Troy Kirwin

[NEW] a16z @speedrun request for startups: Vibe Creation Platforms We've seen Vibe Coding platforms like Lovable and Bolt emerge for application development serving non-coding consumers --> We'll soon see VIBE CREATION as an entirely new consumer experience for crafting video,…

We just got backed by a16z @speedrun. We believe the next interface is natural language. We call it the Language User Interface (LUI) An interface that talks to your APIs, understands your product, and lets users get work done with natural language (thread below)

clear sign of PMF: >> you do a demo and the would-be user DM's you after asking if you're hiring have seen this repeatedly in some of my best companies

If you’re in your 20s in tech right now, a couple of years at OpenAI, Anthropic or a great AI startup will give you 10x the career juice of any MBA or graduate degree (and a lot less debt).

the ai waifus are coming... Hedra's character focused video model now supports realtime at scale

we're hiring! come join our small and scrappy investment team building @speedrun into a transformative force for the startup landscape you'll get to place your own bets on teams at the 0->1 stage and roll up your sleeves through the most crucial iteration phase DM me

AI will lead to reality tv being even more popular than is is today streamers dump hundreds of millions on high concept, high production value scripted dramas...and then Love Island takes over the summer chart from @appfigures on how it's a monster for Peacock driving subs the…

one of my favorite personal LLM use cases is having all my credit cards stored in a ChatGPT chat and then asking: “What card should I use for XYZ purchase?” to maximize points Also checks if there are any current credit card offers for a brand (eg Hilton, On Cloud, Equinox,…

some founders think I'll be upset when they tell me they've pivoting In reality, I love it It psyches me up It shows me that the team tested their hypothesis in a structured way -> came to conviction to move on before it was too late. It shows they want to build something big…

autonomous agent or copilot UX - that is the question AI App builders dance around until they find PMF almost always, the initial bold vision pitch proposes an autopilot approach. As founders talk to users it inevitably ends up as a copilot >> It's what inspired Cognition…

early stage teams can burn days working on multiyear financial projections (and some investors are dumb enough to interrogate them) pre/seed investing should align with the founder’s war cry, not the spreadsheet

Most AI companies die from obscurity, not competition Don't be stealth. Build in public

Theodore Roosevelt: explained in 17 secs Reading his biography right now inspired this slop... @krea_ai (Seedance Pro and Kontext) / @hedra / @elevenlabsio

The Soham Parekh stack: - Cursor (IDE) - Devin (agents) - Cluely (zoom copiloting) - Granola (note taking) - ElevenLabs (voice cloning) - Superhuman (email client) What else?

We're going to look back and it's going to seem crazy that consumers were presented with a drop down menu to determine which model to use (4o, o3, o3-mini, o3-mini-high, etc) It'll be like before direct dialing, when you had to pick up a receiver and ask a human operator to…

We've had amazing teams in @speedrun from the UK and we look to double down on that going forward

NY Tech Week! Idk about this @celtics green... but it's time to build in NYC! See you this week