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Stealth. Backed by Stanford, Google, Deepmind investors.

Stockholm, Sweden
Joined September 2019
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strong correlation between handshake strength and quality of person
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The SF Australian mafia is growing
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Hamed is shipping. Watch out world
Started at an @AnthropicAI Hackathon in February. Today, Matrix OS (@joinmatrixos) is live, giving a computer for your AI agents so they don't die when you close your laptop. But for me, the story started much earlier. When I was six, I could barely read, but I would spend hours clicking through Windows XP just trying to understand what a computer could do. I think I’ve been obsessed with that question ever since. Over the past 3.5 years, I’ve built intensively with AI. I kept seeing the same pattern: the models were getting incredibly capable, but the computer around them was still designed for a human sitting in front of a screen, clicking around and typing. I joined forces with @NimaNaderi2004, we kept building, and today we’re opening signups, shipping Matrix and our desktop app, and announcing our first angel round, backed by @alexwikstrom, @bakkermichiel, @salar, @Founder_Ash, @mattiasmiksche, @fbjork, @sidk_, and @engineerrprompt among others. Since we are backed by the best, we brought @xyhstruggler , @Elibethmarch and @valeriewistrom to help build and achieve one mission. Our mission is to give everyone a Personal Cloud Computer 💚 PS: We’re also hiring engineers in Stockholm and around the world. If rethinking what a computer can be; sounds like your kind of problem, come build with us!
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everyone’s moving coding agents off their laptops. after 3 months building @joinmatrixos inside Matrix OS, i’m convinced this is the future: your agents run on a VPS/cloud computer. your laptop, phone, browser, and terminal are just shells into the same workspace. in this demo i show: - install Matrix OS on a fresh VPS - open your cloud terminal + VS Code in the browser - run Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode from the server - connect the same zellij session from local terminal - keep everything accessible from desktop + mobile we’ve shipped a few hundred PRs this way. onboarding new engineers is dramatically easier. and the craziest part: agents keep working while your laptop sleeps or while you’re on a flight. the laptop was the wrong place for long-running AI agents. Matrix OS is the open-source cloud computer for them. if you’re already stitching together ssh + tmux + tailscale + agents, would love your feedback
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update: im now doing this
Someone please make: Economist x TechCrunch Nerdy, intellectual, NOT political
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Parenting as a founder = full stacking life at 7pm Sunday Let’s go @magnushambleton
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water was cold, conversations were HOT! lets go
Reminder: the Stockholm tech ecosystem is genuinely open. @antonosika organized a last-minute swim in the sun this weekend. Anyone welcome. 50 people showed up, swam in freezing water, talked about what they're building. That's the ecosystem right now.
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Replying to @gamestop
Can i apply for a job at gamestop through this?
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what i want for valentines
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More Aussie founders killing it!!!! 🦘
Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue. Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR. We could've died three times during this journey. This is the story I've never told anyone before:
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Can't argue here
If a founder is Australian Invest in them immediately It's impossible not to have conviction on them They're literally all convicts
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Someone please make: Economist x TechCrunch Nerdy, intellectual, NOT political
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leather jacketed founders - why do you do it?
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Imagine taking 5g of shrooms and God tells you that you must return to earth to be build agentic workflows for dental PE rollups
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- leaving messages seen turned off on WhatsApp
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Distribution and stickiness win everyday
If you find yourself arguing that your company will win just because your product is better, you should staple this chart to your shirt.
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“How much do you work over the summer?” VCs:
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