Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Group Partner at @ycombinator Cofounded @gocardless and @monzo
Shipping a desktop app is simplest way to 10x your product. Den has arrived to macOS. Download it now: getden.io/download
It's an open secret in the industry that the AI customer service tools with famous founders and hundreds of millions in funding are vaporware. Expect to see a bunch of companies announce they're using AI CS from actual startups over the next few weeks.
we're hosting a hackathon @ycombinator HQ on August 9th come build AI coding agents lu.ma/hzwlapu0 Hosted by us @morphllm with @samedotdev @benswerd
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.”
Amjad Massad (@amasad) started Replit to make programming accessible to anyone, anywhere. What began as a tool for learning to code has grown into a platform pushing the limits of AI-assisted software creation and recently surpassed $100M in ARR. On The Breakdown with @t_blom…
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
Want to learn about customizing and hosting open source LLMs in your own AWS cloud? Check out this event in SF!
Register here: lu.ma/mpzu7nkx
We're hosting a live, hands-on session focused on customising and serving open source LLMs in your own AWS cloud in partnership with @AWSstartups This is a builders only event where we will: - provision a completely serverless fine-tuning and inference infra in your own AWS…
Congratulations @kul on launching Phosphor Capital! I've know Kulveer my whole life and it's not surprised me that he's been consistently rated as one of the absolute best investors by YC founders every batch. Former founders make the best investors ❤️ techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/y-c……
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
What can you build in 2.5 hours with AI? For our next Open Court, we're bringing together @AITinkerers community & other builders in London for a summer hackathon with special guest @t_blom AI products, prizes, food & summer tunes guaranteed. Apply below
Open Court Summer Hackathon with @t_blom and @AITinkerers. Kicking off with a fireside chat with Tom, then 2.5 hours to build fast. £1,000 top prize. 17 July 5pm-late Phoenix Court, London For founders, engineers and product teams. Places limited london.aitinkerers.org/preview/cp_sN-…
Thinking about applying to @ycombinator ? I'm holding office hours for future founders in London on July 10th. 30 minutes to chat 1:1 about your startup. Apply for a place here: events.ycombinator.com/AxESD1qIk
I'm hosting a @ycombinator event for early-stage founders at @monzo HQ in London on July 15th. You can apply for a ticket here: events.ycombinator.com/OCU91g6z4
🚨🚨Today we begin the search for @ARIA_research's next CEO It's not often you get to hire for a role that you believe is not only someone's dream job, but genuinely one of the highest impact opportunities in the world... but this is it.. 🧵🧵
Big news: we’re kicking off the search for ARIA’s next CEO. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious orgs in science and tech. 1/8
Wtf @karpathy just totally copied my idea at AI startup school 🤬 ❌ menugen.app ✅ recipeninja.ai