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Wade Foster: Zapier is rolling out AI coding tools to non-engineers
“This week now we are rolling out company-wide. We're getting everybody in every function, not just engineering. So like marketing, sales, accounting, HR, all set up on either cursor, cloud code, or codex. One of the three.”
Cera: Pulsia AI agents autonomously prioritize and build requested platform features
“There's an agent that's going to report that feature in, like, a sort of, like, a ticketing system, and there's another agent that's a Pulsia platform agent that, like, looks at all the features asked by, like, the thousands of users, And prioritizes features …”
Hazarkhani says manual typing in an IDE is an outdated practice
“No one on our team actually types letters into an IDE. If I walk through a WeWork and I see someone typing letters in an IDE, they're working in like, 1990, right?”
Patel: All our developers use Cursor; non-adopters were let go
“Everyone on our, in our corporation uses cursor. The people who refuse to use cursor and didn't adapt are no longer there.”
Shim: Read.ai tracks head orientation for engagement without facial recognition
“We look at head orientation, so we don't look at your face, we don't do any facial recognition, but we go and we say, if you're looking at the camera straight ahead, and you're talking, your camera's there, and then if you look over this way, and you go to a f…”
Harbinger asks Apple which guests secure iTunes homepage placement
“I call Apple and I go, hey, who would you like to see me interview? I've got these ideas and who can you, who would you put on the front page of iTunes? And they give me a list out of that list. And then I call those people's PR or have my, I have my people ca…”
Cera: Polsia is intentionally named 'AI SLOP' spelled backwards
“Well, it's a SLOP backwards, and the whole concept, when I explained it to investors, when I was raising the precede, is like, we're aiming at doing the opposite of SLOP. We're trying to, like, create tools that outputs Beauty that output great things that emp…”
Cera: Polsia shut down cross-agent memory after users weaponized shared skills
“So right now, first of all, we killed all memory files. We were like, you know what? Let's clean up memory because it's a good idea, but like it's got weaponized. So we killed the memory.”
Cera: Pulsia autonomously creates Sora video ads and manages Meta campaigns
“In the first iteration of, like, the ads feature that I built about two weeks ago, it's a pretty recent feature the AI is autonomously running ads, so, like, the crazy thing is that as a user, you click on a button called Run Ads, there's a single button, you …”
Elad Gil and Jared Kushner co-founded Brinko, an enterprise AI platform
“Yeah, so our respective firms helped set up this company called Brinko, which is a Company, which basically builds, it has both a common platform that is like data infra and evals and a bunch of other stuff for people to use. And then on top of that, it builds…”
Elad Gil's firm is considering acquiring established companies for AI transformation
“We've considered, and I say we, cause like I have a group of people I work with now considered, should we go and buy a company and then transform it with AI? But I mean, it's scale, right? Is there something really big that you should work with because they al…”
Apfelbaum Built 200 Working evyAI Features Personally Using AI
“I built MVPs. I have about 200 additions to Evie AI that I already built that are working that I created myself using artificial intelligence, and when the refactor's done at the end of this year, in another two weeks my refactor will be done, the developer wi…”
Foster: Zapier uses AI to automatically critique and coach its executive team
“And so for our exec team meetings, we have these recorded. And so we'll take the transcript automatically. We'll send it to a prompt. That is based on the five dysfunctions of a team. So if you haven't read five dysfunctions of a team, it's, it basically descr…”
Tan: YC board abandoned conglomerate model to return to focused accelerator
“When I came back, like, we explicitly decided as a board and as, like, the sort of steering body of what YC was supposed to be, we said, you know what, like, Alphabet is great, but we're gonna go back to being Google.”
Huffman: Reddit allowed all non-spam content without tailoring the platform
“To a large extent, it's anything goes. As long as it's not spam, most content will survive. And so that was one of the big philosophical differences between Reddit and Hacker News is, is we didn't want to remove content or we didn't want to tailor the site to …”
Cera: Polsia is buying GPU infrastructure to run proprietary models
“Doing a ton of work to, like, trying to explore more affordable models, buying my own GPU infrastructure in order to, like, being able to run models, burn my own models that can be much more affordable for what I'm trying to do.”
Cera: Polsia will stop supporting native cold outreach from its platform domain
“And so Polesia.app probably will not do call.reach soon. We're just migrating.”
Wade Foster uses GPT-5 inside Cursor for his coding agent workflows
“I just know that I've got an amazing coding agent in Cursor, inside of Cursor, and in this case, I'm using GPT-Five.”
Eliason Refuses to Write Code or Create Products for His AI Agent
“My philosophy has been like, I'm not going to write any of the code for you. I'm not going to create these products for you. I'm not going to like at the expense of. The business to some extent, like I am going to be as out of the loop as possible because that…”
David: Posties reaches $45,000 in monthly revenue
“We've reached now 45 thousand dollars per month.”
Wade Foster: Software accounts for a single-digit percentage of company spend
“It's minimal. You know, it's like a single digit percentage. It's so small compared to like headcount.”
Wade Foster used Cursor to build a tool from Granola meeting notes
“I got off the call, and I have cursor hooked up to granola, And so the meeting was recorded with Granola, and so I said, hey, Granola, our, go, go fetch that meeting I just had with Ryan, and in it he describes the war council he built. Build that for me. And …”
Wade Foster: Zapier uses a multi-agent AI to check hiring decisions
“I find it to be a really helpful tool at keeping the panel honest, keeping me honest on a decision where I can find myself sort of like feeling one way or the other, and then you talk to it, and it like really grounds the decision, and you're like, then you ha…”
Ben Cera: Pulsia may create a fund to own autonomous companies
“I mean, I told you around the idea of like Pulsia itself having a fund and being able to like you know, create autonomous companies that would be owned by Pulsia.”
