of building the future of software engineering. As you all know, we’ve had strong momentum and adoption over the last few months. For many enterprise engineering teams, Devin is already a top contributor. As our customer base continues to grow, it’s clear that combining the rapid adoption of Devin as the leading fully autonomous agent with Windsurf’s IDE product and scaled GTM machine will be a massive unlock.

There’s never been a more exciting time to build. Within our lifetime, engineers will go from bricklayers to architects, focusing on the creativity of designing systems rather than the manual labor of putting them together.

It’s a privilege to be in this position, and it’s your hard work that has brought us here. There’s much more to do ahead, and the work won’t be easy, but today is a huge win for all of us in the positive-sum game we’re playing. Thank you for being on this journey together. Now let’s get ready to give our new colleagues a warm welcome.

Scott

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Now you can Airbnb more than an Airbnb

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

Innovation doesn't happen with work-life balance

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

That's the mindset 🚀

[yutish @star_yutish]

So my cousin texted me last night:

cousin: “Bro, come out tonight. We’re all going clubbing.”
me: “Can’t. Grinding.”

cousin: “Always working, man. Don’t you ever chill?”

Yeah… sometimes.
But not today. Not while the vision is still blurry.
Not while there’s code to write, users to onboard, a team to lead.

I’m 18.
No weekends. No parties. No plan B.
Just one shot at building StarCy into something that matters.

Sleep later.
Grind now.
Let the world watch the story unfold.

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

From Social Media Manager to Data Scientist. What a transition. 100% worth it.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

This is the golden age of building

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

DM me with "MORE" and I'll share the full list. Enjoy networking :)

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

🚀MWC networking events Barcelona Mar 3rd - 9th (Links below)

- 4YFN Official Side Event: AI, Blockchain & Beyond
- 22@Afterwork | Mobile World Congress
- Startups and Investors Meetup at 4YFN
- MWC, 4YFN Founders Networking & Drinks @ MWC
VentureBridge
- Founders Running Club

[Roger Lopez Benet💡 @rogerlbcn]

Founders Running Club: https://t.co/PM0EXeReb4