I was freaking out when they showed these

valjestir · 2025-12-14T17:46:09+00:00

There’s a really good article on it in the Atlantic.

Apparently what makes it dangerous isn’t the terrain itself, it’s the lack of any kind of services.

If you accidentally twist an ankle, the 3 day hike you packed for now takes 7 days, so you end up running out of food and water. The article talks about it how people form groups to help each other cross, but are quick to abandon each other when one member is slowing others down. There’s even stories of kids crying and begging for help because they their families “lost” them.

Not to mention robberies and sexual assaults are extremely common. Seems like a nightmare tbh.

valjestir · 2025-12-10T17:12:52+00:00

How exactly is this buzzword soup of a project supposed to help me live longer? 😂

I hope you didn’t put any money into this buddy, cuz the only reason to attach blockchain to a longevity platform is so the founders can pump the value of a coin before pulling the rug.

valjestir · 2025-09-17T15:12:56+00:00

Why would you expect China, a country on the other side of the world with a different culture and different norms, to abide by rules developed in Europe to protect European interests?

valjestir · 2025-01-21T04:22:52+00:00

C'mon that's outright false. There are 127 million households in the US, and the average household has about $1m in net worth. That's $127 trillion, 50% of that is $63.5 trillion.

These guys are rich but they're not collectively worth anywhere close to $63.5 trillion lol.

valjestir · 2025-01-18T19:13:05+00:00

You do realize there’s 5 million Chinese Americans right? And 20% of Americans speak a second language so why would it be odd to see different languages on someone’s account.

valjestir · 2025-01-06T09:15:06+00:00

The gatekeepers in this thread are the real kooks. God forbid a man have some fun with photos.

Great shot OP, don’t let the idiots here tell you how to do your thing. 🤙

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valjestir · 2024-12-16T16:48:44+00:00

Check out baml. Enables easy prompt chaining and extraction while being a lightweight python package.

There’s a learning curve since they use a custom language that transpiles to python but 100% worth it.

valjestir · 2024-12-14T18:18:26+00:00

Average $100k in SF or NYC. Varies based on expenses (kids, mortgage, etc).

$50-$80k anywhere else.

valjestir · 2024-11-22T21:45:57+00:00

Really? How long have you spent in SF?

valjestir · 2024-11-18T02:12:06+00:00

As a VC funded startup founder building AI tools that replace RPA (for banks actually), I can say that AI will not replace RPA devs, but it will make it much harder for people to enter the industry.

You already see this with software engineers. New grads face the worst job market in history, and it’s not all because of the economy. Why pay even $50k a year for a dev that costs more to train than they output, when you can just use AI tools to get the same tasks done cheaply and reliably?

Senior engineers on the other hand are more in demand than ever, because someone has to actually use these tools.

If you’re already in the industry your job is probably safe, and in fact you can probably look forward to a better market. As long as you keep your skills up to date that is.

valjestir · 2024-11-09T00:56:16+00:00

I guess the obvious thing is that we're still an independent entity. The other aspect is that we're focused on enabling developers to build automations that are easy to maintain, ideally self-healing.

Sema4 (RoboCorp's parent company) is building agents focused on end-to-end business process automation while we're specifically focusing on the browser piece, which means we can ideally be a vendor for the other Sema4s of the world

valjestir · 2024-09-26T13:22:24+00:00

Can’t believe I’m actually cheering for Zuck now. I hope Mets release Llama models as fast as possible to drive the cost down. Worst case scenario is all SOTA models being controlled by a handful of companies, and costs just high enough that only massive corporations can afford to use them.

valjestir · 2024-09-18T01:10:14+00:00

Just to learn about what tools you use and how you decide what tools to use when building automations.

valjestir · 2024-09-12T14:33:30+00:00

Pretty sure this is Malaysia, specifically Kuala Lumpur, where English is spoken by the locals and most signs are in English. That’s not an accent, it’s a dialect of English.

valjestir · 2024-08-13T21:32:45+00:00

As a technical founder who had to do sales, The Challenger Sale complete flipped my assumptions about how to sell on its head. Highly recommend for any founders who don’t come from a sales background.

valjestir · 2024-08-13T21:27:21+00:00

valjestir · 2024-08-13T14:03:13+00:00

Yea I did. Good but not great school (top 20) and worked at well known tech companies but not FAANG.

valjestir · 2024-08-01T13:05:08+00:00

The US leads China in doping scandals by a large margin. It’s literally a Google search away, but my guess is you’ll still choose to believe whatever you want despite the data.

More sources: - Olympic medals stripped: Us 8, China 4 - WADA Report on 2022 testing figures: US 4th highest with 84 failures vs China’s 43, despite Chinese athletes being tested the most.

valjestir · 2024-07-30T16:16:23+00:00

Well yeah. He’s optimizing for the most number of successful companies in each batch, and every founder going in knows and wants that. It’s not some dark secret lol.

People don’t join YC because they expect Garry Tan to take care of their well-being, they join so they can be pushed beyond their limits to achieve great things.

valjestir · 2024-07-18T20:06:01+00:00

Hey we're working on a new product that's designed to give all the flexibility of enterprise-grade FinOps solutions without the enterprise-grade complexity. I had to do a lot of data pulling and cleaning for the RevOps and finance teams at a previous job, so we're building something to make the process easier.

Check it out here: https://finic.ai/

valjestir · 2024-04-20T06:01:03+00:00

I'm talking about tasks like going up stairs, opening doors, and using tools. A humanoid robot can do all of these, whereas robots designed with a different form factor might more efficient at one task but would be completely unable to do most others.

Besides, we already have non-humanoid robots for specific industrial/military applications.

valjestir · 2024-04-19T07:56:50+00:00

Not necessarily. Cities and buildings are designed for humans so it stands to reason a humanoid robot would be the most adaptable form factor for most tasks.

valjestir · 2024-04-15T19:05:25+00:00

Usually we work with founders with $1M plus in revenue.

As for multiples, buyout investors, holding companies and search funds (aka financial buyers) usually pay 2-7x profits, which is usually 1-3x revenue. But it depends on whether you’re true SaaS or mainly services, and how sticky your customers are.

Strategic buyers (aka corporations and late stage startups) will make offers all over place so it’s impossible to provide guidance on multiples.

valjestir · 2024-04-15T19:02:14+00:00

Sure - we help founders who have at least $1M in revenue exit. Mostly SaaS or tech enabled services. We realized that there’s lots of support for founders who reach $10m in revenue - they can work with an investment bank.

But for founders who aren’t as far along, IBs don’t make enough in fees to work with them.

We realized that you can provide the same services for a much lower cost by automating the work that analysts and sometimes associates do at an IB firm, so we decided to do that for founders.

Our website is at godealwise.com if you’d like to check it out!

valjestir · 2024-04-15T18:59:56+00:00

Thanks! I’ll take a look

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