today, we’re officially launching @trybountyai, backed by a16z @speedrun. post the outcome. set the reward. let AI agents compete to deliver. pay only for results. already: $30K+ GMV, 5K+ tasks, 200+ active agents. post your first bounty: 🔗

In our 19 minute talk with @nicckopp, CEO & Founder of @RilletHQ, he discusses why PMF is everything, how to build the right team, and what investors look for in founders. Enjoy! Timestamps: 00:00 - Why build an ERP when others failed? 03:28 - How did Nicolas know he had product market fit? 05:15 - Building an ERP: Wedge vs. Platform 08:23 - Hiring and building the right team 12:13 - The "Secret Weapon" Hires 13:41 - What investors look for in founders

Today we’re launching Keythorn. AI isn’t just thinking anymore. It’s moving money, talking to customers, and taking action. Every new agent brings new risk. The future runs on AI. We’re building the insurance for it. Meet @TryKeythorn ↓

Introducing @getclusterai: GTM infrastructure for your agents. We're helping the top 1% of AI-native teams turn Claude & Codex into demo-booking machines. Multi-channel outreach, signals, and enrichments in one platform for you and your agents. We've spent the last month onboarding startups and founders from @speedrun , @ycombinator, and more, to get them dozens of conversations with high intent leads. Hmu if you want access.

Claude & Codex can now book you demos with your next 10 customers. Introducing Cluster: GTM infrastructure for your agents. Our agent is sending a free cupcake to 50 people from the comments. Comment below to enter!

We jumped out of a plane to launch Zorbe. Because the future needs you to own yourselves. Zorbe builds specialized AI models that companies own, and keeps them state of the art over time. We're the first company with multimodal operations, making models smaller, cheaper, faster and smarter across language, speech, vision, image and video. We've worked with companies from Seed to Series D, and we're the only company to have delivered a distilled video model running in production for a customer. Own Your Models. Own Your Moat.

STUDENTS + NEW GRADS: We want to invest up to $250K in you! Applications are officially OPEN for speedrun Alpha Cohort 2. After our inaugural cohort this summer, we're excited to bring the fellowship back with two tracks: Founder: Get up to $250K to start your company, plus $1M+ in credits from AI, cloud, and devtool partners and more Talent: Get fast-tracked toward engineering opportunities at breakout startups Both: In-person fellowship in SF with a kickoff retreat, weekly office hours with the speedrun team, coworking at the speedrun office, intimate fireside chats, and one-on-one support We’re looking to take bets on technical students, recent grads, and dropouts who are serious about building. You can be pre-idea, pre-team, or already underway. At this stage, what matters most is that you’ve shown you can ship and are deeply committed to this path. More than 11,000 people applied to our first cohort, and we ultimately selected 11 teams. We’re excited to meet the next group! Apply now: Nominate or tag anyone you think we should consider👇

I co-lead @speedrun alpha w/ @KatiaAmeri - we're opening apps for A002 today. > We invest up to $250k > We focus on dropouts / recent grads > Our thesis: "invest in amazing people" Application link is in the comments. Tag the folks we should be talking to.

BREAKING NEWS: SF and LA Tech Week calendars are LIVE! You can now register for events: 2,300+ event submissions across San Francisco and Los Angeles 📍SF: October 5-11 📍LA: October 12-18 People always ask about the data, so a few stats: -SF once again takes the crown for “biggest tech week ever” with 1,500+ events -1 in 7 SF events is about agentic AI: 213 events in SF and 53 in LA are explicitly about agents (in the title or description). In 2024 there were only about a dozen! -There are 124 hackathons across the two weeks, and the variety is huge: everything from hardware to defense, media/creative, fintech, civic/social good, etc. Everyone is a builder now. - LA, the OG Tech Week (now in its fifth year!), has seriously doubled down on deep tech with 100+ events and lots of El Segundo activity. Last year, Tech Week saw attendees from over 100 countries. It’s going to be a party. See you there! 🥳

I’m 18 And Zorbe is now backed by @speedrun Custom models for repetitive workloads across all modalities Text. Video. Image. Vision. Speech. Cheaper, faster, smarter, yours @yash_iyer21 and I are grateful to @far33d and @Tocelot for their confidence in us! Let's talk!

"There is a finite number of good ideas." One of them is sharing our 25 minute talk with @thejessezhang, CEO & Co-founder of @DecagonAI. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 - First Startup & Lessons From Loki 1:51 - How Do You Find Product-Market Fit? 2:54 - How Do You Find the Right Problem to Solve? 5:10 - Choosing the Right Co-Founder 5:57 - Competing in a Crowded Market 7:27 - Why Zheng Chose Against Forward Deployed Services 9:16 - When Should You Say No to a Deal? 10:07 - How To Close Your First 10 Customers 11:27 - Should Startups Target SMEs or Enterprise? 12:18 - How Should Startups Price Their First Customers? 14:37 - Building a Defensible AI Company 18:32 - How Should a Startup CEO Spend Their Time? 20:02 - What Should You Look for When Hiring? 22:17 - What Do You Look for as an Angel Investor? 22:49 - What Would You Build Today if Not for Decagon?

Today, we’re introducing Tenera: behavioral simulations for product teams. Teams are shipping faster than ever, but product decision making hasn’t caught up. For every big bet, product leaders face the same binary choice: ship on instinct, or wait weeks for validation. Tenera predicts how users will react to software before it ships. We train a dedicated model per persona, grounded in customer evidence and behavioral data, so predictions reflect how your specific users behave, not a generic average. It helps teams prioritize, pressure test, and validate high-stakes product decisions - faster and at scale. The winners won’t be the teams that build the most. They’ll be the teams that know what to build first. Book a demo ↓

Was an honor to host @sama for an open Q&A with our SR007 founders. Grateful to the @OpenAI team for their partnership and continued support of our founders. Excited for all that's ahead 🫡