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Ian Tracey

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Building AI-powered data tools @Turntable Prev: @ycombinator @stripe, @pinterest @atlassian

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is @ClerkDev down?
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@marty_kausas Even worse is when they pretend to be a customer and then it ends up being a forced job interviewđź’€
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@CalvinnChenn @ycombinator @gustaf @dflieb 100% man I feel like the biggest unspoken value that YC provides to 1st time founders is opening the gate to bet on yourself
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It’s crazy how frequently Google’s AI search hallucinate results compared to @perplexity_ai It’s an emperor has no clothes moment
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RT @harleyf: “Entrepreneurship is a personal growth engine disguised as a business pursuit”
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@caydengineer @ycombinator @a_israelov @Nicolo_AI Welcome to YC! It’s a life changing experience
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RT @backup_mycelium: TPOT is crazy cause you can be mutuals with a guy whos pfp is a pokemon and turns out he's running the US govt
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as agents drive the cost of producing software towards zero how we think about building it will dramatically change it feels like we're moving from making classical music produced by an orchestra towards making electronic music samples, remixes, plugins, 1-2 player collabs
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@teej_m 👀👀👀
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We’re all out here just slangin tokens
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@scottastevenson - the tech moves too fast to build endearing abstractions - the big players are incentivized to make their tooling better to win devs - many customers of these tools haven’t reached PMF
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RT @mignano: One mistake we founders often make is that we only cater to our most retained users in the early days of searching for PMF. O…
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Startup advice is tricky because the best companies are outliers. During YC office hours, @mwseibel would drill into us: "With a 95% failure rate, the average startup dies. Don't be average." For every story proving "X works, not Y," there's another proving the opposite. The alpha is found in your own path.
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@CalvinnChenn We liked working with @awesomic
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@peer_rich @attio They killed it
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@CalvinnChenn lets goooo
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Hardware people often underestimate the power of clever software people
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Tweet media one
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