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Jesse Heikkilä

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Founder & VC at Failup Ventures. Vibe investing in early-stage companies in the US and Nordics. Previously founder/cto/product

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Joined July 2015
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Jesse Heikkilä
16 hours
Perplexity making an almost 2x valuation bid for Chrome unsolicited is a first on many levels. Can Perplexity even be acquired ever after this if this would actually happen?.
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Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet's Chrome browser on Tuesday, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the browser's billions of users...
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Jesse Heikkilä
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RT @JosvdWest: 🚀 Excited to share a big milestone: we’ve partnered with @JustinPBarnett to become the official steward of the open‑source U….
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Jesse Heikkilä
1 month
Love this new format from @tbpn. New trade news during the hot Free Agency period. Concessions in trade were more money from Cursor to Anthropic.
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TBPN
1 month
BREAKING: Cursor has signed two key players from Anthropic's Claude Code team, Boris Cherny and Cat Wu.
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Jesse Heikkilä
1 month
Congrats to Figma. The flood gates are opening! IPO market is catching fire. We're truly back. The numbers are off the hook as well. 821M last 12 months revenue.91% Gross Margin (Much higher than AI companies).46% YoY Growth .132% NRR .18% Operating Margin.
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Dylan Field
1 month
Sharing an update on @figma: we publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC today, and have applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.”.
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Jesse Heikkilä
1 month
Everyone is wondering how to be more liquid in these mega private companies. Very interesting take from Robinhood. How will they get around ROFR to scale this? I’m sure companies like Anduril, xAI, Anthropic, Stripe etc., would have a lot of interest as well.
@RobinhoodApp_EU
Robinhood EU
1 month
We’re giving away the first Private Company Stock Tokens of Open AI and Space X. If you’re a Robinhood EU customer and you qualify, you are now able to claim your tokens in-app until July 7th. #RobinhoodPresents
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Jesse Heikkilä
1 month
Here is the list of researchers Meta has hired to lead their new Superintelligence team (MSL) with Wang and Friedman. Surprisingly small team to take on the size of challenge in front of them. NFDG’s end of lockout period in Coreweave in August must have made this transition
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Jesse Heikkilä
2 months
they keep shipping. best release of the year, don't miss out on this!.
@OpenAIDevs
OpenAI Developers
2 months
Two new additions to the API:. 📚 Deep research.🪝 Webhooks.
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Jesse Heikkilä
2 months
I’ve been to the UK countless times and every time I am surprised by this. How the hell does anyone use it? Why do they still exist? . Please fix @HarryStebbings, this would take the startup industry to the next level.
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Jesse Heikkilä
2 months
Nice upgrades for Deep Research with MCP and new connectors. When do we get an API for Deep Research though?.
@OpenAI
OpenAI
2 months
Prebuilt & custom connectors, record mode, and some more updates to ChatGPT for business.
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
biggest surprise is how every SOTA research lab is equally horrible at naming conventions! Luckily it's definitely not connected to the actual progress of their models.
@ScottWu46
Scott Wu
3 months
3.5 -> 3.5 (new) -> 3.7 -> 4. Congrats to the Anthropic team! Has been an incredible year of progress on AI coding models.
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
RT @garrytan: Legalize the smartest people staying in the country.
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
congrats to @MaxJunestrand and the whole team at @WeAreLegora! Killer team showing how it's done from the Nordics.
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Gustaf Alströmer
3 months
Legora announced their $80M Series B today. They have over 250 of the world's top law firms as customers. Jaw-dropping from a startup who did YC 13 months ago. Hiring across the board: .
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
not sure what's happening here. Is it a half-acquihire? "As io merges with OpenAI, Jony and LoveFrom will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI and io." So the io people will join, but Jony & LoveFrom team work as consultants?.
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openai.com
Building a family of AI products for everyone.
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
RT @bryan_johnson: Dry sauna is likely superior to wet sauna . Dry (Finnish) sauna delivers low-humidity heat, so your skin hits 40 °C in m….
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
Since when does a project getting open sourced kill closed source competition? The amount hot takes seen here daily calling different companies dead because there is a OS version is getting out of hand.
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Microsoft just made Copilot in VS Code open source AI editor for all!. RIP cursor and windsurf💀
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3 months
RT @henrythe9ths: $15M ARR in 18 months. 35 people. Profitable. @pumpdotco just joined the Lean AI Leaderboard, and they’ve quietly built….
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
Why does the Apple Spotlight search from cmd+space work pretty well but search from a Finder window is a stable 0% success rate to find anything? How can the search be so different when they both look through the same filesystem? Worse than Apple Intelligence.
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
Is Google. going founder mode? @paulg wisdom trickling up!
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Jesse Heikkilä
3 months
Let’s go Nordics :).
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Deedy
3 months
Every single one of these companies were started by people from one part of the world. Cursor.Klarna.MySQL.Minecraft.Spotify.Linear.Skype.Oura Health.Lovable.Netlify.Skype.Zendesk.Klarna. Scandinavia consistently creates some of the highest taste founders.
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Jesse Heikkilä
4 months
Definitely seeing this first hand and noticing it. IKEA area looks clean again, the new administration has done many things correctly. 100 days in, let’s hope the trend continues!.
@GabrielPeterss4
gabriel
4 months
i don't know what sf's PR team is doing but i'll do the work for them. i just wandered 20 minutes on a beautifully clean market street, no rotten smell, no people screaming in my face, no one doing heroin. this is powell station:
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