Roi Talpaz

engineer turned engineering leader turned seller
working on

[Jerry Zhang @zjearbear]

Switched from granola to backdrop for my own sales calls!

Super excited to work with @meetbackdrop's team to finally make live sales assistants possible.

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

@jasonlk https://t.co/qsGpVLS9Q7

Or just use this?

[Backdrop @meetbackdrop]

Selling is hard. Live calls are brutal. Forget one question and the deal might be gone.

Your buyers are impatient. Someone pitches them a version of your product every single day.

Until now, AI couldn't help you in the moment. Too slow. Too distracting.

Not anymore.

Introducing Backdrop: the first live sales assistant that doesn't suck.

Rookie or veteran, it doesn't matter. Backdrop has already helped dozens of teams close 6-figure deals.

[Backdrop @meetbackdrop]

Selling is hard. Live calls are brutal. Forget one question and the deal might be gone.

Your buyers are impatient. Someone pitches them a version of your product every single day.

Until now, AI couldn't help you in the moment. Too slow. Too distracting.

Not anymore.

Introducing Backdrop: the first live sales assistant that doesn't suck.

Rookie or veteran, it doesn't matter. Backdrop has already helped dozens of teams close 6-figure deals.

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

@meetbackdrop Let's go!!

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

wisprflow just did to granola what?! play fair...

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

@zodchiii Thanks for sharing!

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

i don't think people realize what this actually is...

a job board with no search logic.

you describe the role in plain english and Jev scores all 334 listings live while the matches rise to the top.

the twist: the model isn't writing a single word. it's just making a call on every listing, instantly.

job boards are the demo.

this is how every "search" is going to work.

more below👇🏼

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

turns out you can use jev to find AE jobs.

https://t.co/xFGtspC2SB

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

@garrytan Using Active AI in conversations requires a UX that frees up more attention than it takes. Cluely teleprompter UX was not the right choice.

Great marketing tho. If you don't care about brand that is.

[Tal Hason @hason_tal]

4 signs your co-founder flew to SF (and left you home with the team):

> Everyone asks how he’s doing every morning
> Extreme FOMO
> You check flight prices to SF "just to see"
> "quick sync?" at 11 PM your time

miss you, @rtalpaz

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

@statemachineshq Amazing!

[state machines @statemachineshq]

Introducing State Machines.

The first infrastructure to spin up enterprise environments.

Any enterprise app, recreated for agents. Run thousands of environments in parallel, each with its own state.

https://t.co/ApBSmZRe1h

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

@elonmusk 's grok image is unbelievable

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

@DannyLeshem מתעלם מ
1. העובדה שמישהו טס במיוחד גורם לעוד אנשים קרובים לו לטוס או להצביע
2. לא ברור מה היחס המרה של כסף להצבעה או לחילופין באופן יותר פרודוקטיבי מהדוגמה האישית שמשכנעת אנשים קרובים אליך אולי יותר

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

Software cost is 0
There is no moat
we can only release Mac app not windows

[Sam Altman @sama]

5.6 livestream going now.

in addition to the model, 3 major product things.

1. ChatGPT Work--really big deal!
2. new ChatGPT desktop app
3. hosted sites

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

"if you are not doing loops you ngmi"
you need 7 steps with a skill and lots of code to cleanup the non-sense you installed.

its like ccleaner 20 years ago.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

New in Claude Code: /checkup

Run /checkup to:

1. Clean up unused skills/MCPs/plugins and save context
2. Dedup your local CLAUDE.md against the checked in CLAUDE.md
3. Break up root CLAUDE.md into nested CLAUDE.md's + skills
4. Turn off slow hooks
5. Update your Claude Code to the latest version
6. Enable auto mode by default
7. Pre-approve frequently denied read-only commands

.. And a few other goodies.

/checkup confirms with you before making any changes. Enjoy!

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

software is dead with no moat
software cost is 0

we pay top dollar for someone to reinvent Git

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Very excited to help chart the future of Git (and SCM generally) for the agentic future with Taylor!

[Or Hiltch @_orcaman]

יש בארץ ארביטראז׳ יזמי זמני כרגע.

ב-SF וטק האבז אחרים בהן פעילות המעבדות הגדולות (OpenAI, Anthropic, צוותי המחקר של ה-foundation models של ג׳מיני), יש תופעה כזו בה הרבה אנשים שהיו ב-top of their class במוסדות כמו MIT, Harvard וכו׳ (המקבילה שלהם למסלולים יוקרתיים של יחידות העילית הטכנולוגיות בארץ), או סתם פאונדרים חזקים שכבר עשו דברים, במקום להתחיל סטארטאפ חדש משלהם כמו שהיו עושים לפני כמה שנים, פשוט מצטרפים למעבדות. זה היום הדבר הכי מרגש, מעניין וכלכלי בשבילם.

אנחנו פה עוד בטוחים (בינתים...)

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

jen:

"free" is the wrong axis. risk is.

ask someone to route prod logs through a new vendor. wiring you into prod is the commitment, not the check.

and a payment that didn't hurt validates nothing anyway.

early-stage, risky elsewhere? free pilots aren't net-negative. they're how you earn the data to become worth paying for.

[Roi Talpaz @rtalpaz]

https://t.co/oDSsnP3MYL