Company Brain
@t_blom
Every company has critical know-how scattered across people's heads, old Slack threads, support tickets, and databases, and AI agents can't operate like that.
We think every company in the world is going to need a new primitive: a living map of how the company works that turns its own artifacts into an executable skills file for AI.
Congrats to @boomsupersonic and @bscholl! They're so awesome and inspiring. I keep an Overture model airplane on my desk to remind me that if a YC company is tackling supersonic flight, then whatever (much simpler) challenge we're facing we can figure out.
@mehran__jalali Sorry, but now that YC companies have gone public I can no longer do this without violating the principle of not picking favorites among them.
Another instant classic essay from @paulg, "How to Start Google." So many nuggets of great advice for kids.
"If you're wondering what counts as technology, it includes practically everything you could describe using the words "make" or "build."...The critical distinction is whether you're producing or just consuming. Are you writing computer games, or just playing them? That's the cutoff."
https://t.co/SJzESHNaoH
"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" is a surprisingly profound quote. When I ask people who've pulled off remarkable things, it's interesting how many confirm that they wouldn't have started if they'd know how long and difficult the road would be.