Pavel Asparouhov

After 19 months of building quietly, today Silna—the company I cofounded w @Jeffrey_Morelli and @sagarjajoo—is emerging with $27M in funding from Accel+Bain Capital Our platform is already enabling tens of thousands of patients to access critical care Here's how we got here ⬇️

Founding engineers after you close the seed

Enforcing 9/9/6 top down is a cop out for actually inspiring people People will work hard if they believe the work is important and they'll be rewarded for working hard

When you allow narratives to diverge too far from reality, reality ends up smacking you in the face one way or another True of political philosophies, companies, individuals, etc Beware getting smacked in the face!

Sonnet 4 + claude code is the first time I can comfortably put away the IDE Dev flow looks like this + github pr review Infra for parallelization of agents is a critical part of dev environment now!

Agnostic of psychosis there's certainly latent truths sitting in the model weights that go beyond human comprehension I'd believe that there's patterns in the distribution set that would make the average person go insane if understood

Optimal focus is becoming barbell mode. You should either be tabbing through 4 Claude Code agents and a twitter tab OR you should be deeply focused, no music, locked the TF in The middle zone is cooked

Everyone else be double checking their moves with Claude so they be moving predictable asf Never been easier to zig while other zags, these mfs all got the zag machine in their pockets

This 100% The Windsurf founders & Google thought they could pull a fast one & that the broader community/Windsurf employees are somehow retarded enough to not catch on that their "leave the shell co w/ cash" plan Was obviously totally morally bankrupt, everyone will remember!!

I mean if you leave someone for dead but someone else calls in a helicopter that doesn't real change your moral positioning in the situation

I hope these guys smoke google at AI coding Imagine the chip on your shoulder after this if you're a windsurf employee

In a world of fake acquisitions by the Mag 7 that break the fundamental social contract of the Valley & are lame as fuck Cognition is doing the RIGHT & SMART thing by taking over Windsurf, treating the employees right AND now you have the best AI-coding team all in one place!!

Given recent news it's important to clarify: CEOs control what happens to their teams during an acquisition. Any bad outcome for the team is simply the CEO not negotiating harder for the team. When selling my company, I was stunned at how much power I had as CEO to create…

No fucking excuses for this No Lina Khan bullshit, Alexander Wang and investors figured out a way to structure a deal that took care of the Scale employees @_mohansolo No matter what happens the face you have to look in the mirror every night is your own, money doesn't change…

Btw if you sit on the board or are a member of management, you actually have a legal fudiciary responsibility to all classes of shares, employee or not So keep that in mind when negotiating these exits, you can be held personally liable!

Pay attention to which VCs sign off on deals that fuck common stock as you're thinking about what company to join!

Excited to announce that we've raised a $187m Series C!! Plenty of fuel to continue accomplishing our mission To expand the economic bounds of humankind You'll know we've gotten there when you look up at the night sky & see Varda laboratories in orbit the size of cities

Today we’re announcing two pieces of news: 1) We raised $187 million Series C led by @NatCapCentral and @ShrugCap. 2) We’re expanding into a new lab space to begin work on biologics. Soon, space reentry will be ordinary and drugs made in orbit will be part of everyday care.

Euro homies be like “I dm’d you on PayPal did u see it” and it’s like no bro I did not see it