Joseph Nelson
@josephofiowa
🦝 cofounder/ceo @roboflow (YC S20): making the world programmable. http://roboflow.com/careers. assumes positive intent.
The 8th prior founder joined Roboflow recently, though they are the first to have a $100M+ prior exit. (ex) Founders are joining Roboflow because you have autonomy, your impact is compounding, and we're so early. If you're quick, you'll be first 30. DM to write your own job.

we've been prototyping something new in visual AI. DM if you'd like to try it.

Today the US is unveiling its Action Plan to win the AI race, which has been six months in the making @DavidSacks outlines 3 core pillars that guide the 90 concrete recommendations the administration will pursue — 1. Innovation. “You have to out-innovate the competition.”…

weekend hackers made supervision trend on github tons of fun projects to be built: - DIY Ring Doorbell - Guitar Hero but for dance poses - Webcam telling you to put down your phone - Flappy Bird but your gaze is the controller ⭐️ github.com/roboflow/super…
WANT to build something with this project. open to use cases
the Vercel AI Accelerator startups move fast the Coldplay meme is already in pitch decks roboflow is a proud sponsor alongside modal, OpenAI, cursor, and AWS
Today is Demo Day for @vercel’s AI Accelerator. Truly, truly blown away by the pitches. 40 startups accepted, out of 900 high quality applications. We have over 300+ investors and leaders joining us. vercel.com/ai-accelerator
RF-DETR release next week more SOTA models coming in smaller sizes, all open source and Apache 2.0
Excited to announce RF-DETR, the current SOTA for real-time object detection, fully open source and Apache 2.0 for the community. More to come but the repo and Colab notebook are available today for you to use
TIL Robert Noyce was born in Iowa he let a friend that ran the Iowa college endowment where he attended invest early in Intel that endowment is now $1.6B

protecting wild macaws with computer vision 🦜
Discovering Roboflow to explore how to count macaw into a Mexican ecological reserve who protects more than 400 macaws ! Our dream will be to virtually ID-Tag them and know exactly how many they are protecting because he never physically tagged them !
ok, i’ll bite. we didn’t hire Soham but I do have a related story. years ago, we hired a talented engineer from NVIDIA, who worked on their perception stack. the engineer onboarded in our SF office and things started well. something started feeling off. they were available at…
guess what we're cooking is so fire that the building has to check the sprinklers

“I had a high degree of confidence that the tests would have passed had I ran them” has vibes driven development gone too far?
Pano raised a $44M Series B for their wildfire early detection eyes-in-the-sky startup. Wildfires have only become more fierce over the years and now we have software, computer vision and smart cameras to stop them before they become giant & unstoppable wsj.com/articles/ai-wi…
great idea
1/18 Introducing Frontier Valley: A new special regulation district in SV that’s larger than SoMa. Once approved, it will be America's epicenter for physical AI and deep tech innovation, and will also be a template for "robotics-first" cities that can be replicated nationwide.
and with this analogy, Beyang is granted the rights to wear Carhartt in tech
Agentic coding feels like football (hear me out). If you want steady, reliable progress, you run the ball a lot. Staging or committing is like a first down. Passing is riskier but can help score faster, and sometimes you throw a Hail Mary—when these connect, it's glorious.
Monday: former founder applies Thursday: interview one in New York Friday: interviews two and three on Zoom Saturday: final interview in New York with me, verbal offer accepted starts June 16th in New York office