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Koomen: Every profession will have its Cursor or Windsurf moment
“It's basically every profession I think will have its cursor moment or its windsurf moment.”
Koomen: Mainstream users will adopt AI prompting faster than personal computing
“And I think the same thing is going to happen with prompting. So I think this is actually going to happen a lot faster with prompting, because writing a prompt is a lot more accessible than, you know, operating your file system manager on, on your computer. Yo…”
Koomen: Writing prompts will become part of daily workflow for many
“Some of the work that we've done at YC, building agents to automate some of the repetitive work that we and our teammates do on a regular basis, actually suggests to me that writing prompts is going to be part of the day-to-day flow for a lot of people.”
Koomen: Commercial software will soon ship with self-extending AI capabilities
“I suspect that a lot of commercial software will come with this capability out of the box in the future.”
Koomen: AI models can handle complex, multi-step scheduling workflows
“These AI models are now capable of doing things like that, where it's actually anticipating all of the things that will need to happen as a result of my daughter waking up with the flu and helping me do those things.”
Non-legal founders built Vessence MVP by embedding inside a law firm
“I worked with a company in the previous batch, the Spring batch, which was just now wrapping up, called Vessence, that are building software for lawyers. And neither of the founders has a legal background, and so the way that they got started before YC was the…”
The founders of Brex entered Y Combinator working on a VR startup
“There were the Brex founders, who I think were working on, like, a VR startup at the time.”
Koeman: Sales is top concern for most YC batch founders
“Sales is the number one concern during the batch for most of the founders that I work with at YC.”
Koomen: Stripe Charged More Than Competitors in Its Early Days
“The Collison brothers famously charged more for Stripe in the beginning than their competition did. The fact that they were able to sell their product anyway was compelling evidence that they were onto something.”
Koeman: Optimizely Closed Six-Figure Deals Where Customers Never Ran Tests
“In fact, we closed six-figure deals with customers that were excited about our product, and then we discovered a year later when it was time for them to renew that they hadn't run a single A-B test with Optimizely.”
Koomen: Optimizely started as manual A/B testing consulting before building software
“We actually had this example at Optimizely where we were building software to help companies run A-B tests. But at the earliest stages, we got companies to pay us just to go in and manually build A-B tests. For them. Right. And so we're making money. The first…”