Yuri Sagalov
@yuris
Dad, husband, brother, son, friend, founder, investor (@Supabase, @WeAreLegora, @DecagonAI,+++).
MD @GeneralCatalyst. Previously @WayfinderVC @YCombinator.
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calm luh @generalcatalyst hackathon win from waterloo tech week
w/ @michael_mzl @ZacVinizki @AidanYee2
shoutout @sofiiabodnar @IKorovinsky @AlexaLiautaud @yuris for organizing ‼️
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The only way to ensure you get IMAX tickets to The Odyssey is to book out the whole theater
Growth this year at @supabase has been wild. Each month I wonder if going to peak, and yet the charts keep climbing
What feels unprecedented is that all charts are trending up - even as sign ups grow, so does activation and conversion
LLMs have changed the game - not only are there more builders than ever, they are able to build easier and get to a functioning app faster.
It’s never been a better time to build
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Today, we’re releasing Kalypta, the first app to block AI notetakers in your meetings.
Granola? Wisprflow? Cluely? No more.
With Kalypta, you become inaudible to AI.
Your call continues normally.
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SF startups are keeping banner pilots in high demand
We're hosting our annual conference, Decagon Dialogues, in SF on 10/1!
@ScottWu46 from Cognition is joining us for a keynote.
We'll have folks from American Airlines, Verizon, Paypal, Chipotle, etc discussing how they're deploying agents at scale.
Come by:
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Can't wait for Supabase Select. October 2nd in San Francisco. Register at
Steve Wozniak will be joining me on the main stage on October 2nd
@Supabase Select is a conference for builders, so we invited one of the GOATs
get your ticket here:
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This remains undefeated
Few things are as predictive that a round is happening as getting hit up by brokers looking to buy secondary shares
Thanks to @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman and his team for visiting our Moses Lake Test Site recently! Great to show off hot fires of both our Andromeda and Zenith engines as they complete their qualification campaigns.
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Salesforce feels like the final boss of enterprise sales.
Usually, you sign up for Salesforce.
Rarely, Salesforce signs up for you.
We're welcoming Salesforce to Legora.
Salesforce has adopted Legora across its Legal and Corporate Affairs organization, in North America, EMEA, and APAC, complementing its use of Agentforce and Slack. This is what an AI-native legal function looks like in practice: a connected stack built for real legal work, at scale.
“AI is reshaping how legal teams operate, and with Slack and Agentforce we're building an AI-native, trust-first legal function that empowers our team to work more efficiently and focus their time where it can have the greatest impact. Adding Legora to our transformation portfolio gives our team additional legal tools to support research, drafting, and other workflows, so they can spend more time on the work that requires their expertise and judgment,” said Erica Swainson, VP, Legal Innovation & Strategic Initiatives, Salesforce.
With Legora, Salesforce's legal team will stay ahead of an evolving regulatory landscape, apply consistent negotiating positions at scale, and handle more research and drafting directly, with lawyers staying in control where judgment is required. That's the Legora aOS: a single connected system of AI tools that plans, executes, reviews, and delivers legal work end to end.
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I first came to San Francisco when I was 15, with my dad. He is a programmer. To a teenager from a small island outside of Stockholm, this was the place where the future was being built.
We walked into Salesforce East and stood there watching the enormous digital display of moving water. Outside, Salesforce Tower was starting to rise.
I remember looking up and thinking it would be pretty sweet to have a tower someday. We are not there yet.
What I could not have known is that I would be back years later, having dinner with @Benioff and welcoming @salesforce as a @WeAreLegora customer.
Salesforce's Legal and Corporate Affairs organization will now use Legora across North America, EMEA and APAC. Their lawyers keep the judgment calls. We take care of the work around them. We have run on Slack since day one and became Salesforce customers when our sales team outgrew its first CRM, so it is good to have it run in the other direction too.
Welcome to Legora, Salesforce.
Dad, this one feels special.
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Supabase Select is a conference for builders, so we invited one of the first ones. 🪄
@stevewoz joins @kiwicopple on the Main Stage, October 2 in San Francisco.
See you there:
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Making Startups Powerful:
<put on sunglasses>
<loud voice> your glasses require a security update
😳
This is the most grandparent friendly feature Apple has ever launched.
May be worth buying this phone for this feature alone.
This is one of my favorite features of the iPhone Duo.
When you’re on FaceTime, you can utilize both screens and cameras. If you’re pointing the camera at someone in front of you, the person on the other side of the phone can talk to whoever you’re on the call with too.
You don’t need to flip the phone like we do now. Very impressive software/hardware integration.
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shout out to the Gemini team - you can can now connect directly to @supabase in Gemini Enterprise:
Really great to see Apple release the Reference Image tech as quickly as they did.
We’re rapidly approaching the point where it’s impossible to distinguish AI generated photos/videos from real ones and I think this will become a necessary standard across photos and videos imminently.
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The world needs far more software than it can build. Cognition exists to change that.
We’ve just raised over $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir.
Since our round in May, run-rate revenue has grown from $492 M to almost $900 M.
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Founders often think that raising more money gives them more optionally, but counterintuitively in practice the inverse is often true.
The reason is that money has a way of getting spent no matter how much you raise, and spending more is often uncorrelated with achieving your next milestone.
So the only thing that happens is that 18 months in you have a similar amount of progress to show regardless of how much you’ve raised, but if you raised a lot you’ve taken some paths off the table (bridge rounds, smaller Series As, etc).
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