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started @useinterval, now @stainlessapi
NYC
Joined December 2008
Super excited to finally share what our team has been working on for the past few months 🙂 @useinterval: build internal tools right in your app's codebase with zero frontend code. 🧵Some backstory: (1/?)
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Congrats Mike! In 2020 when Mike was at Sequoia, he reached out to me with the most thoughtful cold email I’ve ever received from an investor. At that time, “Interval” basically myself, a tech demo, and an idea to build a Peloton-quality streaming platform for independent fitness instructors. He believed in the vision and bet on me. He doubled down on that bet through our (very big) pivot into the @useinterval you know today and again through our acquisition last year. All investors talk a big game, Vernal quietly delivers. At every step he’s been one of the most thoughtful, helpful and high _conviction_ investors I’ve worked with. To any founders who are in search of a partner who is a brilliant technologist, who truly takes the side of builders, and who really is in it for long term… working with Vernal has my go to answer. Unfortunately for us, for the past two years, he’s been full time employed as a little league coach. Well today that has changed and I couldn’t be more excited for Mike or the founders who will once again get the chance to partner with one of the best.
I’m joining @saranormous, @prnvrdy and the team at @conviction! The past two years have been the best. I’ve enjoyed the freedom to travel with my family and (assistant) coach my son’s Little League teams, all while continuing to try to help some of the founders and companies I’ve worked with over the past decade. These two years have confirmed that I love hanging out with my family … and it’s really fun to spend time with amazing, ambitious, impatient entrepreneurs. We are living through the most exciting technological change of our lifetime (of anyone’s lifetime?). We are on the cusp of having an infinite supply of intelligence. We can literally just convert electricity into intelligence. It’s hard to sit that one out. I have known Sarah Guo for years. She’s one of the smartest, hardest-working, most connected and admired investors out there. Founders love her. Over the past two years, she and the team at Conviction have built one of the most exciting new firms in years. In just two years they have partnered with @harvey_ai, @MistralAI, @SierraPlatform, @cognition_labs, @HeyGen_Official, @cartesia_ai and more. That’s pretty good. In a short period, Sarah and Pranav have emerged as the partners of choice for AI-native companies. Even more impressive than the track record is the ethos, ambition and culture of the firm (. At Conviction, we are building a small, hands-on team that deeply understands the technological revolution that is underway, that can serve as a connector between the builders at the center of it and that has the patience, independence and conviction to take an extremely long-term perspective. And it’s fun to be back at a startup! There are cardboard boxes everywhere and a random humanoid robot hanging out in the kitchen. The most fun I’ve had in my working career was the early, fast-scaling days at Facebook – it’s fun to be back. I have been fortunate to work with some amazing teams and founders over the past decade (thank you!). Luckily I’ll continue to work with a few – @getcaptionsapp, @clay_gtm, @NotionHQ, @Rippling, @Statsig – for the rest, please don’t be a stranger. I am grateful to Sarah, Pranav, Christy, Niki and Vivian for welcoming me in and trusting me to be part of the team. And lastly and most importantly, I am so grateful to my wife and my kids who have hung out with me for the past two years and have been supportive of this new journey.
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@kamathematic @StainlessAPI thank you! + of course, it was super cool to see you go live so quickly.
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RT @jayair: Okay I finished watching the video. For people that didn't get a chance to go through this, check out the Internal Tooling sec…
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RT @hassaanraza97: 1/7 I'm really excited to announce something special we've been working on- the Conversational Video Interface. We think…
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My team @meter is hiring a full stack engineer! (ofc you’ll be building apps with @useinterval 🙂‍↕️) If you’re interested in accelerating the future of networking, shoot me a DM and/or apply on our site.
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