Ka Ling Wu
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Co-founder & CEO @upsolveai ( @ycombinator W24) | Customer-facing analytics & reporting as a service, powered by AI | Ex- @PalantirTech | kaling @upsolve .ai
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We are proud to be backed by
@ycombinator
! 🚀
@upsolveAI
@sbalanovich
#startups
#founders
#buildinpublic
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#YC
W24 Post Mortem
@daltonc
parted ways with the batch by sharing some wisdom on how to stay alive with our startups post
@ycombinator
.
Some quotes I love the most from his parting words:
"Stay sane and don't let your startup die"
"Building a large startup from this day
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Day 20 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Incredible how 20 days at
@ycombinator
just zipped by. Today, we arrived at the Y Combinator office extra early to take discovery calls and provide feedback on founders' products before the main YC Batch Event: Sales Mini Conference.
A huge shoutout
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Day 81 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
One of the coolest things about being part of
@ycombinator
is the opportunity to attend events like the Investor Reception tonight. We met many potential investors, as well as investors who had a high conviction about us and what we are building and
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Random
@ycombinator
reflection
One side effect of
#yc
is that you are constantly being reminded heros are mere mortals. They were in the exact same shoes as any of us a few years ago. All they did was doing that one bit extra relentlessly in every single aspects consistently for
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Day 31 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Today was probably the most anticipated day for me at YC. We got to hear from
@paulg
and
@jesslivingston
. I don't remember when I first read one of PG's essays 📜, but "Do Things That Don't Scale" is definitely one that shaped me immensely in how I
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We've started
#buildinginpublic
during our
@ycombinator
batch time. I will be looking to give an update everyday here. Today is day 16 of 81 and I will start it off by summarizing some key learnings we've learnt over the past 15 days:
1. Build thing that people want (YC classic)
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Day 80 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Come meet Dash 🐳, our friendly dashboard builder! 📊
One more day to go until Demo Day 📽. If you are coming to
@ycombinator
's W24 Investor Reception tomorrow, come find us on the 3rd floor. Spot the white t-shirt and the giant narwhal 🐳 on our
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If you need to offer AI-based analytics, listen to
@garrytan
and give us a try!
If you need to offer AI-based analytics give
@upsolveAI
(YC W24) a look. They let startups offer analytics dashboards and a smart conversational AI agent
Really smart ex-Palantir team
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Day 37 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Last week, I missed 2 out of 5 daily posts, but for a good reason...
We were sprinting non-stop to launch publicly via
@ycombinator
. My sleep-deprived brain chose 30 minutes of extra sleep over writing the daily update (Yes, in case you're wondering,
🐳
@upsolveAI
(YC W24) helps companies build & offer analytics to their customers. Build dashboards by asking AI or via drag & drop. Embed as native components, and greet your users with in-product action recommendations.
Congrats on the launch,
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The dopamine hit you get when it's
@ycombinator
W24 Alumni Demo Day, and you wake up with a slew of YC alumni love and interests ❤️
#founders
#startups
#founderstories
#startupjourney
#buildinpublic
#YCombinator
#demoday
@upsolveAI
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Day 33 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Guess who else besides
@sbalanovich
and I are doing
@ycombinator
?
The answer: Our respective partners.
Our partners, Anastasia and Hassana, happened to be visiting us the same week. They flew a long way, from Miami and Boston 🛫 . So we seized the
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One thing about taking
@Uber
in SF: I get a lot of drivers who spotted my Chinese name and ask if I speak Mandarin. Before I even answer, they already started speaking to me in Mandarin 😅 It could get stressful because they expect me to be highly fluent but it’s more like my
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Day 39 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Only in
#SanFrancisco
/
#SiliconValley
can you casually find several unicorn founders under the same roof. 🦄
It was fantastic to hear from
@GarrettLord
,
@sashaorloff
,
@mlz
, and
@danielyanisse
about their experiences in building their own version of
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#demo
is life.
Great to be back at my Alma Mater
@BrownUniversity
for my 10th year reunion and also bring
@upsolveAI
with me to attend the startup fair organized by
@BrownEship
.
It was great fun to talk about
#Dash
to all the
#Brown
alumni, and even cooler to run into two Brown
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What happened when you are
@CrossFit
obsessed and are also a AI startup co-founder, you missed your WOD because you are doing
@ycombinator
and
#CrossFit
Open is already upon us? 🏋️
You nerd out on your Crossfit Open stats using your own AI platform to dogfood. 🤓
#founders
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We made it to Time Square! Very cool to see
@upsolveAI
's logo in the middle of NYC 🗽
Upsolve AI will be featured during the 52nd minute of every hour until Sunday, 5/12. If you manage to spot it and take a selfie with it, share with us in this post and we will send you Upsolve
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Day 17 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Tuesday is the day of the week that is packed with
#ycombinator
meetings and events for our group. Today, we had our Group Office Hour, followed by a masterclass on pivot.
During the Group Office Hour, we worked on refining
@upsolveAI
's two-sentence
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The faith my CTO has and the power I felt when I get to merge my PR myself over the weekend 😎
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It's been two weeks since
@sbalanovich
and I moved back to Miami and London respectively. The below are the two things we are doing as a remote team to make sure we are moving fast and towards the right direction:
1. Daily 1:1 syncs - It was easy and organic to have company and
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One of the advices we got from our YC group partner
@daltonc
is to be "load bearing" for our customers, then we know we are building something people want and need.
