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Hey, all -- last week we announced our $27m seed round for our AI company - super excited to officially emerge from stealth @hireborderless 🌎

Alongside my co-founder Sean Aggarwal, we're the first company in the world to bring AI agents to the HR industry - specifically leveraging the power of generative AI to automate and speed up the process of on-boarding, managing, and paying international team members.

The round led by Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and AGLAÉ VENTURES, the venture arm of Bernard Arnault.

Read more about our mission in bringing economic empowerment to the world here: https://t.co/k6cNEIQxIq

A few reasons we're pumped about what we're building 👇

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youtube: https://t.co/ycrYoPiOCB spotify: https://t.co/LxWTAX3STh 
music: https://t.co/cyGeNxHxpt

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My conversation with @jack_newton, founder & CEO of @goclio + @dennispilarinos, founder & CEO of @get_unblocked 👇

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https://t.co/o7q98krgw2

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Epic guest, epic episode 👇

I sat down with legendary entrepreneur, turned successful investor, @awilkinson .

Andrew is the co-founder of Tiny.  Prior to founding Tiny, Andrew founded Metalab, a design agency with clients such as Slack, Loom, and Instacart.

Today, Tiny generates hundreds of millions in revenue per year and owns companies such as:

- @AeroPress
- @CreativeMarket
- @dribbble

We got the chance to go deep on topics like AI, health + longevity, angel investing, and more.

I leaned a lot from speaking to him, and if you're in and around entrepreneurship, I'm sure you will too.

Hope you enjoy.

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@mattybcohen @ripple_ventures youtube: https://t.co/q4iYCqS44N
apple: https://t.co/3P0S6MBUqc
spotify: https://t.co/x8TQQA39VY

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This week's guest on Make It Click is @mattybcohen , Founder & Managing Partner at @ripple_ventures .

We talked about what separates great founders from the rest, why most startups fail, how early-stage investors actually think about risk, Canada vs. Bay Area ambition, and more. Hope you enjoy!

(0:00) Intro
(2:10) Matt's journey to founding Ripple Ventures
(9:36) How Matt decides what to fund
(16:45) The 4 pillars of a promising startup
(18:24) Is founding a startup right for you?
(24:32) Pivots aren't failures, they're evolutions
(33:50) Canada vs. Bay Area
(39:55) Working with a VC
(50:13) Why brutal honesty matters

🎥 https://t.co/kDDD8eN4m5

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@aidangomez 1st, not 51st

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@rrhoover @weekendfund Heavy duty!

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@kirbywinfield Has @pjsmueller told you the story about the founder that didn’t update his LinkedIn for three years after his seed round?

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@lizwessel having been a early customer of two offerings in this space, I think no one has yet to nail post-sale task automation - anyone can “fake” a demo, but what about follow through down the funnel? Legal review? Etc..

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@evansammccann Been doing this ~2 years now. Top 5 life improvement in my experience

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@aaronl33t @roshanpateI hot take. tend to agree

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@fahdananta he’s too busy serving customers

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@jacksonlpollock Truly the worst !!

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@tokifyi @NeurIPSConf Don’t forget https://t.co/pUmxv6fHEi @hireborderless @tokifyi

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@cohere team at it again - announcing their startup program to support early-stage ventures with AI - @hireborderless very honoured to be part of this!

https://t.co/TsFBXewea8 @aidangomez @nickfrosst @1vnzh @RobinGainer

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@kirbywinfield @ckneumann @PanacheVC @kiser_carly @jpmorgan @mbembaships @LeslieFeinzaig @jstoffer @mfridgen @Natebek @MartinGTobias @staenman @MindaBrusse @jenduryeehaller @pikebrewing Spotted @pjsmueller ! M’s game soon !!

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@pjsmueller @natarajsindam @geekwire @breakwatervc Long live PNW builders!

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@pjsmueller @cohere @hireborderless @aidangomez @nickfrosst @1vnzh @RobinGainer very funny (but also true)

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BOOM! @cohere x @hireborderless @aidangomez @nickfrosst @1vnzh @RobinGainer - building with Cohere’s models enables us to deliver accurate answers to our customers’ questions about global employment law, payroll regulations, and taxation. With the RAG-optimized Command R+ model, we can leverage our extensive library of proprietary data to build a solution that delivers accurate and verifiable information, while being scalable from a cost perspective

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⌘R+

Welcoming Command R+, our latest model focused on scalability, RAG, and Tool Use. Like last time, we're releasing the weights for research use, we hope they're useful to everyone! https://t.co/HgESxxEYlK