Violette Beaume

creating a hyper-focused, distraction-free environment for ambitious European builders, in SF

[Violette Beaume @vio_bme]

@openswarm Amazing!! Congrats, this is HUGE

[Violette Beaume @vio_bme]

Amazing product! Go test it now and congrats on this launch

[Open Swarm @openswarm]

For the past 50 years, every operating system was built for one user: the human.

Introducing Open Swarm, the operating system built for AI.

Up to 2x faster and 3.5x cheaper. Your apps, files, teams, and agents in one place.

The next 50 years will be built for agents.

[Alice Bentinck @Alicebentinck]

Backstage vibes @join_ef demo day ❤️

[Alex Macdonald @alexfmac]

Hats off to the @join_ef team.

I have attended dozens of demo days; this is highest talent density & best storytelling I’ve witnessed.

Also: the best dressed founders…

Serious aura 🤌🏽

[Violette Beaume @vio_bme]

@miron_puzanov LFG!!

[Violette Beaume @vio_bme]

@Nlacombe_ this is CRAZY

[N. @Nlacombe_]

introducing Promethee, an app that turns your work into a multiplayer game, to perform.

now available for everyone.

https://t.co/xz0hXPL9Lf

[N. @Nlacombe_]

YC is completely useless if you don't already have a cofounder

i did this accelerator in sf.

it is completely different from other accelerators because you can come without an idea and without a cofounder.

for me it radically changed my life as an entrepreneur. i had the idea, an MVP, but no technical skills, no cofounder, i was a lawyer before. so i:

- met my cofounder xtelegram
- went to sf for the first time, all paid
- met friends, incredible founders, incredible advisors
- 1000X my ambition

special thanks to @juliadenoly @GittardAurelien @vio_bme @antoineduchein @Alicebentinck (Isa and Mike idk your @)

[Aish @aish_caliperce]

Luana Lopes Lara co-founded Kalshi, arguably the most controversial startup in America right now.

The company is fighting legal battles across 19 states, has faced cease-and-desist orders in at least 11, and has even been hit with criminal wagering charges.

And yet, in eleven months, Kalshi went from a $2B valuation to $22B.

In August, Kalshi traded roughly 5x Polymarket’s volume, commanding more than 80% of the combined market.

With a marketing team of just 15 people, it outdid(!!) Nike at the World Cup and turned @RealChalamet into the face of the tournament’s #1-performing ad.

Building a company like Kalshi requires an extreme tolerance for pain and a degree of conviction that can look like delusion.

Or, as @mansourtarek_ puts it: you need to have the dawg in you.

@luanalopeslara has it.

No sane founder spends two years fighting for a company’s right to exist, only to turn around and sue the regulator that finally granted it.

Without Luana pushing Kalshi through that fight, it might have remained a licensed experiment without the capital, liquidity, or market power to pursue its real ambition: becoming the exchange where anything about the future can be traded.

I spent months researching Luana alongside @Anastasia_ELW, an early-stage investor building @jointhebridge: speaking with people who worked with and backed her, poring over every recorded interview and written account I could find, and tracing the CFTC’s paper trail.

Ana and I wanted to understand how Luana keeps pulling off things that look impossible from the outside.

Where did her appetite for impossible bets come from? Why does she keep choosing the steeper mountain? And why have the people around her learned not to bet against her?

This is the person behind one of America’s most audacious companies.

SideDoors presents Luana Lopes Lara: the founder behind Kalshi’s most impossible bets.

https://t.co/rWc0YnK5x0

[Maxim Matias @MaximMatias1]

Building something generational? This winter:

$250K - first check
50 founders - top global 0.001%
One house in SF - you’ll live in it

W27 applications are open (link below)

Rest is on you - go! 🛸

[Joel Edholm @joeledholm]

Today, we’re releasing screen-aware one-click writing to everyone.

The natural next step after voice dictation.

Press Option in any text field. Goldfish predicts what you want to write from the real context of your work.

Already used 250,000+ times.

Free for a little longer: https://t.co/evDOMogkZS

[Julia Denoly @juliadenoly]

https://t.co/wIwrEFWzs3

[The Bridge @jointhebridge]

New acquisition channel unlocked: San Francisco saunas.

[Violette Beaume @vio_bme]

@jointhebridge Let's gooo

[The Bridge @jointhebridge]

Hagen and Mateo started with €300 of lunch money.

They turned that into a software licensing business doing over €1.5M in revenue.

They were still in high school, in Eschborn, Germany. Population 21,000.

In March, they told me the story of that first company.

A few weeks later they were on a plane to San Francisco to join The Bridge.

Today it's a pleasure and an honor to watch them build Avior and dream BIG.

[Violette Beaume @vio_bme]

@jointhebridge Can't wait for the entire movie

[The Bridge @jointhebridge]

Hagen and Mateo left Frankfurt for San Francisco

Leaving behind a business they had grown from €300 to €1.5M in revenue while still in high school

They joined The Bridge to take a shot at building a generational company.
Their film drops today at 5pm CEST

Be there

[Violette Beaume @vio_bme]

@jointhebridge Can't wait to watch this!

[The Bridge @jointhebridge]

The Bridge wasn’t where Hagen Krall and Mateo Herbig's story started,
but it was the starting block for what they’re building now.

Starting Blocks is a new series by @jointhebridge

It follows the very early days of exceptional founders who moved to San Francisco to build the most ambitious company of their lives.

We’re starting with Hagen and Matteo.
Their film comes out tomorrow, 20 August, at 5pm CEST.

Be there.

[Maxim Matias @MaximMatias1]

https://t.co/lTaPhdKWdG