So it's a great feeling waking up to see one of our customers went live with
@upsolveai
and be part of their
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You know either you nailed customer success or you are really onto something (or both) when several customers ask if they could angel invest into the company after learning that we are mid fund raising ❤️
#founders
#startups
#founderstories
#startupjourney
#buildinpublic
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Day 19 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Just love keeping a pulse of a young product ❤️ Each event trigger is hard earned effort 🙂
#ycombinator
#founders
#startups
#founder
#startup
#founderstories
#startupjourney
#upsolve
#upsolveai
#buildinpublic
#HWPO
@ycombinator
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I hope my customers realize the ❤️ emoji actually fully captures how I feel about them every time I get a slack ping from them or when I get to see/talk to them 😊
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@koomen
@paulg
@t_blom
@ycombinator
@bosmeny
@mwseibel
@parkerconrad
I challenge all Group Partners to have a cook-off 🧑🍳
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Day 22 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
.
Today, we had the pleasure of attending the YC Group Event featuring
@hdubugras
and
@pedroh96
, the Founders & Co-CEOs at
@brexHQ
. As a Brex user, it was amazing to meet the masterminds behind the product. Here are a few of my takeaways from their
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Why building analytics or reporting for your customer is hard? 🔴
Because each of your end users will likely want to see different metrics or analytics, and a single dashboard doesn't provide the flexibility you need.
⭐ Introducing Personal Workspace ⭐
When our customer
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@OnedocLabs
@ycombinator
@pedro_dge120
@titouan325
@thisisnotfranck
I would argue that’s the kind of demo you know the product is real and live!
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Day 25 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
(time is flying! 😬)
@upsolveAI
co-hosted our first-ever event with
@brexHQ
, Spark and
@RestAssuredMD
. It was amazing to catch up with batch mates in a pure social setting since the retreat. A huge shoutout to
@GabyLevey
who pretty much
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@koomen
put it extremely nicely:
The first derivative of progress is much more important than the y-intercept.
We didn’t realize the impact of the initial progress slope until we are neck deep in our
@ycombinator
journey 🚀
You should apply to YC if you are serious about your startup, even if you've just started.
The first derivative of progress is much more important than the y-intercept.
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@eladgil
The environment is simply highly inducive. And the ex-Pal network is one of the most helpful network.
@sbalanovich
and me started our own venture recently and have been gotten so much help from all directions!
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Day 18 of 81 at
#YC
and
#SF
Documentation or Intuition?
Last week,
@sbalanovich
and I debated over whether to craft user docs. Serguei argued
@upsolveAI
should be intuitive enough that docs would be redundant. I see his point but believe we might miss supporting users who, like
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@coffeewithone
@daltonc
@dflieb
Thank you
@coffeewithone
, your daily product update is inspiring us!!!
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@garrytan
@daltonc
@ycombinator
Yes!!! I forgot to tag you for photo credit. Love the hues you went for ❤️
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@garrytan
@upsolveAI
Thank you for the kind words
@garrytan
! The power of data should be liberated and not be limited by organizations technical capability 💪
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Check out our partner
@MeasurableAI
's latest 📊 2024 AltAsia Online Food Delivery Report! A very comprehensive report showcasing online food delivery trend 🚀
We are proud to support our partner by building out their public interactive dashboard. Check it out on their sign up
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Thank you for the feature
@join_arc
🚀
Customers face decision paralysis all the time, but what if you could provide the right data to optimize their choices? With
@upsolveAI
, you can build & deploy insightful dashboards for your customers within days, not months.
Excited for what’s to come
@wukaling
&
@sbalanovich
!
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@EveryBanking
@ycombinator
@rajeevbehera
@LisaShmulyan
@coffeewithone
@samraaj
@sbarnholdt
@sbalanovich
@WickJordan
@pouyamodares
What a fun night!
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@sashaorloff
Do you have a call with your candidate, walk through this deck, and then send the whole deck to your candidate afterwards?
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@0xAyush1
@ycombinator
Yes it is the new YC office in Dogpatch, SF. I have to say it's a great space!
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What kind of maintenance window 🪟 do we like the most at
@upsolveAI
?
The kind that our customer put in their product so they could roll out the dashboards they built using Upsolve AI!
#B2B
#AI
#SaaS
#founders
#startups
#founderstories
#startupjourney
#buildinpublic
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@ScottPatterson0
@garrytan
@upsolveAI
I would love to learn more what you managed to do! If you are open to a chat, DM me :) Also, I am one of the co-founders of Upsolve, so I am not a total stranger 😄
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@FrancKamugyisha
@ycombinator
@daltonc
@dflieb
@koomen
@garrytan
Thank you!!! can't wait for what's next
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@daltonc
@paulg
@sbalanovich
and I now often find ourselves ask “what would
@daltonc
say” whenever we are in deep debate. It tends to settle the debate pretty rapidly.
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@ycombinator
@wondercraft_ai
Massive congrats to
@dimireadsthings
and
@youssef_arizk
! Still remember the time when you told me that you got into YC. It's incredible how far you've travelled!
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@TheBestEdwinO
It definitely got my attention 😆 And probably it's true that many things could be improved upon.
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@0xAyush1
@ycombinator
@upsolveAI
@sbalanovich
Yeah, we had a batch-wide event there so everyone went to the OG office! Well spotted!
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@alvarovillalb_
Exactly! At least we went ahead and started doing it, which is probably the most important step.
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@coffeewithone
@ycombinator
@bchesky
Indeed! It put so many things into perspective when I learned that Brian once needed to make cereal boxes to keep airbnb afloat!
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@mafiosocapital
@ycombinator
This was actually the exact question I had as well. We tried to figure what's the actual intended sitting position in the designer's mind, and couldn't figure it out 😅 So we decided to take a very quick photo, and pat the dust/dirt off the cushion right after.
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@MaxBrodeurUrbas
Woah!!! I didn’t know the background story between you two. And it’s amazing to see how much AgentHub has grown since then!
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