this week we onboarded a wholesale chemicals company, a massive farm, a film studio, and one of the largest home services booking platforms
collecting industries like pokémon 😆
tfw your teammate goes to lisbon to run a marathon over the wknd…
if i only saw his github commits i would’ve never known 😂 congrats beast @strangechances
Slack was built before AI and you can tell.
This solo founder raised $20M to build the workspace for humans and agents.
Solo Founders Podcast ep 30 is live with @saradu of @andocorporation.
01:19 Two companies, two motivations
05:29 A problem worth ten years
08:43 Why now, and why so few competitors
19:36 Agents are coworkers, not tools
33:15 The locked office building
37:07 An agent's first 90 days
42:53 Trust runs backwards with agents
54:05 Georgia to SF at 17
1:09:30 The bear and bull case for going solo
He’s dating her btw
It’s patronage networks all the way down. Every single piece of content you see on this website is a psyop designed to manufacture a fake consensus reality
Never trust VCs, never trust venture-backed founders. They have no incentive to speak the truth
we’re excited to share that we’ve raised $20M (from Accel, Index, & Emergence) to build the 'ai-native Slack' you've all been craving
TLDR; ando is a team messaging platform built fresh, from the ground, up for a world where agents act as real collaborators alongside us.
we have teams using us across 15 countries, and spanning industries like software, financial services, real estate, & more
request access if any of this resonates 💌
back in the day you had to go thru stack overflow hazing to become an engineer...now that this is no longer the case, we need to find new ways to humble our youth
just read Derek Parfit's paper on personal identity. TLDR "human identity is less stable than we imagine + memory is partly reconstructed each time we revisit it" -
feels v relevant to designing good products around agents / subagent forking
openai made their own chips but not their own internal messaging app, they use slack
even though building a slack clone would basically be free for them?
so actually software engineers are safe because there's harder problems than building software and no one wants to maintain it?