Pete Koomen
@koomen
GP @ycombinator, cofounded @optimizely https://koomen.dev
This is excellent
A whole lot of people are telling you that AI is going to kill jobs and increase inequality. They have no idea what they're talking about. noahpinion.blog/p/stop-pretend…
Go @LuciousIV and Zac! Love seeing these guys getting more and more attention but it isn't just because they make great videos. They also built a product that people love using, which is much harder to do! @TryBiteSight
How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/how…
🎉 BIG NEWS: TRIEVE IS JOINING MINTLIFY 🎉 Denzell and I are officially joining the @mintlify team after they acquired Trieve! This one feels right. When we started Trieve in 2023, we were just two devs frustrated with building search for our legal tech product. Every retrieval…
If you want to start a software startup, you should still learn to program. Even if AI writes most of your code, you'll still be in the position of an engineering manager, and to be a good engineering manager you have to be a programmer yourself.
Today we launched our new platform: Clado Atlas. Atlas represents a new age of people search engine—one that understands intent, not just keywords. It works by combining small language models trained to interpret your query semantically, retrieve a precise, complete set of…
Just 4 months ago, we applied to YC with barely more than an idea - still mid-validation with OSS users and no real traction. Fast forward to today: we’re building Cua AI full-time thanks to that leap. 1/3
YC Partners @koomen and @GuptaAnkitV are hosting 1:1 office hours for founders attending ICML next week! If you’re considering starting a startup or are in the early stages of building a company — we’d love to meet you. Sign up at events.ycombinator.com/icml-2025-oh
Build a company good enough to get bought twice.
Excited to announce INSTANT QUOTING for wire harnesses. Go to loombotic.com
Ankit and I will be at ICML next week holding office hours. If you're working on (or thinking about working on) a startup, I'd love to meet you!
YC Partners @koomen and @GuptaAnkitV are hosting 1:1 office hours for founders attending ICML next week! If you’re considering starting a startup or are in the early stages of building a company — we’d love to meet you. Sign up at events.ycombinator.com/icml-2025-oh
I’m thrilled to announce that @onetext has raised $5 million in seed funding to build the future of payments. 👉 Read @TechCrunch's exclusive (link in thread). Our rockstar investors include Coatue, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Citi, Good Friends Venture Capital (founders of…
I wrote about how @ZeusLiving (YC S11) survived the pandemic in a thread that went viral with over 2M views. Here's the update and what I'm up to next. 2021: Zeus survived COVID 2022: Chewed glass & made the portfolio profitable 2023: Sold Zeus to @theblueground (40,000+ homes)…
2020 was a challenging year. The pandemic crushed my startup, @ZeusLiving. We were in a mad fight for survival. I learned a lot about resilience, teamwork & belief, whilst making some mistakes along the way. I'll share some of that experience here. /Thread
The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing. Its features are slowly crystalizing: - Natively multimodal…
I’m so excited to announce Gemma 3n is here! 🎉 🔊Multimodal (text/audio/image/video) understanding 🤯Runs with as little as 2GB of RAM 🏆First model under 10B with @lmarena_ai score of 1300+ Available now on @huggingface, @kaggle, llama.cpp, ai.dev, and more
If you ever do find the thing you truly love to do that is also making something people want, all you have to do is nose to the grindstone on that thing, and compounding takes care of the rest! There are few bigger blessings in life than discovering what that is.
Pete @koomen - “The most valuable thing you’ll get out of university or your first job is the people you meet.” “You’re in the most fertile ground for finding cofounders.”
.@daltonc and @paultoo are two of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with. Specifically, they’re the definition of independent, original thinkers. It’s going to be a refreshing change for founders who get to work with them vs the fomo driven investors they usually deal with.
After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator. YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul,…
It's hard to overstate how much @daltonc has given to YC. Much of what I've learned about being a good YC partner came from watching him. Grateful to have gotten the chance to work so closely together.
After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator. YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul,…
Dalton + PB is going to be a formidable combination. Each of them would be the smartest partner at a normal VC firm.
After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator. YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul,…
Well…I side hustled too close to the sun and ended up with a real business. So some personal news: I’m going full time on @chatprd (and How I AI) 💕 A few thoughts as I embark on this new adventure: