Nicolas Dessaigne
@dessaigne
Co-founder of @algolia - Group partner at @ycombinator
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One of the highlights of my trip to France was visiting YC alums.
Among them is @hylight_aero, a YC S23 alum building airships to inspect infrastructure at scale: power lines, pipelines, railways, etc. They are replacing risky helicopter inspections, suppressing their high carbon emissions and delivering better data.
Seeing them at work was really cool. They design, build, and operate the HyLighters themselves.
And they’re already inspecting infrastructure across France. Thanks for having me, @MartinBocken, Josef Rokusek, and @ThomasLprte. Keep going!
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I met a team this week selling "cut your AI spend." I encouraged them to flip it. Buyers don't get promoted for spending less, they get promoted for shipping more. Frame the same product as "do 3x more with what you already pay," and you go from a line-item nobody defends to a budget nobody questions. Selling savings caps your ceiling at the customer's current spend. Selling output has no ceiling.
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I was 37 when I did YC and it transformed my company
A founder asked me how to build an AI-services business without it turning into a consultancy. My answer: the whole game is in how you charge.
I’ve worked with Diana a lot over the past few years as a YC partner, especially around devtools. She has incredible founder taste, deep technical expertise, and real care for the people she works with. Couldn’t be more excited about this. Congrats @sdianahu!
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