Simon Lu
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It’s time to share what we’ve been quietly building for the past two years: @firstharmonic First Harmonic is a new kind of program for early-stage founders. Since 2023, we’ve worked closely with nearly 50 teams across 6 cohorts on one of the most critical challenges in the
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Excited to announce our $11M Series A, led by @ROWGHANI from @firstharmonic. Our AI agents automate and strengthen compliance workflows for financial institutions, including @Chime , @BiltRewards , & @CelticBank. Thanks to our customers, team, & investors :)
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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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Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others. The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted. 🧵
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👋 Sharing a great opportunity for anyone out there who loves to read, write, and learn. We're hiring a part-time writer at @firstharmonic to produce a series of research essays on topics that early-stage founders care about. Probably two pieces per month, each about 1,000–2,000
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Learn more about how we think here: https://t.co/E1NPob92sQ
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Mito just launched on Product Hunt! We'd love to hear your feedback on our new AI suite! https://t.co/KwiuBLoK1E
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Generate Python code using the Mito spreadsheet. It's the easiest way to automate Excel reports or speed up Python data analysis. And it's already being used by thousands of analysts at the world's...
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🚀 Introducing Daft: A High-Performance Distributed Dataframe Library for Multimodal Data 📊🔥 https://t.co/97maBh8Woi 🧵 1/5
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Discover how Daft accelerates multimodal data processing with a high-performance distributed dataframe engine built for modern AI and analytics tasks.
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Congrats to the team at Redbird on the round! Redbird (YC W22) is building an analytics operating system for the enterprise - empowering anyone within an organization to easily automate and unify their analytics work in minutes, without writing code:
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Redbird serves as an analytics operating system by connecting all of an organization’s data sources into a no-code environment.
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Congratulations @sytses, @dzaporozhets, and the entire @gitlab (YC W15) team on today’s IPO! Beyond building an enormously successful business, they have broken the mold of how startups themselves are built. Read about GitLab's story from YC to IPO 👇🏽 https://t.co/76z7eedMIn
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The biggest news in Fivetran's history: we're bringing together the two best companies in the data pipeline business.
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👋We're hiring our first Research Associate at @YCombinator Continuity. This is an amazing role for somebody who loves data & startups to help us evaluate investment opportunities, lead market research & advise portfolio companies. Apply here & DMs open!
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YC's legal and software teams, and YC Continuity are hiring -- come work with us!
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We're hiring a program associate at @ycombinator to help run our programs for growth-stage founders. This is a great opportunity to get a crash course in startup scaling from some of the world's best founders. Please send folks my way!
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YC Group Partner @paultoo shares what a great company like @DoorDash (YC S13) looks like at the earliest stages:
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DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company...
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No one understands digital closings as deeply as @a_w_king. We are excited to deepen the partnership with the @snapdocs (YC W14) team. https://t.co/ahlyqX1xmn
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The U.S. economy may be in a precarious state right now, with a presidential election looming on the horizon and the country still in the grips of the
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We're hiring an associate to partner with and invest in our growth-stage founders! Learn more about the role and the YC Continuity team here:
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YC Summer Batch will move forward some or all of the batch may take place remotely over video.
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COVID-19 will have an impact on every part of the global economy over the upcoming months. Like every organization, we’ve been weighing how to respond and have already announced [https://blog.ycomb...
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