Wyatt lansford

I started YC S25 today building @pallyai Throughout the batch, I’m going to spill all of the secrets that YC has to share about building a billion dollar company Follow for all of the tips from a guy who just likes building things

best quote from @im_roy_lee so far Everyone is wrong except you.

We keep our intern's room at 90f so that they are always working instead This is our alpha

Worst part of living in SF is there is no rain to wash my car for me

Lesson #14 from YC S25 Given all of the windsurf drama, this is topical :) @_mohansolo, founder & CEO of windsurf: More than anything, you want a startup with a high ceiling Startups are vectors, and if the ceiling is high you can always shift faster than established players

If you're still using git in 2025 you're ngmi

Lesson #13 from YC S25 Straight from president of OpenAI, @gdb The future is uncertain, but scaling is not. LLMs still have a long future ahead ---- Not sure if I'm totally on board with this one

Our intern pushed a bug to prod so we had to put him in the basement :(

going to events in sf is like being in an abusive relationship

Lesson #12 from YC S25 From investing legends @vkhosla & @garrytan If you are investing or building, always look for the beginning of the exponential curve in technology Most people don't see it because it looks flat early on. But if you see it, you are seeing the future

Lesson #11 from YC S25 Just have a bias to action Most of your problems can be solved if you just start doing stuff

Originally I made searching for anyone in the world a whole product and company. Now it’s just a new feature for pally We are moving fast yo

Lesson #10 from YC S25 Winning enterprise contracts is easy if you get internal champions on your side How do you do that? Just become friends with them. That’s it. Send the SDR a Starbucks gift card and you’ll have them on YOUR team

Introducing the CTO of pally! @wylansford

Lesson #9 from YC S25 Even more from the @xuster People will pull your product in so many directions. Talk to 10 people, get 10 different directions. 100 people == 100 different directions. But 1000? Then you start to see patterns. Focus on the patterns.

Lesson #8 from YC S25 More from the @xuster Your target users should be the people who are willing to give over their life savings. If they aren't willing to do this, they don't really have the problem you are solving

Lesson #7 from YC S25 Re: Users by the @xuster Trust is everything. You should beg, borrow, and (not!) steal to get your user's trust.

Soham Parekh poisoned our water supply, burned our crops, and delivered a plague onto our houses

Lesson #6 from YC S25 “What I learned from working for Elon Musk” One of the most interesting chats of the day. It all boiled down to: Delete part of the process. Optimize. Then after the process is perfect, accelerate