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Jared Friedman
Y Combinator
@snowmaker
founder, techno-optimist, college dropout, partner at @ycombinator.
San Francisco
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    Jared Friedman
    Y Combinator
    @snowmaker
    Jun 18, 2023
    Yesterday we hosted 400 top university students at the YC Summer Conference - a fun day of talks about startups.  Talking to the students afterwards, I found myself giving a lot of the same advice. So in case it's useful to others, here is my startup advice for students.
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    Jared Friedman
    Y Combinator
    @snowmaker
    Aug 3
    Gmail being incredibly slow to roll out AI features has created the first real opportunity in two decades to disrupt the gmail monopoly.
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    Harsha from Slashy
    @GaddipatiHarsha
    Aug 3
    Today We’re Launching @Slashymail Slashy is the new era of email, the era where everyone gets their own assistant. By the time you open Slashy at 9am, it has already: - Sorted the important emails from the noise - Drafted replies that sound like you, not slop - Flagged the
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    Jared Friedman
    Y Combinator
    @snowmaker
    Aug 1
    This is a pretty deep analysis of what happens when you try to get LLMs to trade stocks.
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    Rui Wang
    @RRicefan
    Jul 29
    LLMs can't trade & higher reasoning doesn't help. we ran SOTA models for a 2y period. TL;DR: they suck & reasoning doesn't help. - no model comes close to simple static baseline - more reasoning ≠ better trading - when losing money Sol trades less instead of better details 👇
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    Jared Friedman
    Y Combinator
    @snowmaker
    Jul 31
    I've been using QM every day for several weeks now, as my primary agent harness for getting work done within YC. I've been struck by how useful it is to have a long-lived agent that lives in your company slack and has full access to your company data. Before QM, a lot of work
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    Y Combinator
    @ycombinator
    Jul 31
    We’ve decided to open-source a multi-agent harness we use internally at YC. We call it “QM” and it’s meant to be easy to customize, like Hermes or OpenClaw, but useful for a whole company. We use it across accounting, legal, events, and engineering (including building QM
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