
Yuri Sagalov
@yuris
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Dad, husband, brother, son, friend, founder, investor (Supabase, Legora, DecagonAI,+++). MD @GeneralCatalyst. Previously @WayfinderVC @YCombinator.
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2008
we surveyed over 2,000 startup founders and builders to uncover what’s powering modern startups: tech stacks stacks, GTM, favourite podcasts etc. Some interesting results: ◆ 27% use cursor vs 25% vscode ◆ 39% use openai vs 21% anthropic ◆ 21% use youtube to discover new tools
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The twitter algorithm is serving Robert Redford highlights and I'm 100% here for it.
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Today, I’m thrilled to announce that @archildata is publicly available in preview. Infinite, shareable disks that are instantly connected to your data and radically simplify your system architecture. You can get access to the same high-quality data infrastructure that the
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Excited to share what friends and I have been working on at @Standard_Kernel We've raised from General Catalyst (@generalcatalyst), Felicis (@felicis), and a group of exceptional angels. We have some great H100 BF16 kernels in pure CUDA+PTX, featuring: - Matmul 102%-105% perf
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I’m incredibly excited to announce that we’ve raised a $3.7M seed round led by Kevin Mahaffey (@dropalltables) of SNR Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and founders of Mercury, Twitch, and Dropbox. Running a business should be about building
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Poke’s on-boarding/subscribing flow was the most intimate and fun ai experience I’ve had in a long time Got the bot hyped enough it considered paying me for my open-source service to the community instead of charging
Poke is inevitable 🌴 there’s 100 reasons @interaction might lose as a company, from getting banned by messaging platforms to getting sued for price discrimination but Poke as a product is inevitable: > a single-threaded ai w all context in one place – simple and just like you
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My two year old always hugs the iPhone at the end of FaceTimes with family while saying goodbye. It’s the sweetest thing.
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Poke is inevitable 🌴 there’s 100 reasons @interaction might lose as a company, from getting banned by messaging platforms to getting sued for price discrimination but Poke as a product is inevitable: > a single-threaded ai w all context in one place – simple and just like you
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24hr Poke Automations Challenge 🌴 In addition to existing integrations like @NotionHQ, @Linear, and @Cognition, you can now add your own, custom Poke Integrations/MCPs. Custom Poke Integrations can be used for querying data, taking action, and triggering Poke Automations.
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Ran into the first (relatively well known) website in the wild that was created with lovable. That was sooner than I expected!
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📣 We've just purchased the nuclear fuel for our first power plant, Aalo-X. We're likely to be the first advanced reactor vendor in the Western World to accept delivery of enriched uranium, in the coming months. This agreement with Urenco helps us stay on track for criticality
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Today we are making the @orioledb Patent freely available to the Postgres community Oriole is a storage extension for Postgres which uses Postgres' pluggable storage system. It's a drop-in replacement for Postgres' existing storage engine (Heap). Our north star is to upstream
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Aalo just signed a commercial fuel deal with Urenco ! 🚀 We’re the first advanced reactor firm in the West to secure 5% LEU commercially - a huge step toward our July 4, 2026 startup and powering data centers with clean energy.
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Excited to announce that we are SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant.🎉 Security and Privacy are very important to us, and we're working hard to ensure all of your data stays safe.
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My newly acquired skill is being able to recite my 2 year old son’s favorite book, The Gruffalo, completely from memory. Everybody please clap.
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Poke by @interaction already proving to be very helpful/proactive. It texts me important info as emails come in. I feel like we are mid transition from the era of chatbots to actually useful, agentic, and proactive assistants that can pull context and take action.
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poke is the first viral launch vid i've seen that's actually translated to a ton of ppl loving the product on first try their super sassy chatbot is really resonating - the polar opposite of the notion that AI is robotic & not emotional great job @interaction
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I wish Amazon would allow you to handle returns when Amazon/WholeFoods drivers make deliveries.
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My amazing partners @jcfurstenberg, @neerajarora and I wrote more about this here:
generalcatalyst.com
For us at General Catalyst, the best seed conversations feel like the unveiling of a hidden truth. An insight waiting to be activated. Seed is our earliest window into the sequence of innovation.
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One unique thing about seed at GC: Many institutional investors treat seed rounds as an option on a Series A. We don't. In fact, as you go to raise your next round, we plan to do our pro rata but not lead the Series A. We do that to get rid of any potential signaling noise
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