Nicolas Dessaigne (@dessaigne) on X (original) (raw)

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  Huge congrats to
  @EXA_AI
  who just raised a crazy 85MSeriesBata85M Series B at a 85MSeriesBata700M valuation! I sat down with
  @WilliamBryk
  to discuss why Exa is building the search engine for AI, not humans.
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  I recently sat down with
  @mukundjha
  and
  @madhavjha
  , the founders of
  @emergentlabs
  , one of the fastest-growing AI startups I’ve seen! They hit $15M ARR just 3 months after launch. Here are some takeaways from our conversation 🧵
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  Dalton interviewed us at
  @algolia
  for YC W14, but that was just the beginning. He supported me as a first-time founder, and again when I joined YC as a new partner. I've learned so much from you
  @daltonc
  ! I can't thank you enough! Congrats on this new chapter!!!
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  Still buzzing from the
  @ycombinator
  event we hosted in one of Paris’ most iconic venues. So many future founders in the room! Huge thanks to
  @solomonstre
  ,
  @kiwicopple
  , and
  @t_blom
  for sharing their stories, and to
  @unaitefr
  for helping make it all happen! 📍La Sorbonne
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  This is a very thoughtful response. I’ve been impressed by how the
  @continuedev
  team has handled this difficult situation. They are great builders who have been quietly focused on building the best product and are exactly the kind of founders we want to have in the YC community.
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  One of the best parts of working at YC is witnessing insanely ambitious projects getting started. Lumen Orbit is a perfect example: they’re building Data Centers in Space! 🚀 Check them out:
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  If you are not a designer and want to create beautiful react app, Polymet is your tool!
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  Huge congrats to the whole
  @algolia
  team! I'm so proud of the impact you all have on the world, one search at a time 🚀
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  AI agents are taking over software. Let's make building them easy.
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  We still have a few slots available. Applying to YC may change your life like it changed mine. Deadline is tomorrow.
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  Learn from Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng and Fei-Fei Li. They will all be at AI Startup School on June 16.
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  YC has transformed my life in so many ways! In 2014, it changed Algolia’s trajectory, making us 10x better founders. Now, it’s doing it again, this time by helping me support a new generation of founders to be even better than we were. Happy 20th, YC!