Swarm
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OpenAI launches Agents SDK with built-in dashboard tracing
“Actually, the last thing we're launching is the agent's SDK. We launched this thing called swarm last year, where You know, it was an experimental SDK for people to do multi-agent orchestration and stuff like that. It was supposed to be like educational, exper…”
Denehy: Swarm's retail analytics model failed due to a $50 monthly cap
“Even if we solved it perfectly, our customer would never pay us more than 50 dollars a month per store. So, you know, I think in the end, like the business model was kind of a waste of time.”
Denehy: Swarm sold its lousy $100 Wi-Fi sensor MVP to 100 customers
“And then we were able to, you know, we were able to sell that product to probably, I think, our first 50 or a hundred customers. It was a lousy product, but it was good enough for the early adopters to see what we were trying to do and prove that there was a b…”
Denehy: Swarm avoided total layoffs with a $300K wire before a wedding
“Our last two companies were at times days away from running out of money, and I think in the most extreme case at Swarm, Rudd's wedding was on a Saturday, and we were gonna have to lay everybody off on Monday, and so two days before the wedding, we got a wire …”