Ian Tracey
@ian_dot_so
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Building AI-powered data tools @Turntable Prev: @ycombinator @stripe, @pinterest @atlassian
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Joined January 2012
@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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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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@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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