Shamir Allibhai
@theShamir
Create rough cuts fast: http://www.heyeddie.ai Founded/sold Simon Says. ex-Meta (vid AI / infra). Champion for storytellers, builder of video tech.
This Abundance mindset and give first mindset can literally 10x your happiness and even your career success Been trying to live these truth the last few years
it might be cringe to say but it's crazy how much "abundance mindset" really does help you live a happier and wealthier life
Oh I know! BUT...once-upon-a-time, #Avid was the innovator, the disruptor, the one that captured the imagination of the most forward-thinking among those creating video. Here's the story of the founder of Avid, Bill Warner: roughcut.heyeddie.ai/p/star-trek-a-…
Using industry standard editing software for YouTube… was interesting 😬 Live now on my channel! Thumb by @antxoch
Peter Thiel and the Antichrist nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opi… via @NYTOpinion Wow! Recommend watching!
A customer asked nicely if we can support Italian interviews. So we did. Ciao!! open.substack.com/pub/roughcuted…
🤦🏽♂️ 24 years later and their brain cells are still asleep
24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11 Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City
🎬 Last year, I spoke with hundreds of video editors, video professionals, and creative teams. Some were just starting out. Others were absolute beasts — cutting feature films, national ads, and viral social content. But there was one thing the most advanced editors were all…
🎬 Hollywood was wild. Scandals, drugs, dead actors in bathtubs. Enter: Will H. Hays — a preacher sent to save the industry’s soul. He didn’t just preach — he censored, cleaned house, and left behind the infamous Hays Code. The full, juicy story👇 “The Preacher Who Saved…
🎬 @heyeddie_ai just leveled up. Now you can log & organize 400 B-roll clips at once. It's 2x larger quantity from the previous limit. No more "MVI00321B.mov" nightmares. Your messy media bin? Eddie eats it for breakfast. 🍳🔥 Try Eddie, your AI video editor:…
Introducing Aurascope 2.0 Unprecedented times call for unprecedented speed. What’s New? ✶ A public feed — see scans from around the world ✹ A global leaderboard — find out who’s radiating the most aura ✸ Uploads from your camera roll now supported ✮ Invite friends to…
One part of the startup journey people dont talk about a lot are the friends you make along the way. Thanks for having me on and your friendship.
🚨New Episode Alert 🚨 For the latest @buildinpublic_ podcast episode, I got to chat with @theShamir He's the CEO of @heyeddie_ai which is the "Cursor for Video Editing" - an AI assistant that handles all the tedious post-production work video pros hate. This is just a…
“Waymos don’t have human drivers, they’re devoid of humanity,” she said. Destroyed robot taxis are “symbolic of the attempts, throughout the history of this country, by the tech industry to strip us of community.” 🙄 nytimes.com/2025/06/09/tec…
Wait, share that story…you “were failing last year”. From afar it seems 🚀
We didn’t “recently” do a cut. We were failing a year ago so had to do a layoff, then even more quit. We got down to 50% before Agent launch and things took off. Despite being smaller, today we’re way more productive thanks to AI. But we’d rather grow the team and do more!
Stay in the video editing flow. @heyeddie_ai pulls your videos from Premiere/Resolve/FCP, including those complex ones like BRAW/R3D!
🎬 Calling all documentary filmmakers: the *1,000 Docs* program. Apply here: about.heyeddie.ai/1000docs When we started building @heyeddie_ai, it wasn’t just about saving time. It was about giving storytellers more room to focus on what matters: the story itself. And one group of…
This is for Eddie: about.heyeddie.ai Raw footage in --> edits out, incl. social clips, find themes, or the powerful rough cut mode: youtu.be/kiP4zlSKe4E?si…
Is anyone making AI tooling for video editing? ie. take raw footage and output clips in a meaningful fashion (or much more)
Our first two channels were YouTube and Substack
Today every tech company is also a media company Only some have realized that