Adam Hardej
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Growth VC @ IronArc. YC investing @ Singularity. Owner/CEO @sandhill_mkts.
West Palm Beach, FL
Joined April 2011
Little Work Update: Joined IronArc Ventures as a Partner. We write growth-stage checks into AI leaders. Recent investments include primary round (Series B - F) in xAI, Anthropic, Scale AI, Groq, and CoreWeave.
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Preventative healthcare valuations looking cheap since they're bucketed as "healthcare" even thought they're fundamentally better business models. Thinking of the ongoing nature of services / customer relationships (smaller but regular payments) vs. traditional reactionary
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Auto Layouts is the beginning of a fundamental shift in the videos we see on here/X and who's making them. If you've ever made videos you know that the actual storyline or point being made is small fraction of the work that goes into a "good video". You've probably seen stuff.
Introducing. Auto Layouts ✨. Add layouts and transitions automatically. Make every video more engaging with 1 click. What took 20 minutes, now takes 20 seconds. Here's Auto Layouts in action:
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Congrats to Kushal and the Extend team! Kushal was one of my first pure "well this founder is great and I think he'll figure it out" investments. Awesome to see him continue to be great and take some significant steps towards figuring it out!.
PDFs suck. We just raised $17,000,000 in funding to fix this problem once and for all. Extend is building the modern document processing cloud. See how Brex, Square, Checkr, and Fortune 500s use it to process millions of documents:
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I found Tella as a user making "how venture works" videos for a group of college kids in 2020. Watching Grant and Michiel survive, iterate, grow, and thrive has been inspiring both as a former operator and an investor. If you haven't tried it - you should - you're in good hands.
Today I’m stoked to announce @TellaHQ's $2.1M seed round! 🚀. At Tella we believe the screen is the most important place in the world. It’s where brilliant ideas are started, where life-changing knowledge is shared, and it’s where record-breaking products are launched. So we’re
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Brexton work is good work! Worth a look:.
Introducing App Coins: A token tied directly to your vibe-coded apps & games, now LIVE on @base. In a world of code generation & infinite software, we need to revolutionize how software is monetized and distributed. Now anyone can generate apps and launch App Coins.
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We're in the NBA Super Team Era but for VC. Pay out the nose for top talent. People say that's not how it works. Blah blah culture built from scarcity blah blah too expensive something something. Then the Super Team wins the championship.
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An example of an engineer who will not be replaced by AI.
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As I walked shoulder-to-shoulder in an amorphous blob of AUM from one area to the next I had the distinct feeling of being herded followed shortly by the thought that YC is very good at this.
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Stonks Demo Day feels like yesterday! It had a different name back in the pre-seed days (front) but the same awesome co-founders. Congrats Bam and Adam!.
🚨 ⚡ Breaking: I’m proud to share that @meshconnectapi has raised $82 million in Series B funding to build the first truly global #crypto #payments #network – one that makes crypto as easy, seamless, and universal to use as fiat. Most of the investments were closed with PayPal
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These humanoid robot at home helper videos are dumb and unimaginative. I don’t want help folding clothes or carrying groceries. I want a robot to maintain a 1 acre plot of land 24/7 so that I can live on a farm without working on a farm.
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If YC is Harvard, HF0 is SAIL. Dave is crazy in the way you need to be to make this possible and watching him build this from nothing in his own way has been nothing short of amazing . Excited to see who their Airbnb or Coinbase will be. Tell your fancy founder friends.
We’re attracting stronger founders than any startup program ever. If you’re wondering why: .- 12 repeat unicorn founders .- 20 teams who already had $1-3M ARR.- and multiple teams who already raised $20M+ . applied for 1/10 spots, watch this video. Reading apps until midnight.
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Better than benchmarks. Also this should be live-streamed.
A few researchers at Anthropic have, over the past year, had a part-time obsession with a peculiar problem. Can Claude play Pokémon?. A thread:
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Benchmarks are the worst. Give us some SHOWMANSHIP for god's sake. We used to have AI play humans in chess on LIVE TV like it was fight night between Rocky and the Terminator. Idc about your model performance on some math club test. LeetCode 1v1 - losing agent gets deleted - GO!
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The deepseek saga was just the beginning of what's coming on efficiency gains and it's going to get a whole lot weirder. A friend recently introduced me to Biological Black Box ("BBB") who's hooking up living neurons in petri dishes to AI/ML models. They just beat classic.
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RT @thejackobrien: I love to see that AI infrastructure is a focus for YC after building in this space for the last few years. We need cr….
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And here’s Margot Robbie to explain how quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
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