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Shane Mac: Convos lets users launch OpenClaw and Hermes agents on mobile
“Convos is an app that allows you to launch OpenClaw and Hermes agents on your phone.”
Mac: Convos provisions email, phone number, and browsing for agents
“It goes and builds everything in the background. So it's provisioning an email address for this, a phone number, web browsing capabilities, everything.”
Shane Mac: Convos is backed by a16z, USV, and Fred Wilson
“Like Andreessen Horowitz, USV, Fred Wilson is on our board and a lot of other, like, really, you know, awesome investors.”
Zapier SDK allows AI agents to make arbitrary API requests
“What the SDK can do, especially when you're using an agent harness, is it can run arbitrary API requests. So whereas the MCP has all the Zapier trigger and action library predefined out of the box, the SDK can say, hey, I have access to Slack's API docs. I can…”
Foster: Zapier integrates with 8,000 different tools
“And then you can have logic that encompasses any of the 8000 different tools we work with.”
Foster: Zapier raised a $1.2M seed round in 2012
“We did a seed round that was 1.2 million in 2012.”
Smith: Chat prompts average 25 words versus 3 to 6 for search
“The average, I think the stat roughly was average of 25 words per prompt and average of three to six for search, something along those lines. So chat is significantly more specific.”
Lieberman: EOS implementers charge up to $15,000 a day for off-sites
“A lot of people hire actual implementers who either run your off-sites, help you with EOS implementation, and they charge a shit ton of money. Like, you know, it could be like 15,000 dollars a day for being at your off-site or with implementation.”
Dan Shipper: GPT-4 and Claude Opus beat human experts in blindly judged benchmarks
“They found that GPT-V is better than experts, like blindly judged better than experts at completing these tasks like 40% of the time, and I think Claude Opus is at 40, at 49%”
Dan Shipper: OpenAI awarded Every a plaque for processing 10 billion tokens
“Like yesterday I was at Dev Day, OpenAI Dev Day, and I got this like cool plaque that was like, you've processed ten billion tokens through, through OpenAI, which is, it was so cool.”
Tan: OpenAI Was Spun Out of YC Research by Sam Altman
“OpenAI itself was a spin-out from YC research by, ah, Sam Altman.”
Tan: Cruise co-founder Daniel Kan is in current Y Combinator batch
“Daniel Kahn, for instance, who created, co, co-founder of Cruise Automation, he's in the batch, and I'm pretty excited about it”
Keboola reached $4M in profitable revenue before raising its seed round
“So we raised a seed round in June, and by then we had a company, we had if I'm correct, something three, 3.54 million dollars you know, like until then we were running the company to be profitable because like, you know, like we were bootstrapping or cashflow …”
DXC runs global sales and marketing data pipelines on Keboola
“DXC, right? Like, Sixteen billion dollars a year company, you know, the original IT company, and they use us, you know, to run all their sales and marketing data pipelines around the globe for last eight years.”
Herold: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? grew from 14 to 3,100 employees during his tenure
“When I went in to start one 800 got junk or to grow it, they had 14 employees. When I left six and a half years later, we had 3100 employees system wide.”
Herold: Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein does not manage finance or engineering
“And I interviewed another COO recently, Harley Finkelstein from Shopify and Harley doesn't run finance at all. He doesn't run engineering. That's under Tobias, but Harley's very sales and marketing and culture and operations and biz dev.”
Yang: Facebook Messenger bans promotional messages outside 24-hour window
“After 24 hours you can only send content that people subscribe to, And that cannot be, like, promotional or ads”
Yang: Facebook has 65M business Pages adaptable into bots
“It's 1.2 billion people every month using the messenger platform. They have over sixty five million businesses using pages and each page is a potential is a one click away from becoming a bot.”
Yang: Intercom has 17,000 customers while ManyChat has 20,000 connected bots
“Inter, Intercom has, like, 17,000 customers, and we already have over 20,000 bots connected to the platform.”
Houston: Dropbox reached 200 million published users by late 2013
“Last number we published was two hundred million.”
Allis: iContact Reached $47M+ Annual Revenue and 70k Customers
“We started the business in 2003, and you're right, we did everything we could to keep expenses low, sleeping on futons, eating lots of rum and noodles as we built up eye contact over the years to 70,000 customers, a little over forty seven million in annual re…”
Allis: iContact raised a total of $53M over five years
“Not only provided, you know, 500,005, which you raised a total of fifty three million dollars over the last five years at eye contact not only provided money, but actually provided, you know, strategic advice”
Huffman: Reddit reached nine million unique visitors last month
“I can only speak for Reddit's numbers, and that, they got nine million uniques last month.”
Gebbia: Airbnb originally required all listings to attach to specific conferences
“At the time, we were just housing for conferences. You had to list a room to an event. When the event was over, the listing went away.”
Yang: Facebook drove high F8 engagement using Messenger parametric codes for swag
“What Facebook did is they put up this parametric code that said, like, Hey, if you want free swag, just scan this code, and you're gonna we're gonna send you a message of what you've got, and it can be a t-shirt, socks, or something else, and everyone was like…”
Allis grew iContact to $1M in sales shortly after turning 21
“I remember we chatted last time about a goal I set when I was 16 to build a company to a million dollars in sales by the time I turned 21. And I told you I missed that goal by 18 days. But you know what? I was 21 years old in 18 days, and eye contact got to on…”
Chesky: First Airbnb SXSW release had no online payments
“That, for that vision, Did not have online payments like it has now. It was merely to provide housing for conferences, and that was our, kind of, the first entry into the market.”