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Adam Smith

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Adam Smith

@asmith

Founded Xobni and Kite, MIT, YC 2006, VP Eng Affirm; adam.net | linkedin.com/in/adamsmith314 | opsgo.cc/anonymous-feed…

Joined April 2007

Adam Smith
@asmith
Jul 18, 2025
Watch @typesfast pitch Flexport to Paul Graham and Sam Altman for the first time at Startup School 2013:
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Adam Smith
@asmith
Dec 25, 2020
The best piece of advice for early stage startup recruiting I can fit into a tweet: Don’t interview candidates who are also interviewing at FB, Google, etc. These folks always end up joining BigCo. The precision on this heuristic is unreal: 100% out of n ≈ 10 offers we’ve made.
Adam Smith
@asmith
Dec 23, 2023
Replying to @eshear
I just published my GPT-4 prompts for turning an audio transcript into well-structured text here: gist.github.com/adamsmith/2a22… I use this alongside my integration with Apple Voice Memos that I also open sourced here: gist.github.com/adamsmith/80ce…
voice-memo transcript → organized markdown text, using LLMs
From gist.github.com
Adam Smith
@asmith
Sep 29, 2023
Paul cooking dinner for us every week during YC was such a great, non-obvious design choice on many levels. During YC we worked as hard as we could, which was stressful and tiring. The care and warmth of each dinner was understated, empathetic, and nourishing.
Paul Graham
@paulg
Sep 29, 2023
Just made chili for 13. Like cooking an early YC dinner.
Adam Smith
@asmith
Jan 17, 2021
Who is doing the most to fix SF? In order: 1st place: Those putting in work, like @DavidSacks & @cyantist 2nd place: Those leaving SF and being vocal about it, like @rabois & @JTLonsdale because ultimately competition is needed to motivate Last place: Everyone else in SF
Adam Smith
@asmith
May 7, 2017
I just published “Entrepreneurial Careers: Beyond the Fairy Tale Narrative” medium.com/p/entrepreneur…
Adam Smith
@asmith
Apr 14, 2016
What I've been working on for the past two years: Kite, your programming copilot! @kitehq kite.com Long, exciting road ahead!
Adam Smith
@asmith
Mar 28, 2017
Kite, smart copilot for programmers, launches publicly today!! Check it out: kite.com the future of programming, we think!
Adam Smith
@asmith
Mar 22, 2016
An excerpt from Andy Grove's autobiography. He is in post-war Hungry and applying to immigrate to the US.
Adam Smith
@asmith
Jan 28, 2019
Kite launches Line-of-Code Completions, goes cloudless, and secures $17 million in funding. Excited! kite.com/blog/launching… #kite #python
Adam Smith
@asmith
Nov 21, 2012
Steve Jobs: "Innovation has nothing to do with R&D dollars. [..] It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it."
Adam Smith
@asmith
Feb 28, 2014
Beginner entrepreneur mistake: stubbornly sticking to something because you've sold others on that thing. Commitment consistency is deadly!
Adam Smith
@asmith
Mar 14, 2020
I’m optimistic. Yes, we were probably slow off the line. Yes, our government has issues. But our country has deep capacity, a great work ethic, and innovative people and companies. Let’s do it!
Adam Smith
@asmith
Sep 29, 2016
SpaceX in 2002. Everything big starts small.