Hendrik🇧🇪🇺🇸 - YCs24
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100’s of AI moderated and analyzed voice & video conversations in a day | Founder @ConveoAI (YCS24) Market research, sales, customer & employee engagement
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Just moved to San Francisco 2 days ago to join
@ycombinator
for S24
Today is the first day of the programme
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We're too early! But what if? bla bla
Just apply to
@ycombinator
- deadline 27th
I applied on a whim with literally just an idea, no co-founder, no name, nothing. I put one of my buddies who was an engineer on the application just to pass.
Guess what! We did NOT get in. Still
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Just had my first day meeting the
@ycombinator
Summer 24 batchmates and partners 🚀🚀
Incredibly kind, driven, and cool people.
Starting to get what makes YC special
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Day 3 of the
@ycombinator
retreat
3 things from the Partner talks:
1. Be stubborn enough for a long enough time to will your business to success
2. Expect more from yourself
3. Don’t play status games
Keeping this in mind building
@ConveoAI
🚀
@ben_de_smet_
@DieterMesmaeker
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5 days to apply for
@ycombinator
’s new Fall batch!
Let me share one thing; you’re never too early and applying multiple times is a great sign you’re serious about it!
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1) Focus on building something 100 people love
2) Keep running your own company
Incredibly inspiring and insightful talk from
@bchesky
on his
@Airbnb
journey
Honestly, I felt such gratitude for having the opportunity to build our startup
@ConveoAI
in
@ycombinator
Gonna work on
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Still incredibly inspired after the
@ycombinator
retreat this week
Awesome to hear the partners share their insights in such a close setting!
Still can’t believe we got here with
@ConveoAI
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@ThierryBreton
Who decides what disinformation is? Why not trust the larger crowd vs bureaucrats? (Sincere question)
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Yesterday I pitched our startup
@ConveoAI
for 300+ fellow founders
@ycombinator
’s offsite 😬😬
Awesome experience!
Incedible to see the other founders build products their users want 🚀🚀
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Seeing Group 4’s product demos
@ycombinator
The world is gonna change - one niche workflow at a time
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Awesome talk from
@ajassy
with
@garrytan
at the the
@ycombinator
office
Key lesson; focus on the inputs and solving actual customer problems
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Pitching
@ConveoAI
during the
@ycombinator
offsite! 🚀
Incredible opportunity to share our vision with 200+ founders 😵💫
We want to bring compnies closer to customers by
#talkingtousers
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Just moved to San Francisco from Belgium for YC S24. Anyone want to meet?
Living in Dolores Heights!
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Conveo just launched!
Want to understand your customers? DMs are open!
YC S24's
@ConveoAI
is an AI-powered platform that conducts and analyzes voice and video interviews, helping businesses gather deep customer insights at scale—quickly and efficiently.
Congrats on the launch,
@ben_de_smet_
,
@vh_hendrik
+
@DieterMesmaeker
!
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@vanranstmarc
Marc, zoals de meeste mensen lijkt het me dat je goed gehandeld hebt met de informatie die beschikbaar was in het belang van de volksgezondheid. Als je met de kennis van vandaag mensen zou moeten informeren over de mogelijke baten en risico’s van de vaccines, wat zou je zeggen?
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The
@ycombinator
Sunday pace for
@ConveoAI
Waking up at 6am
Working till 6 pm
Team gym session
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@elonmusk
@teslaownersSV
The main problem with block seems to me that blocked people can’t see the “blocker’s” tweets anymore.
It blocks their “right to listen”
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@theallinpod
@X
@elonmusk
@Jason
I admire your moral compass
But it is undeniable that the US/NATO took actions that increased the odds of war therefore partially causing the war
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@sashayanshin
Maybe *their understanding* changed
E.g. having GM & Ford use their infrastructure warrants looking at it more closely and reconsidering (or including) in their model
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Incredibly fascinating event.
Thank you!
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@NPDeMember
@ycombinator
Thank you
@NPDeMember
!
Even more certain moving here was the right choice!
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Being customer-centric is exactly our mission
@ConveoAI
We enable in-depth voice & video conversations at scale, in any language
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@BasileGSenesi
@ycombinator
@brickywhat
@McCarthyCaitl
Thank you
@basilesenesi
! Have not had the pleasure yet!
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I fully agree
We should focus on enabling and empowering people instead of protecting (but actually limiting everyone’s opportunity)
@levelsio
@euaccpolicy
What do Europe and France need to change?
- Stop regulating, start the building. We will regulate when we will be serious at the table.
- Be less pessimistic, more optimistic. The world is in its best state ever; all problems are solvable, and cynics and decel are toxic.
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Perhaps one of the most important posts you’ll ever read
A short summary:
Leopold Aschenbrenner — formerly of OpenAI's Superalignment team, now founder of an investment firm focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI) — has posted a massive, provocative essay putting a long lens on AI's future.
Why it
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@_nickanthony
@ycombinator
@ConveoAI
@ben_de_smet_
@DieterMesmaeker
Status games is about doing the things that make you seem successful (e.g. getting
@ycombinator
partners to like you)
Vs doing what actually makes you successful which is creating value for customers
@daltonc
said it well: status games is getting cause & effect wrong
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@garrytan
You become a bn $ company when you generate the supporting revenue
You only generate revenue if you create significantly more value to society
Having bn $ companies literally means generating an order of magnitude more value to society
People don’t get this basic concept
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@theallinpod
@SBF_FTX
@Jason
I admire and fully align with your moral compass. The debate between
@DavidSacks
and you was also admirable in tone and respect.
Please do try to remain on point. You make a statement, David responds critically, and you respond with something completely different. No line
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Love these
@ycombinator
takeaways
Keeping them close building
@ConveoAI
🚀
Top gems from
@ycombinator
’s partners interventions at kickoff event:
« The best metric of growth is retention »
@gustaf
« It is easier to build a billion dollar company than to get acquired for $50m »
@snowmaker
« We are not the enemy, we are the builders of the wealth that
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I get emotional reading this
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This one stuck with me as well
Stay alive long enough to get lucky
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@p_ferragu
@typesfast
Pierre you’re great
This comment is the epithomy of stereotypical French attitude
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1. Set a daily goal and stick to it.
Written by chatGPT.
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@ac_crypto
@ycombinator
Thanks! 🙏
Don’t think so unfortunately!
The whole of YC is on offsite outside of the city!
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The sad thing is that I completely understand their choice
Meta not launching multimodal models in the EU
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@chamath
Another very interesting implication;
Strong increase in total software created and therefore gdp.
If today because of the cost only x% of software is built, now because of the ~50% cost decline, that probably expands demand by say 5-10x (exponential demand for cost declines)
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