Ashwin Kumar

Building AI agents Voxel, prev @stripe and @ycombinator

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Running 5 AI coding agents in parallel? You become the message bus. CodeFleet handles task assignment, dependency cascading, and conflict detection so you don't have to. https://t.co/YLy9ZMuM4B @elastic_devs

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

🚀 Check out our project Nexus: user-owned collaborative AI - combining federated learning, AI agents and web3 with NEAR smart contracts and Calimero. 🔒 #REDACTED
Read more: https://t.co/34MJmRvA3m
#Web3 #AI #Privacy
@NEARProtocol @lauranear @JarrodBarnes @ilblackdragon @AlexSkidanov @CalimeroNetwork @chefsale @NearBuilders

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

@NearBuilders Nexus AI: Community-trained (and owned) AI agents on NEAR and Calimero
https://t.co/1IDXtJ1Bzf

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

🚀 Excited to share Theta Agents SDK! Python library simplifies creating complex AI agent workflows on Theta's EdgeCloud. Agents + EdgeCloud = 💯
#Theta2024Hackathon

Read more: https://t.co/BKblnKQ22r

#AI #EdgeCloud #ThetaNetwork @mitchliu @jieyilong @wes_levitt @w3Andrea @scampbell @OpenTheta @Theta_Network

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Best explanation of double entry bookkeeping I've seen. Accounting geeks rejoice! https://t.co/CCFFca7h9Y

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Stripe is making it easier for platforms and startups to launch Issuing in the UK and EU with a new internationalized sample app.

Explore the end-user issuing experience.

Copy the code into your own instance and launch faster.

https://t.co/PJPEK9TPJ8

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

@nolimits What if it yells at us WHILE we’re talking … productivity or buzzkill?

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Great post by @rexsalisbury !!!

[Rex Salisbury @rexsalisbury]

for embedded fintech, what's the most important org?

not eng. not product. not design.

it's...sales engineering.

sales engineering owns (1) pre-sales solution design (2) post-sales onboarding and implementation (3) some ongoing support.

it is the most important org for your embedded fintechs to get right.

but i never hear anyone talk about the importance of sales engineers.

product, engineers, designers are worshipped (depending on the company).

if you're building embedded fintech
- you are not a product company
- you are not a design company
- you are not a sales company

You are a SOLUTIONS company.

You build tech (so you need to be great at engineering & product).

But you don't sell tech. you sell a solution.

your customer doesn't understand how fintech works.

the sales eng org bridges the gap. If they bridge that gap well, the org becomes incredibly strategic.

Good sales engineer orgs are the nexus for all the other teams. The collate input from sales, product & eng.

If they collate that input well they can leverage it to make all of those orgs (sales, product & eng) better.

i think fintech need to elevate the role of sales engineers in terms of (1) status (2) importance.

For embedded fintech writ large to be successful, we need to get better at building sales engineering teams.

How do we get better? Start talking about it.

Not enough ppl talk about it...but:

It's the number one request I get from my portfolio companies.

"Help I'm growing fast, I have closed lots of customers, I need help w/ Sales Eng"

Embedded fintech is coming, let's start talking more about how to build sale engineering teams.

We need to make it the sexiest team in embedded fintech.

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

@jsawadd @timothyahyde The Creamery from SF has been resurrected in West Village #iykyk

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

The aggregate revenue of businesses built on Stripe is now around 1% of global GDP.

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

@scaria @juecd__ CONGRATS!!!! 🎉

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Updates to help you build embedded financial services faster:

👩‍💻 A sample app to show you how to use Stripe Issuing and Treasury—copy the code and start building
📝 Overhauled docs to guide you through creating cards, storing balances, and funding spend

https://t.co/cYRA4WXIn8

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Awesome LLM use case by @etpuisfume !!!

[Adam Behrens @etpuisfume]

Spent the past week embedding the entire PubMed research dataset (35M articles, 10x ArXiv) to see how well AI can do validating medical claims w/ data. It doesn’t perform too bad! https://t.co/rUd00RTH0c

https://t.co/1NjLIbnmgy

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Check out this new case study on how LeasePlan uses Stripe Issuing to streamline expense management and boost operational efficiency! https://t.co/PkyKBemnmd

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Stripe actually powers Ramp! https://t.co/YTsBGXZHcL

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Big launch! Platforms like @tryramp, @emburse, @trykarat, and @coastpayments are using Stripe Issuing to provide their business users with access to credit —and now, so can you.

(Stripe Issuing also streamlines bank partnerships, ledgering, and compliance.)

[Stripe @stripe]

Build a charge card program with Stripe Issuing. 🆕

💳 Cardholders can spend on credit (rather than account balance)
🛠️ Customize limits and repayment schedules with the API
💰 Use Invoicing or Checkout to collect repayment

US businesses can sign up: https://t.co/URYdHtNwdQ.

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Awesome startups panel at @stripe Tour in London!

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Check out the latest episode and the rest of the series:
https://t.co/yS0SgIgwXX

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

“Am I building the right product?” is an important question I’ve heard tons of early founders ask themselves.

This series from @Atlas is full of advice from founders for entrepreneurs getting started and new episodes air on Tuesdays/Thursdays through the end of May. @slopepay

[Ashwin Kumar @ShwinDa]

Learn how @Navan teamed up with @Stripe Issuing to turn an idea into an entirely new product in just six months. Navan Expense eliminates the need for expense reports and grew 80x last year!

https://t.co/TNLlpbpf2J