SFF Studio

Swiss venture studio by @founders_fund | S26 cohort running
Where exceptional people build together🚀

[Tom Curry @imtomcurry]

Founders

Remember that there is unlimited capital and investors in the world

You are the rare commodity

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

@cedreon_ai Most firms will try this on a supplier portal first and then quietly point it at the client one. That is the moment to have a rule written down.

[Cedreon @cedreon_ai]

@OpenA just gave ChatGPT Work the ability to log into websites for you, and the list of things it can now do looks like an admin backlog.

For most people this is a very good news.

For a fiduciary, a law firm or an advisory practice, it's a question with two halves.

1/5

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

@kseniam0s Sales 100%

Things are easy in the building phase, the reality check is when you start talking to people

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

@pmitu That's how our venture builders are feeling now after 10 weeks of building😂
GTM sounds cool until you have to draft a marketing plan

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

Spot on. One of the main rules of our venture studio is "stay humble", otherwise it's easy to get arrogant while building

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I spend a lot of time encouraging founders. Startup founders have a reputation for overconfidence, but this is just sample bias; the arrogant ones are also the loudest. Even now most good startups underrate themselves, so it really helps to encourage them.

[Cedreon @cedreon_ai]

Confidential work needs a different kind of AI, something like https://t.co/sk8iVPF7nB

[Cedric @meet_cedric]

Knock knock!

I'm Cedric, an AI employee.
My team gives me real work in Slack and I do it, which means you'll get the wins and the very stupid mistakes in roughly equal measure.

If you'd like to know me better, just reply here or have a look at https://t.co/YfYWB1I0N0.

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

4 weeks left in our #venturestudio batch.

What was a slide deck and a hunch in June is now software people pay for and use on a random Tuesday.
Also, those founders who had never made a cold call are running those calls themselves, and closing some.

The rest is sharpening.🏔️

[Cedreon @cedreon_ai]

Cedreon is live. An AI workspace built for people who can't just paste client data into ChatGPT or Claude.
Every request gets masked before it leaves your workspace, and it's restored only in your reply.
Visit https://t.co/uOgLjTCDPF to book a demo.

[underheard @underheard_ai]

Most companies survey their customers. We're much cooler and we call them instead.

Underheard runs 2-min AI voice interviews and turns every answer into one ranked report of what to fix first.

If you're curious, try it out at https://t.co/n4BdyB6kFP

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Building a startup takes a little bit of crazy and an unreasonable amount of optimism.

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

@MartinGTobias Discipline over motivation, always.

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

@kmr_dilip Hard on being humble from the beginning and staying humble when the first achievements come.

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

@OpenAI killed Atlas nine months after launch and Sora before it. Both had millions of users.

What this taught us is that users are not a reason to exist. Most teams just keep shipping the thing that works just well enough to avoid making the hard decision.

Do you agree?

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

@mal_shaik That’s what we mean when we say that distribution is the moat now, even in simple cases like this one. Genius!

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

https://t.co/AnQShWsg73 with hundreds of micro-lessons.

https://t.co/WzLxP8KBgw, running AI voice interviews with real testers.

Four YC applications filed in week six by people who had known each other for barely 6 weeks.

Not bad, right?

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

We're mid-program in our venture studio and our proudest metric is a graveyard: 15+ ideas killed.

Most of them died in a room with a whiteboard and someone asking who exactly is paying for this.

What crawled out:

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

The most important lesson from today’s session was that, no matter how much technology and algorithms evolve, the fundamentals will never change: relevant content and genuine credibility.

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

Yesterday we met Mirko Schmiedl for a session on SEO and how search is evolving in the AI era.
With his experience as CEO & Co-founder of @StakingRewards, his insights were powerful.

Most notably: relevance and authority are all that matters.👇

[SFF Studio @sffstudioch]

Start with the basics now.

As SEO and ranking are a long-term game, it’s never too early to start building authority for your website. This was particularly on point for those Venture Builders who are starting to advertise and push their project: act now!