Sara Du
@saradu
founder @andocorporation ⊹ the messaging platform for agent-pilled teams
harvard dropout, thiel fellow
952 Following 49.5K Followers
the greatest headwind for plg companies is user ADHD
ando on iphone duo 📱🤳💥
beautifully written. slack is still crushing it for salesforce, but it could’ve been so much more if it’d stayed independent
a huge part of it is the GTM mismatch. there’s a reason so many messaging platforms get built by teams with gaming dna. messaging is fundamentally a bottoms-up, multiplayer product that doesnt do well w a top down sales motion
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Latest (and probably penultimate) Building Slack post is up:
What it's like being eaten by the whale
the best heuristic for founder-market fit or (team-market fit for that matter) is you feel *addicted* to working
where’s the best growth engineering talent these days?
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 😆
most companies are building agent teams the same way they build human ones (bloated)
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
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the best part abt building a work msging platform is seeing which teams are grinding together on friday nights, so bullish on them
i raised my first 3 rounds of capital ($20M+) before he graduated high school
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
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i wish grokbot webhook wakeups could get to < 60s
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
my wishlist for codex cloud:
- webhook triggers
- persistent machine
- detach sessions from repos
great to see the grokbot community pick ando over slack
born to slack, forced to slackforce 😪
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
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always easier said than done
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?
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