Cera: Pulsia takes a 20% revenue split, leaving 80% to customers
“So you always get, so I always take 20%.
and again, for me, it's like a way to like pay the bills and make sure that like I can reinvest, you know, make it a profitable company that can reinvest in making the platform better.
and the customer always gets 80%…”
Gil: Project Alexandria will translate foundational books for 80% of humanity
“So one thing that I might even be working on is taking working with OpenAI and Anthropic and 11 and a few other folks on taking the world's most important books and using machine translation to translate them into languages that represent over 80% of humanity …”
Mohrer: Claude Code generates Wave AI help documentation directly from source code
“I also use intercom for my dot for my, like knowledge base, like the articles about all the features. And my, you know, I used to write them and really slave over them and make them better and use AI to help make them better. But now it's like, hey, cloud code…”
Mohrer: Wave AI is a cash-flow business, not an equity play
“This isn't an equity play. This is to make money now as a business.”
Wave AI generates $7M gross and about $3M in profit
“You know, gross was like seven and then Apple and Google take a bunch of that. So let's say like, you know, like five lands and maybe I keep three or something like that.”
Walls: Rebuilt an early version of YouTube in a couple hours
“I basically rebuilt a small version of YouTube in an hour, a couple hours, the early versions of it.”
Walls: Starter Story stopped sending social media traffic to YouTube
“We don't send people to the YouTube anymore. We send people to here, which I like more, because I'd rather have them on my site, you know, that could potentially be useful for retargeting.”
Apfelbaum: Sells $500 AI Course and $3,000/Year Mastermind Learning Live
“Pay me 500 bucks, and a bunch of people paid 500 bucks, and people are still paying 500 bucks, and I said, as an ongoing thing, if you want to meet me every single month for three hours, because I'm learning AI myself, it's 3000 dollars a year, and a percentag…”
Santos: Dream Stories will not make ABC books due to zero repeatability
“That's why we're not doing ABC books. You know, people ask me to say, well, can I get a book about ABC? I was like, no, not interested in that, right? There's no repeatability to that.”
Hastings: Quanta only accepts clients that fit its automated software
“Our approach was we only work with companies that fit within the automation that we have built.”
Makerpad founder Ben Tossell no longer uses Zapier, preferring to code
“Because I have a very high threshold for pain and I want to code it.”
Tossell: I now use CLI tools instead of ChatGPT web apps
“And actually I now use the CLI tool over using ChatWT or Claude on the web for almost anything.”
Lieberman uses 12-month engineering contracts as Trojan horse for AI consulting
“How do we use that to sign 12 month contracts that is highly retentive, highly recurring, and we use that as the Trojan horse to do transformation work after having that line of business.”
Hazarkhani: Tenex tracks daily margin per employee via output-based pay
“We have the margin down to the day, like we know our margin per employee because we're, we generate, we charge on output and we pay on output and everyone's aligned.”
Shipper: Every raised $2M 'sip seed' from Reid Hoffman, Starting Line
“We raised 600 K in 2020, which is when we started the business. And then we just raised another round From Reed Hoffman and starting line DC. And that was a two million dollar round, but we raised it as what I call a sip seed round. So they have committed up t…”
Shipper: Every probably will not raise a standard VC Series A
“And I think the investors, this, in this round also are aware that we're probably not going to go raise, you know, ten million ten million dollar series A from Sequoia or whatever. I don't even know if ten million, maybe ten million is too small now for a seri…”
Shipper: Every requires an AI-first approach across all roles
“We're all using AI to do everything from coding to writing to editing to design to marketing, all that stuff. And if you're not doing it with AI first, you're kind of weird which I think is the reverse of how things are in pretty much every other company.”
Herold: I told Uber's founder at Burning Man that Uber was stupid
“In fact, I told the founder of Uber camp years ago when we were burning man together, that it was a stupid idea because I just didn't understand Uber.”
Sam Ovens plans to eventually take Consulting.com public
“I think with, you know, a company like mine, I've got some plans for it in terms of, ah, like I do want to float it eventually, and the speculative value of some things is, it means, it can mean a lot. It's not a wise idea to mention every asset on the balance…”
Sam Ovens completely rebuilds his consulting course from scratch twice annually
“It's more like, honestly, it's probably version 17 or 18. Like, I, even when there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, and people tell me this is the best course I've ever done, or this is the best course in the world, I still, just for fun, because I just am …”
Suster: Goal is to back the largest IPO in Los Angeles
“So my very clear goal is I want to have the largest IPO in Los Angeles. I want to back a company in LA that IPOs and has the biggest IPO in LA. My goal with that is not purely financial. My goal is to see an ecosystem form around that company that will cement …”
Huffman: He personally moderated r/atheism to keep Reddit welcoming for new users
“While I agree wholeheartedly with their message, I felt like I was kind of the standard bearer for making Reddit seem welcoming for new users, and so people were like, oh, Spez, he's, I guess he's just some sort of devout Christian who just wants to squash our…”
Godin: Refuses to start any project without total commitment to finish
“I refuse to start something unless I'm prepared to finish it. Now by start, I don't mean brainstorm it. I don't mean prototype it. I mean, after that, there's a day. And on that day, it's, is this good enough to be a book? Is this good enough to be a website? …”