akylai
@akylaiksm
building mode. skipping classes @UofIllinois🧠
Introducing Clado Atlas. There are 8 billion people on Earth. Clado can pinpoint any individual person with a single text prompt. and it's live today at atlas. clado .ai
as a founder you get punched in the face every freaking minute. The only thing that keeps you going is the upside, and a naive optimism that the upside is eventually gonna happen
went to founders inc today and was called old, can they stop accepting 15 year olds
Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinking about RL for most of my waking hours inadvertently taught me an important lesson about how to live my own life. One of the big concepts in RL is that you always want to be “on-policy”: instead of mimicking other people’s…
so my rooftop matcha cafe w/ @AforeVC was a huge success :) the caliber of talent in seattle this summer is absolutely incredible and i'm so glad i got to meet so many of you in person!
happy to share that the company we started 2 months ago is now backed by @AforeVC & @kaylakav yay now back to work 🫡
what I've been cooking @AforeVC lately - our debut residency program for student builders 👩🎓 has been incredible to work w 10 incredible teams, all founded by current students/dropouts/new grads more at afore.vc/students
1/ We're 🍳#cooking this summer… #nonchalant✌🏾 if you have no idea what we’re saying...welcome to the life: just invested in 24 #studentfounders before they've had jobs, degrees, or even dorm room keys! a📷 on AforeVC's latest program, Founders-in-Residence University! #FIRU
Some random CEO of a tech company in SF dmed me asking if I wanna be his CMO. He said he only wants asian girls. Bruh, I’m running my own company. And also, since when did “Asian girl” become a marketing qualification? Had a bit of a cultural shock ngl
X is full of 20 somethings building a company/product with 0 societal value. Too many startups are chasing hype over substance. I thought we were supposed to build something people want.
We climbed up the rooftop of our airbnb to catch the sunset, and somebody called the police on us😭 I guess somebody is getting kicked out tonight
If you live in sf and you don’t sleep in the office, you’re ngmi
85+ folks showed up to a really fun @UofIllinois alumni happy hour in SF.. Excited for the next one already - DM me if you’d like an invite. s/o to @akylaiksm & @doss_hq team for cohosting!