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If most VCs like your idea, you should probably change it.
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We all know AI has a "taste" problem. We measured it. It’s (somewhat) fixable, but AI judges can't replace human creative judgement. Introducing Design Crit. New research from @contralabs_ai and @world_lica, now live on @arxiv
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Small announcement: I received the Merge/Solo grant(@mergedotclub), supporting my project to make affordable scanning electron microscopes, accompanied by a slew of other scientific equipment. And a sneak peek of what's next :) Thanks to @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh!
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It's here! @henkpret and I sat down with the one and only @davj for START. The episode is about why brand tracking has been broken for decades and what we are building (hint: @timelapsio) to fix it. Over $1 trillion is invested in building brand equity every year. Few canMost brands don't know if their marketing is really working. They launch campaigns. Spend real money. Watch the dashboards. Then hope. Months later, a report arrives explaining what happened. The campaign is over. The budget is gone. The market has already moved. That's how
00:00 - ODF repostedHe took his hospitality startup public at a $2B valuation. Then the board pushed him out. That same month he started over and raised from Sequoia as a solo founder to reshape travel (again). Solo Founders Podcast ep 16 is live with @FDavidsonT of @OdessiaTravel. 08:45
00:00 - ODF repostedHe sold a company at 16. Then raised $3M at 19 without a co-founder. Today he gave the whole thing away. @supermemory now runs fully local, self-contained, and the binary is open source. Solo Founders Podcast ep 14 is live with @DhravyaShah of Supermemory. 00:49 How a side
00:00 - ODF repostedHis infrastructure for 100k users ran on only $5/mo.
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01:16You can now run @supermemory locally. Introducing the supermemory local - Fully self-contained. Comes with our graph engine, embedding model, etc. - Run on any machine, with your @openclaw, hermes, claude, etc. - SDKs to add memory to your agent, or build your company brain. 
"The people who start companies do so out of insecurity and maladaptation. ...and that's wonderful, and okay. That was me."
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We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation- ODF reposted“I was told outright, repeatedly — no one was even making an argument, they were just stating it: ‘You can’t build a billion-dollar business selling into SMBs. You can’t do it.’ … And that was wrong. That was completely wrong.” Acquired for $3.6BWe’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation
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00:0001:16You can now run @supermemory locally. Introducing the supermemory local - Fully self-contained. Comes with our graph engine, embedding model, etc. - Run on any machine, with your @openclaw, hermes, claude, etc. - SDKs to add memory to your agent, or build your company brain. - ODF repostedThis is Dhravya's master plan.
00:0001:16You can now run @supermemory locally. Introducing the supermemory local - Fully self-contained. Comes with our graph engine, embedding model, etc. - Run on any machine, with your @openclaw, hermes, claude, etc. - SDKs to add memory to your agent, or build your company brain.
