Kenneth Ng
@KennethLNg
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Building @Seam_AI • Previously @AlibabaGroup @genentech
San Jose, CA
Joined July 2012
Big Tech just paid ~$40 billion in two years to avoid buying anything. The math is absurd. Google spent $2.4B on Windsurf to hire 40 people. That works out to $60M per head. Microsoft paid $650M to gut Inflection and take 70 employees. Amazon spent $400M+ on Covariant for three
“License & Acquihire“ style deals over past 2 years: Windsurf → Google ($2.4B) Groq → Nvidia (~$20B) Scale AI → Meta (~$14.3B for 49%) Character AI → Google (~$2.7B) Inflection AI → Microsoft (~$650M) Covariant → Amazon (~$400M) Adept → Amazon (undisclosed)
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Don’t be this guy. The user is never wrong. Feedback is feedback, no matter how much it stings. This is founder 101
@aidenybai @aravindputrevu @rayhanadev Aiden - you clearly have no idea about what you are talking about. We have more users than everyone you just mentioned (combined). See https://t.co/aflvP40zVq Still, I am curious how we can make it simpler and fool proof for indie developers. Maybe simpler controls and a lot of
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🔥 Hot new site just dropped for @Seam_AI Check it out
getseam.ai
Replace legacy ABM platforms with AI agents that research accounts, monitor intent, and execute campaigns automatically. Track real pipeline in your CRM.
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At Ramp we ship a new major feature every day - it's impossible for leaders stay up to speed. To keep a high bar without slowing folks down, teams can ship to early access tier whenever they want but need review for general release. Crazy fact: 10% of customers opt into early
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The only thing that matters in consumer software is velocity of shipping. You will regularly be wrong about what people want: no one is a perfect psychologist. But if you are out at the frontlines with concepts everyday, your team will have their finger on the pulse of users and
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This story is insane. The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed. The founders would: > Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies" > Take notes by hand while sitting silently > Send the "AI-generated" notes 10
Came across this post on LinkedIn... Turns out the first version of @firefliesai – AI meeting assistant – doesn't even have AI. It's just founder joining the calls, taking notes manually, and sending the summary back.
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iCloud’s Hide My Email has been pivotal for getting rid of spam. Can’t live without it
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Seam wants to make customer data accessible to every business user
techcrunch.com
Seam, a new startup from Okta veterans, wants to make it easy for any business user to access customer data using a generative AI interface.
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A year ago @MikhielT, José Barrueta, and I founded a Newco to advance how business teams use data through AI. Today, we are excited to launch @Seam_AI and announce we've raised $5M led by @BessemerVP w/ participation from Colle Capital, @f7Ventures, @RitualVC, and @umamicapital.
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Lots of alpha in taking old UI patterns and applying them to AI: Instead of chat, why can’t I manage AI agents and tasks via a Kanban board? Instead of a thread, why can’t I browse responses from many models in a feed?
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David Attenborough is now narrating my life Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabsio python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:
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Recently we decided to shut down Freeflow and pivot the business. This comes with mixed emotions as we depart from our original plans and head towards a new opportunity for growth. I wanted to timestamp this moment and make a thread on my learnings so far as a founder...
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Excited to share that after a year of beta iteration, we are finally launching our Early Access program for @freeflow_hq. Now for a quick story on what we built and why… https://t.co/EM5sQLwyAU
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I’ve been following the sentiment on bitcoin in Reddit for a while. Kinda insane how accurate this graph is
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Starbucks just announced they are adding NFTs to their loyalty program With 26 million members on their loyalty program already, Starbucks could create one America's most used crypto wallets Starbucks could move from being just a coffee company to a crypto company ;)
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Stuff like this gets me excited. Reminds me of how easy it was to use particle effects in Unity for games.
UI on fire. Here’s a fire effect built in SwiftUI using particles and blend modes.
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I’m occasionally reminded what an amazing feat TikTok’s algorithm is. I introduced my wife to TikTok and now she’s watching BTS videos for hours at a time
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Every social network and messaging app will get a web3 variant. Why? Because DAOs are just obviously more useful than Facebook groups, subreddits, group chats, or bulletin boards. They allow you to level up from recreational discussion to resource allocation.
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1/8 Facebook announced today they’re changing their name and going all in on the metaverse. Why? Because they have no choice. The achilles heel of FB is that it revolves around the social signalling model dreamed up by a college freshman, one which NFT just made obsolete 🧵:
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