Vishal Vinod

Startup Field Marketing @Stripe 👥 Big foodie🌮 Loves pool 🎱

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

Stripe Projects—that thing that lets you agentically spin up services—is now available as a skill within popular agents, starting with:

- Hermes (@NousResearch)
- Factory Droids (@FactoryAI)
- Warp (@warpdotdev)

Building an agent and want to embed 3rd-party providers? Email me.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

Founders, if you're in SF on Apr 29-30, welcome to join us at @Stripe Sessions.

This year, we have a whole "founders lounge" with talks on pricing, growth, and going global, office hours with Stripe experts, and fun speakers.

DM/email for a free ticket! https://t.co/YFmfmy26HP

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

We're hosting our largest IRL conference yet: @stripe Sessions from April 29–30 in San Francisco.

I have a handful of free passes that I'd love to give to some startup founders. Send me a note!

[Laura Buhler @laura_buhler]

So great to have @alexatallah of @openrouter kick off Build Day at @stripe in NYC last week. We're back in SF and Dublin next.

🌉 SF on March 4 👉 https://t.co/T69cTUpO93
🇮🇪 Dublin on March 12 👉 https://t.co/hh4r8QN1RE

[Vishal Vinod @vish_vvk]

@skanwar That’s awesome! Congrats!! Half marathon next? 😬

[Zach Waterfield @zlwaterfield]

Last night, I had the pleasure of hosting a dinner with some of Toronto's most innovative early-stage technical founders. Our discussions spanned from hiring challenges to effective strategies for scaling infrastructure and team structuring.

A huge thank you to @theC100, especially Anna Peirce @vish_vvk, and @AfrajGill, for their indispensable role in making this event possible. Also, a shout-out to the C100 fellows – Justin Mills, Shang Wang, Jonathan Binas, @vitddnv, and Matthew Schulz – for bringing their unique perspectives.

Special appreciation to our technical leaders – @mleibovic (@JoinLeague), David Hariri (@ada_cx), and @neilsuperduper (@partnerstack) – for sharing invaluable insights from their experiences in scaling up.

Looking forward to more of these events If you're interested in joining one, comment below 👇

[Vishal Vinod @vish_vvk]

This is so insightful. Give it a read.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

From a Canadian firefighter who knows what’s going on:
#canada #wildfire #smoke
(Worth the read)

“I know you may know, but people need to know and understand that most Canadian wildfire management agencies have fire “zonation” policies similar to Alaska.

This means in large areas of their jurisdictions, especially in the northern part of the country, wildfires are left to run there natural course w little or no direct action or suppression. We’ll protect values at risk, ie. infrastructure, communities, critical habitat or culturally significant features on the landscape, we’ll map them and maybe try to burn them to natural barrier, fight one flank and let the rest roll (limited action) but we are not putting them out.

On many of the fires we don’t even try. A number of these fires are huge boreal gobblers (I am currently assigned to a 250,000 ha fire, well over 600,000 acres and you could fit the org. chart on one side of a beer can).

The only thing that is going to put out this fire out and many across the country is winter, 5 months from now. It’s going to be a long, smoky summer for everyone. You have a wide reach, it would be great if you can help people understand these dynamics in the Canadian wildfire scene when they’re bitching about the smoke.

Cheers 🍻 and thanks.”

Pretty decent picture of what’s going on. Thanks for the insight.

In the industry we call this letting a fire “Do its thing”. It’s especially common in these vast boreal forests. Siberia does the same thing. Identify hazards and values at risk, mitigate, let it go.

Cheers.

[Vishal Vinod @vish_vvk]

#C100Summit celebration night! Just passing by in western style 👒

[John Stackhouse @StackhouseJohn]

Jailbreak. At #C100Summit Western night. @thec100

[Vishal Vinod @vish_vvk]

Excited for what we have in store for Summit 2023!! 🎉 Stay tuned.. 👀

[Katie @katiezC100]

Earlier this year I had an opportunity to join @theC100 at their Summit & I was amazed by the level of inspiration, comradery, & dedication to support the Canadian tech diaspora.
Our team is ramping up our efforts to build an epic Summit for 2023 & I cant wait to share more soon!

[Vishal Vinod @vish_vvk]

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[OneEleven @oneeleven_111]

111 was proud & excited to host our first in-person demo day of the year last week.

The event was an opportunity for people in the innovation ecosystem of Toronto to come together & hear from five high-growth tech scaleups & network over some light snacks.

#OneElevenDemoDay

[OneEleven @oneeleven_111]

We hosted our 1st demo day of the year, with stellar presentations from five of our member companies – @VertoInc, @FrontFundr, @OutPointHQ, @caarycapital, @TogetherSoftwre.
A big thanks to our partners &VCs for supporting us by attending and asking engaging questions!
#111DemoDay

[OneEleven @oneeleven_111]

@realventures @PanacheVC @GoldenVentures @OMERSVentures @FirstAscentVC @Whitecapvp @WittingtonVC @r13vc @informationvp @frameworkvc @GenVenVC

[OneEleven @oneeleven_111]

Our pleasure to host so many of our VC partners today for a briefing on 111's upskilling program curriculum, quickly becoming the talk of our startup ecosystem. Thanks to all for spending the day with us!

[Vishal Vinod @vish_vvk]

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