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@keikumata
Head of Product & Eng @playaiofficial | co-founder @megaphone_hq fka @deformapp | engineer #1 @lumosidentity | @Microsoft Azure k8s & blockchain | @DukeU ECE/CS
1/ i’m very excited to share that i’ve joined @PlayAIOfficial to lead product engineering and build voice AI systems that truly understand nuance, emotion, and human intent 🎉 we’re just getting started and have a long road ahead, so here’s a little on how i ended up here 🧵
LLMs turn 10x engineers into 1000x engineers, and 1x engineers into 0.1x engineers
Thank you @stevejang and @KindredVentures for your unwavering belief in @PlayAIOfficial! Within @Meta Superintelligence Lab, we're excited to take our learnings from building voice models and products to fundamentally change the way billions of people interact with software 🚀
Congratulations to @_mfelfel @HammadH4 @keikumata and the entire @PlayAIOfficial team on their acquisition by @Meta Superintelligence Lab! All of us @kindredventures are thankful and honored to be part of their journey as their lead seed investor last year. I'm stoked for…
✍️ NEW DEAL: OneFootball Club x @megaphone_hq From viral campaigns to the community sale allowlist, Megaphone has become essential infrastructure for our onchain community growth and to reward football fans globally. What this means 👇
Meta has completed a deal to acquire PlayAI, a small artificial intelligence startup focused on voice technology bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
gmega 📣
Introducing @megaphone_hq V2!! 📣 The easiest way to launch branded crypto campaigns and allowlists. Megaphone helps drive engagment, verify wallet reputation, and distribute tokens, all in one beautiful, bot-resistant platform. Check out the beta: app.megaphone.xyz/pages/gmega
glad someone else also now knows how amazing Japanese @DennysDiner is
Me + @sharifshameem jumpstarted a company in the last 14 days. We had never worked together before. In the last 14-days we: > booked a flight to tokyo > figured out an idea out from 0 > built a product > made a lot of demos > found paying customers > discovered something we're…
NEW: 🔥 PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey are launching Erebor, a digital bank built for crypto and tech startups.
OpenAI private company stock have been tokenized by Robinhood and live on @arbitrum.
Onto Part II of our pitch showcase! We have: @shopondaydream CEO of @juliebornstein Celeste Amadon, CEO of Known @PlayAIOfficial Head of Product @keikumata @digg Cofounder @JustinMezzell Routes AI CEO @aaronsekhri @arcade_ai CEO @mnaficy Callie CEO Rachel Fong @SuperMeAI…
Better to hire and fund people who are scrappy and hungry, who can build, who have high velocity, than the person with the fancy resume with the huge ego YC has *never* had success funding or hiring the latter "Hire for slope, not y-intercept." —@paultoo
We’re happy to announce that we will be partnering with @NASCAR to bring Pengu to NASCAR fans worldwide.
a prime example of how continuing to build a pristine, valuable product for your users is key to success! congrats @henri_stern @asta_li @segall_max!! been a huge fan since day 1 and so excited for your continued journey with Stripe!
1/ Today, we're proud to announce that Stripe is acquiring Privy. We couldn’t be more excited. Privy will continue as an independent product – but now we’ll move faster, ship more, and serve you even better, so you can stay focused on your users.
if you want to learn how brands are leveraging onchain assets to build communities, watch this interview from @thatguyintech from @megaphone_hq 📣
DevNTell - Building your brand on-chain with @megaphone_hq | Guest: @thatguyintech | Host: @narb_s x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Founders who delegate distribution too early usually miss the compounding learnings. You can’t outsource the part that teaches you what makes people care.
Build a product so good, your users do the marketing
simplicity of communication is a sign of intelligence