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Bought my first Bitcoins today. This will turn out really good, or really bad....

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@josh_cohen1 Love it, lets go!!!!

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@law_and_rorder EPIC!!! LFGGGGG

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When I joined the a16z speedrun accelerator, I wasn't looking for friends.

I was in my 30's, married, and had a full social life.

Fast forward a year later and a lot of my best friends were people I met in the accelerator.

The world is changing so fast with AI, and it is so valuable to have people close to you who are also building at the frontier.

Very grateful for all my super-cracked, AI pilled, best friends who are building the most AI-first, crazy companies and teams.

If you are a founder/vc and want to join our founder/vc padel games and community here in NYC let me know!!

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@hunter_nft People not wanting to recommend

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I realized I haven’t really shared what I’ve been building for the past year at Atrios.

We started with a simple mission: cold outreach sucks, and there’s a better way to do sales.

Based on my background and that thesis, we raised ~$5M from top VC funds.

The original plan: pay everyday people (like you, reading this) to share products they love with their friends.

Companies spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to get a single 30-minute meeting with a potential customer.

Instead of spending that on ads, cold calls and events, we wanted to give it directly to you and your friend.

Introduce a friend to a company, they take a demo, and you both get paid $100 to $500.

It grew through word of mouth. Before we knew it, over 4,000 Tastemakers had signed up.

But only a small percentage actually made introductions.

We still quickly passed $1M in revenue run rate, but the product wasn’t “sticky” enough for a billion-dollar, venture-backed outcome.

A lot of early-stage company building is throwing things at the wall. The hard part is knowing, honestly, what’s sticking. When do you give up on something, and when do you force it into reality.

After a lot of deliberation, it’s clear we’re still too early for most people to be comfortable getting paid to make introductions.

That part of the business isn’t going away. I’m still bullish that as AI changes work, the human recommendation becomes a valuable, financially rewarded asset, and that Atrios will help pioneer it.

But we’re shifting our core focus to the potential customer.

Instead of building for the person making the intro, what if we built for the person evaluating the product?

Here’s what we’ve built for those business leaders:

A. Ace, a text-based AI concierge built on proprietary insights from founder groups and thousands of Atrios meetings.

It knows the tools and what your competitors use.

Text it “How can I grow my revenue?” or “Best AI tool for X?” and get real recommendations. 100% free.

The team with the best tools wins, and we help you find them with personalized recommendations from proprietary data.

B. Sharing that vendors customer acquisition cost with you. Instead of them spending thousands on ads to talk to you, we give you that money directly, in 2 ways:

1. We pay you to attend demos and share feedback (which makes our recommendations better).

2. Exclusive perks you can’t get anywhere else: free months, big discounts, even cash bonuses when you become a customer.
We still support Tastemakers who make intros. Dozens of Tastemaker are earning $10,000 to $20,000 a month right now on our platform.

But our core business is now serving business leaders.

The people overwhelmed with choice who want the best tools for their workflows.

The people like who want to scale more efficiently.

The people who want free insights and amazing perks.

If that’s you, text Ace at [phone] and see how Atrios can help!

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@jakeXbjorseth I like this idea!!

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@ladidaix FACTS

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@AnuKrishna_ What got us here wont get us there!
What got us to $1M wont get us to $1B!!!
Ace is stickier because it gives so much value to the buyer and they keep coming back!

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@chanmeetnarang Our team is lean and we are operating pretty close to profitable, so burn is not significant

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@balakumaradrian Thank you!! Excited to be working together on this!

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@iamshackelford

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@Wv3EcACHtizRjZK Yup! We try to prioritize vendors we have relationships with who can give you the best perks, but you should play around with it. You'll be able to see that it will make recommendations whether we have a relationship with them or not.

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@Broothceo Thank you. Interested to see if we could plug in some of your data. :)

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@_CallMeMacy I would listen and want to be the first guest :)

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@brewjohnson LFGGGG

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In person is back.

We spent a few years acting like Zoom happy hours and Slack communities could stand in for being in a room together. They can't.

The best intros, hires, and deals I've seen started at a dinner table, not in a DM. And the more AI takes over the busywork, the more valuable real face time gets.

So we're launching the Atrios NYC event series. Small rooms, good people, no name-tag mixers

Here's what's coming up.

Text Ace from Atrios to join: [phone]

🍽️ People Leaders Dinner w/ Rockwell

Nov 10 · East Village · Text Ace"RSVP ROCKWELL"

🖼️ After Hours at Masterworks w/ Deel

Nov 12 · Upper East Side · ~30 founders · "RSVP MASTERWORKS"

Giving away $2,000 worth of Picasso art :)

🧖 Founder Sauna + Cold Plunge

Dec 2 · Lower Manhattan · "RSVP WELLNESS"

💻 Tastemaker Fridays (online, 30 min)

Every Friday · 12:30pm ET · "RSVP TF"

🎄 Holiday party: coming soon. "RSVP Holiday Party"

Text Ace to join: [phone]

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@zebird0 @speedrun Lets goooooooo, I need some Nose-zempic!!!!

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@_CallMeMacy @speedrun Thanks for sharing, great tips!!

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@jamoses92 Adam was one of the best, nicest and most supportive entrepreneurs I've ever met. RIP

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@bandholz RIP to a legend