Jason Freedman
@jasonfreedman
GP Orange Collective
A little walk and talk on why 2nd time YC founders do YC again. You already have the network. You've already learned the content. You already know how to raise money. Why take the equity hit?
I just backed Cube Creatures - The Battle Card Game Made by a 7-Year-Old on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/cubec…
This is a good podcast for those YC skeptics that want to hear a perspective that crosses 20 years with the organization. If you were to listen to just one section - it's how to give people honest advice without tearing founders down. While much of YC has been replicated…
.@jasonfreedman was an amazing guest this week on @InvestNStartups. Jason is an exited founder and General Partner at @orangecollectv. We talked about @ycombinator, AI, what founders misunderstand about M&A, open source, building founders up, and why ownership percentages are…
Excited to back this team @airweave_ai. Open AI built a similar “RAG for tools” system internally for ChatGPT to make their MCP tool calls deterministic, take the right action, and deliver the most reliable UX. Every agent will need the same, and Airweave is solving this with an…
proud to announce that we've raised a $6M seed round led by FCVC, with participation from LUX Capital, Y Combinator, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Shay Banon (Founder of Elastic), and a group of amazing investors and angels
Socialism could totally work. Don’t believe people who say it can’t. It just requires that people don’t move. Socialism works with walls. Walls to keep people in. Can’t work without the walls of course. Don’t believe anyone that says their socialism won’t require…
Just got to try out an early preview of @vybe_build’s new @supabase integration and it’s such a gamechanger. The moment you go from prompt -> app w/ live production data is so powerful
I heard it was an over-priced YC seed round with no real revenue.
I invested in Stripe in 2010 under the premise that Stripe was an index on ecommerce and SaaS Now it looks to also be an index on AI 🤖 go.stripe.global/rs/072-MDK-283…
For many many developers, they will remember when Mastra Cloud launched as a before and after moment. The older ones will someday say this was before the mastra cloud days when you had to do all this stuff yourself in addition to building your application. The younger ones…
excited to announce that mastra cloud is now available to everyone: mastra.ai/cloud no waitlist, no invite just one place to: - deploy and manage your agents, workflows, mcp servers, and tools - test in playground - monitor, observe, and debug your runs
'LLMs are utility businesses' is one of the most interesting framings I've heard. It has massive implications. Think of railroads, energy, and roads... Great write up on Andrej Karpathy's AI Startup School presentation.
One of the clearest breakdowns of where AI is headed came from @karpathy last week at YC’s AI Startup School. He said we’re in a new era of software and that software is evolving faster than at any time in the past 70 years. “You can now program by talking,” he said. Instead…
Containers within containers.
it's containers all the way down
We're an the investor in the red line. The blue line is their main competitor. It's a winner takes all market. This is the main KPI and defines the winner. We invested in December 2024. It's nice to see Slope Over Y-Intercept in action.
2028 presidential prediction time. Third place will be either the candidate from the Democrat or Republican Party. The winner will win in an electoral college landslide.
We just found out Zuck is offering $100 million signing bonuses for Orange Collective founders that leave for Meta. Fortunately, none of the good ones have left yet.
How big will the top YC companies become? Not by valuation. But by team size?