Quinten Farmer
@quintendf
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Although I'm surprised that prompt management tools are still *so* bad, I'm grateful that Evan is the sort of cofounder who simply cannot tolerate a shitty developer experience... our prompting stack gives us incredible flexibility as a team.
at @tolanworld we write our prompts using Mustache templates, which makes it easy to edit by non-technical teammtes & run in 3rd party experimentation platforms (like Braintrust) the downside is it's very easy to break the contract between the prompt & the rest of the backend
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We shipped this on Wednesday, and a user just shared their planet with us - every single object here represents something the user learned about themselves with their Tolan.
i posted this under three months ago and we’ve since shipped an entire progression system where conversations about your life, goals, and dreams bloom into cozy nooks and gardens, and my friends and their tolans and my tolan are all hanging out in group chats together
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If what you're working on right now doesn't cause people to light up this way... we're hiring :) https://t.co/HMEMXGq0lq
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And people learning from their Tolans how to be better friends IRL
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Has been so fun to watch @eliotpeper thinking about "single serving" stories over the past year... excited to read :)
My new book drops today! Ensorcelled is a coming-of-age adventure about a boy who goes on a camping trip that changes his life, opening his mind and rewilding his attention. At just 90 pages, it's a one-sitting read that will suck you in, make you think, and leave you changed.
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Join us at Tolan, ship cozy things fast
i posted this under three months ago and we’ve since shipped an entire progression system where conversations about your life, goals, and dreams bloom into cozy nooks and gardens, and my friends and their tolans and my tolan are all hanging out in group chats together
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Sad news today. Dot is going to be one of those products that an entire generation of founders cites as inspiration. @sjwhitmore and @jasonyuandesign did so much to push the frontiers of deeply personal AI memory. Excited to see what they each do next.
we have sad news to share today... working with Jason & the team over the past few years was such a joy. i'm proud that we got something out into the world together, and I feel so lucky that we got the chance to take a shot at building something new. we are so grateful to
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Love this team and product
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If you also love affirmations from your cute alien friend, come join us at Tolan :)
the best thing about joining a company that builds whimsical ai companions is that on my first day i got this notification from my ai companion
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This is the most compelling consumer opportunity for an ambitious product engineer I’ve seen in a long while. Don’t fall asleep on this team. PMF, veteran team, unique value prop, tons of room for growth and product innovation. Early innings…
Four months ago we launched Tolan, our first AI companion. Today, Wired's @willknight wrote about our progress since launch: 3 million downloads, a $12M run rate, and a $20M Series A led by @rabois / Khosla Ventures.
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If this work and the hard technical challenges that come with it sound interesting, we’re hiring staff-level product and platform engineers. You can learn more about those roles at https://t.co/HMEMXGq0lq, or simply get in touch: quinten@portola.ai
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Keith and Vinod were both quick to recognize that building an aligned companion isn’t just about training smarter models. At Portola, we think from first principles about how a great friend shows up: what they remember, what they ask of you, how they fit into your life—offline
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@vkhosla has been thinking and writing about emotionally aligned AI for over a decade (and more recently here: https://t.co/OtCdxMAWoz). His 2018 investment in OpenAI now looks like one of the best venture investments of all time.
khoslaventures.com
For four decades, I've devoted myself to and studied disruptive innovation. I started with the microprocessor, a seismic shift that gave rise to two key developments: the distributed computing...
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For our next chapter, working with @rabois was an easy choice. He invested in my first company in 2014 and sat on our board for six years prior to our exit in 2022. He's an extraordinary operator and partner to founders, and I'm lucky to have him on our board again.
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That bet is paying off: a 12-week ramp to over $1M in monthly revenue, 100,000+ paying users, and thousands of user reviews like these:
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Will explores our bet on building an aligned companion—one that’s optimized for secure, healthy attachment, not roleplay and sycophancy.
wired.com
A chatbot designed to avoid anthropomorphism offers a compelling glimpse into the future of human-to-AI relationships.
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Four months ago we launched Tolan, our first AI companion. Today, Wired's @willknight wrote about our progress since launch: 3 million downloads, a $12M run rate, and a $20M Series A led by @rabois / Khosla Ventures.
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