Caleb Elston
@calebelston
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Building something new. Co-founder & Former CEO of @delighted (Acquired by @qualtrics)
Joined March 2007
After 10 years of building @delighted, @madeofcode and I have decided it’s time to pass the baton to @cstudt as we’ll be stepping down to create space for our next adventure. I want to thank our entire team, our customers, and everyone who supported us along the way!
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Now beginning to offer fully autonomous freeways rides in SF, LA, and PHX! Express interest in the Waymo app to be one of the first in the world to relax on freeways with no one behind the wheel. More about this and our SF Bay Area expansion at https://t.co/6cnm1PirMo
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Three and a half years after "Operating well – what I learned at Stripe" I have some updates: Startup Operating Principles https://t.co/PFo55Pvw1T
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I love the description of Pixar as a miracle factory. How do you create the conditions to make special outcomes more likely? @ROWGHANI helped build Pixar, working closely with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull in their golden era. He also worked closely with the Twitter founders and
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Big deal.
All systems go at @flySFO! We’ve been approved by the airport to begin operations, and will start testing soon. More here: https://t.co/0SGUdcl3sj
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We’ve (finally) added full support for MCP tools in ChatGPT. In developer mode, developers can create connectors and use them in chat for write actions (not just search/fetch). Update Jira tickets, trigger Zapier workflows, or combine connectors for complex automations.
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Warren Buffett's original partnership terms. Now *those* are correctly aligned incentives.
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Working for decades with someone you admire and never tire of is one of life’s greatest gifts. Warren's reflections on his friendship and partnership with Charlie are a reminder of what more people should aspire to have in their lives.
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After @tobi published his now-famous AI memo, you probably saw similar posts from other founders and CEOs flood this platform. But most companies are still in the “memos and demos” phase — ambitious plans and mandates, “AI-first” roadmaps on board decks, flashy features and
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If you ever do find the thing you truly love to do that is also making something people want, all you have to do is nose to the grindstone on that thing, and compounding takes care of the rest! There are few bigger blessings in life than discovering what that is.
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Can’t say enough good things about Ali and the team. If you are a founder starting to scale, I cannot recommend working with Ali more strongly. Amazing human and one of the sharpest strategic minds in tech.
I’m excited to announce the public launch of First Harmonic. We are a small team of former operators who invest in early-stage companies and run what I believe is the world’s best go-to-market program for seed-stage founders. We have run six cohorts of the program to date with an
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I mentioned this on @BG2Pod. Enterprise customers need to declare if they support “open data” or “closed data.” And customers should move away from “closed data” vendors as fast as possible.
Exclusive: Salesforce is blocking enterprise AI rivals like Glean from using Slack data for their applications. Read more from @kevkubernetes and @steph_palazzolo 👇 https://t.co/5bMaTj8av5
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Anticipated and referred to this as the impending “data wars” in previous edition of Implications, but didn’t expect it to start this quickly… Data grab and protectionism underway, especially by those that don’t own their own graphs or sophisticated permissioning layers.
Exclusive: Salesforce is blocking enterprise AI rivals like Glean from using Slack data for their applications. Read more from @kevkubernetes and @steph_palazzolo 👇 https://t.co/5bMaTj8av5
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This should dramatically increase the ease with which LLMs can talk with other web services. The past 20 years has been about REST. Now, MCP is the new abstraction layer built on top.
The OpenAI Responses API now supports Model Context Protocol. 📡 You can connect our models to any remote MCP server with just a few lines of code.
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Highly recommend watching if you care about the mindset it takes to make things people love.
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Invigorating week of design in SF comes to a close with @designerfund hosting two excellent conversations with @ivanhzhao and @brian_lovin
@alhyunsoo and @benblumenrose demonstrated how great designers moderate Grateful to see a seasoned design community of builders together
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Short but great interview with Costco CEO about how they develop their Kirkland products. Frank and direct.
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