Jared Friedman

@snowmaker

founder, techno-optimist, college dropout, partner at @ycombinator.

San Francisco

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Jared Friedman
@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
@snowmaker
Sep 1
When I met @gpusteve and @gpuemi 18 months ago, they were undergrads at UChicago who weren't planning to start a company. Today they're announcing their $40M Series A. This is how they got there.
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
Sep 1
Wafer (@wafer_ai) is building a fast AI inference cloud that uses agents to optimize GPUs and run open-source models at industry-leading speeds. The result is the low cost of open source with the latency of a much smaller model. Four months after launching the cloud, they went
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Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
Aug 26
Agentmuxer - it's like OpenRouter, but for tools.
dylan
@dylanpkel
Aug 25
Excited to launch Agentmuxer, the OpenRouter for Agent Capabilities. Agentmuxer gives your agent paid capabilities on demand: web search, scraping, extraction, enrichment, and more. It asks for what it needs, we route to the best provider based on benchmarks and outcome feedback
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Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
Aug 25
If you don't have a frontier AI agent that lives in your slack and responds like a coworker, you should get one, it's incredibly useful. Opentag lets you put an agent in your Slack and stay flexible on what model powers it.
Tony Kam
@kamikariat
Aug 25
You might've heard of @OpenAI, @OpenRouter, @opencode We're excited to launch @TryOpenTag : the model-agnostic Claude Tag. If you've seen Claude Tag, you know the interface. Tag an AI in Slack, hand it a task, get the result in the thread. We think that's the right interface.
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Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
Aug 25
100 Corgi Cafes this year, wow.
TO
@TO
Aug 24
The goal is audacious: open 100 Corgi Cafes this year around the world. This is the challenge of a lifetime. It hasn’t been easy...and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I’m all in. Every city. Every cafe. Whatever it takes. We’re just getting started. 🐶🧡
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