Pete Koomen
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GP @ycombinator, cofounded @optimizely https://t.co/5hkCw4y95d
Joined May 2008
San Francisco should repeal Prop C. It cost the city thousands of jobs and cratered downtown. Now that Kristin Evans and Jennifer Friedenbach have been removed for overseeing Prop C funds, it's time to make the move. Bring businesses back and fund treatment. @DanielLurie
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Marketing your product to agents is probably going to be more important than marketing to people. Bear helps you do that. Congrats to @janaksunil @siddhantpa1iwal on launching!
Bear (@usebearai) helps companies get recommended by AI Agents like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Cursor, Claude Code, and more. It's already used by Browserbase, WisprFlow, and 200+ companies to grow traffic from AI Agents. https://t.co/MbNjkj0S4X Congrats on the
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SurfOS is an AI-enabled operating system for the private aviation and air mobility industries. Powered by Palantir, SurfOS is designed to connect operators, brokers, and aircraft owners through one unified software platform that turns fragmented aviation data into real-time
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Vesence is a linter for lawyers. It's a simple idea, executed brilliantly by two formidable founders. Congratulations to @HenrikTao, @LudvigSwanstrom and @jakesaper on a great seed round!
Announcing our $9M seed round. Led by @emergencecap with participation from @creandum, @HarryStebbings and @ycombinator. This is just the beginning.
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@ycombinator F25 product showcase today: @MetorialAi placed #3 overall, #1 in software. Hardware took the top spots (when you’re in the stratosphere, you’ve got altitude bias). We didn't prepare a demo. Just showed our product live. Make something people want. Shoutout to
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What is the gold standard AV setup if you're trying to minimize how long it takes for a plugged-in laptop to display on an external (projector/TV) screen?
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Congrats to @_anishgupta_ and @marczog on launching @playvisionai, AI Moneyball for sports, starting with college basketball!
PlayVision (@playvisionai) is the AI Moneyball for Sports: the future for scouting, recruiting, and playing the game. After scouting for Cal Athletics, the team built PlayVision to automatically analyze film for basketball teams, giving them 10x more insights— in 10% of the
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It's so easy to be cynical and sound clever. Most startups fail, so the cynics are usually right. But the ones that succeed change the world. YC was the first investor in Starcloud.
Space isn’t just for stars anymore. 🌠 Starcloud’s H100-powered satellite brings sustainable, high-performance computing beyond Earth. Learn more: https://t.co/euiyEGZaEP
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AI Screen Time Agents (for your household) We put an LLM on a VPN to give parents control of the network traffic entering their homes and children's minds. We launched the Clearspace mobile app during @ycombinator 2 years ago and one of the things we've heard most often from
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Every founder faces moments where they’re not sure what to do next — such as how to go to market with AI products, when to pivot, and who/when to hire. In this episode of Office Hours, YC partners @koomen, @bradflora, @dessaigne, and @gustaf answer real questions from founders
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In our last episode of our founder mode series, we talk to Sajith Wickramasekara of Benchling. For @sajithw, founder mode means nothing at Benchling can be bad. If you start to allow mediocrity, it will spread.
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If your crypto wallet’s touching seven figures, you’ve officially outgrown DIY management. It’s time for structures, protection and strategy. Work with professionals who understand digital wealth.
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Big thanks to Dr. Willis and the Army @xTechProgram for hosting me as a guest judge at the xTechDisrupt competition this week at AUSA. It's great to see the Army working closely with startups to develop lifesaving tech faster and cheaper under @SecArmy Driscoll's leadership.
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"We have gotten many positive complaints that it works so well now that people can no longer sit there and text or do emails at the intersection" Wild quote about Roundabout's (F24) first AI traffic light deployment in Marin's busiest intersection.
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On AI safety lobbying: Fascinating to see the reaction on X to @DavidSacks post yesterday especially from the AI safety/EA community. Think a few things are going on (a) the EA/ AI safety / "doomer" lobby was natural allies with the left and now find themselves out of power.
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I've seen a few conversations where someone says something like this: I've been using an open-source LLM lately -- I'm a huge fan of not depending on OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. But I'm really sad...
Scott Weiner’s rushing to defend Anthropic tells you everything you need to know about how closely they’re working together to impose the Left’s vision of AI regulation.
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Misguided disaster Prop C still needs reform and more importantly we must dismantle the homeless industrial complex that firehouses money to nonprofit groups that benefit from enabling the fentanyl crisis
The strange saga of Marc Benioff: > goes full-Woke in 2010s, donates millions to support Prop C > Prop C is an ill-designed gross receipts tax to subsidize progressive pro-drug policies > directly causes biz to leave SF and drug traffickers to move in > Marc leaves for private
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Excited to introduce: Gamma 3.0 A generational leap for the world's most popular AI presentation tool. Two major changes: 1. Gamma Agent - with one prompt, you can make sweeping edits across the presentation. a. Say 'make it more visual' and it will scan each slide for data
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Hailuo 2.3 dropped on Higgsfield and is insanely impressive. People are unlocking new creatives ways to use it. 5 wild examples + how to try: 1. Human transformation
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Behind every PLG success story is a team that operates like this
we grew from zero to $50M ARR in <2 years, profitably i've never publicly shared our tactics before it's cost us over $5M to learn what I'm about to share 800-word long post on every growth hack that printed money for us I'll cover: 1. Influencer Marketing 2. Performance
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YC now has 15 partners working with tomorrow’s best startups right at the beginning Ankit is a mega-add for us. So proud to be working with you @GuptaAnkitV
We’re excited to welcome Ankit Gupta as YC’s newest General Partner. Ankit founded Reverie Labs (W18), a biotech startup using ML for drug discovery that was acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks, and has published research at ICML. Now he’s bringing that experience to support YC
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We are so grateful to finally close this chapter. Thank you for an amazing Demo Day ❤️ But what actually we're most proud about is how many founders have started reaching out to us to chat when they feel stuck and want to pivot 9 months ago we did YC's F24 batch. We spent the
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Congratulations @GuptaAnkitV. We’re thrilled to have you with us!
We’re excited to welcome Ankit Gupta as YC’s newest General Partner. Ankit founded Reverie Labs (W18), a biotech startup using ML for drug discovery that was acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks, and has published research at ICML. Now he’s bringing that experience to support YC
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