Jared Friedman

@snowmaker

founder, techno-optimist, college dropout, partner at @ycombinator.

San Francisco

linkedin.com/in/jaredfriedm…

Joined Apr 2007

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If you don't have a frontier AI agent that lives in your slack and responds like a coworker, you should get one, it's incredibly useful. Opentag lets you put an agent in your Slack and stay flexible on what model powers it.

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YC built software that all our founders have used to send SAFEs for the last few years. Today, we're opening it up to everyone and giving it away for free.

Y Combinator@ycombinatorAug 19

In 2013, @cjoneslevy created the SAFE at YC. It's since been used by YC founders to raise $15B+ and has become the standard way startups raise money. So we're launching Send a SAFE: a free tool to generate, sign, & send one in ~2 minutes, built to be used by founders (and their AI agents).

Take a minute to watch this video; it's a cool one. This is not some AI generated video; this is the actual robot the Grip founders built, sorting real trash, at 1x speed.

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@snowmaker15d

The size of YC's codebase, over the last 14 years.

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📝 Dipole Labs: AI-controlled optical circuit switching for AI clusters Today @dipole_labs is launching out of stealth. They build high-sp...

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This is driven by a real technical breakthrough in how agents can browse the web. https://twitter.com/gregpr07/status/2085763062771150888

@snowmaker22d

Have you noticed that Claude Code has a Ballmer Peak?

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Starcloud was founded on January 1st. On January 2nd, they booked a SpaceX launch, not knowing what they'd put on the rocket. Still can't...

@snowmaker33d

The photos you see of Startup School are mostly the big talks. But we got feedback last year that people wanted more small-group interactio...

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Doing a little Claude Coding while watching @bcherny at Startup School. It's such a treat to get meet the creator of a product you use ever...

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I'm building a web app that integrates with a number of dev tools via APIs, and the experience of working with dev tools companies in the Cl...

@snowmaker60d

Claude was RL'd on coding sessions with humans. But the more I use Claude Code, the more I realize I'm being RL'd on Claude Code - learning...

@snowmaker62d

Improving a product with a chat interface is so much easier than a website. With a website, you're stuck watching screen recordings and gue...

@snowmaker64d

A funny thing is that LLMs are not particularly good building agentic systems. For the moment, you need human expertise to do it well.

@snowmaker68d

When you get your army of AI agents working right, you really do feel like Mickey in the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

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A common problem we hear from founders trying to "talk to their users" is that their users don't respond. Well, they're more likely to resp...

@snowmaker72d

An amazingly large percentage of all company management is funnel optimization.

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If you want to find a truly impactful idea, a good place to look is in the trash bin of history. Most of the ideas that have most broken ou...

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We've always told startups to launch early, but I realized there's a powerful new reason to. Before you launch, the speed you can build is n...

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At YC we're now running on the latest versions of rails and react for the first time since we started the codebase. Now that AI made librar...

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