Scott Silvi

AI Eng. Venture Studio Founder. CEO Navion. Former CTO @TitanX. Former CEO (acquired). Builder. Hack(er). Beard Evangelist.

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

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[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@DavidKPiano @titanXio @restatedev My cto says temporal so much we have a fake drinking game on every mention that would have killed us all long ago 😅

Just dropped restated temporal vs restate into slack and requested his review. 🍿

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

Spent nearly 18 months building durable workflows (on top of Qstash) at @titanXio - so last summer when it came time to build what the cool kids now call agent harnesses and loops, it was only natural to reach for @temporalio. Durable state machines, with a registry of deterministic activities that call probabilistic LLMS is the way.

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@anothercohen Burn the beans! Freeze the beans!! Never understood the iced coffee hype.

Cold brew ftw

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

There are so many people who have spent 10, 20, 30 years in their field who have millions or billions worth of value in their brain.

[Matt Stockton @mstockton]

Domain expertise is 100% the moat. If you are an expert in your field and you can make your implicit knowledge more explicit (eg write it down), you will absolutely crush it if you learn how to use these new tools we call ‘language models’ - trust me, whatever you learned in your domain is much more complex than learning how to do the thing with language models - so just dive in, or find a person who knows a bit more that will tug you along

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@mstockton 100% this. The entire thesis of my venture studio is built around partnering with domain experts

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@ivanburazin I suffer from this too. My wife recently read this to me:

To continue expanding outward you must continue nurturing inward.

Hit me hard.

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@christophersaum Looks like I’ll just miss you by about 16 days 😂

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@LudensLudonauta Wrote about this recently: https://t.co/SgT5Wpx5ih

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

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[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@ClayCollins I reference the woman looking at the cta example in virtually every discussion of CRO

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@vahidf24 @Evalyze_ai claude

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@chrisvxd For the meme I’m supposed to run away? But for you my friend, big hugs.

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

Is now a good time to say I am, in fact, going to be heading to SF in August?

[Rak Garg @rak_garg]

when a non-SF founder hits me with the "hey so I might be in SF for a few days this week!"

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@PeterJ_Walker That's not nearly enough dots per inch. Gonna print super low res.

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

Shit I'm now a month behind schedule. Thanks fable.

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

@wesbos One of the most interesting things Ive done professionally was @teropa’s build your own angularjs. The transition from “I know best practices” to “I deeply understand why to do things all the ways and the optimal path for my use case” was so dope.

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

Watching the World Cup was great. Those fouls brought back wonderful memories of my youth

[Scott Silvi @scottsilvi]

Alternative theory: go where your competition is dumb. Why compete with the smartest most well funded people on earth when you can compete against notepad and spreadsheets?

[Imran @lmrankhan]

I’ve noticed some startups pivot away from markets that feel overly hot because they think the contrarian move is to go somewhere less crowded.

But the real issue is not the market. It is that the team lacks the domain expertise needed to break through.

That quickly turns into negative self talk

The market is too hot. Every competitor is already doing it. There is no margin left. It is not technically possible.

Then an extremely domain specific team enters the same market and figures out every problem the other teams could not solve.

This is why domain expertise or passion matters so much when choosing a startup idea.