Jean-Denis Greze 💡

@jgreze

Co-Founder and CEO at town.com (@TownAI). Ex-CTO @Plaid. Investor at @ASDFVentures. Everything is satire.

San Francisco

town.com

Joined January 2011

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7,908 Followers

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Jean-Denis Greze 💡
@jgreze
Oct 19
The biggest bottleneck at work is waiting on each other. Today Town is announcing its $108M Series B, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, to fix it with multiplayer AI assistants for work. Most AI assistants are built for one person. Work doesn't happen alone. I
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Jean-Denis Greze 💡
@jgreze
4h
I don't know, most engineers I know are super happy. A product engineer with good product sense can now build insane full-stack features that previously required a much bigger team. A backend engineer with good architecture chops can build reusable and scalable abstractions
Thariq
@trq212
Oct 28
very weird thing happening rn technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better
Jean-Denis Greze 💡
@jgreze
15h
Going to be doing some talking with people much smarter and successful next week! Join in!
Patrick Sullivan
@patricksullivan
22h
This Hello, World! speaker took Plaid’s engineering team from 20 to 350 people. What he’s building next will change the lives of millions of professionals. Jean-Denis Greze founded @TownAI, an assistant that learns how you work across email, calendar and Slack and then handles
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Jean-Denis Greze 💡
@jgreze
Oct 30
I almost didn't get hired at Dropbox. I did well in some parts of the interview, not so well in others, and a couple of people had to go to bat for me. Then I had to do a take home. And then, I think I just wore them down and they hired me. That job ended up changing my career.
Felix Rieseberg
@felixrieseberg
Oct 27
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month. I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-t…
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Jean-Denis Greze 💡
@jgreze
Oct 30
It's pretty cool seeing these two little AI assistants talking to each other and scheduling a meeting over email. This was from last week. I've been using our scheduling feature for almost everything lately. I write like five words, add my Townie to the email thread, and go do
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