building gtm @noondesign | prev @v0 @vercel | angel investor | movement coach | girl dad
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Some milestones make you stop and feel every step it took to get there. Today is one of them!
Today I'm beyond excited to help introduce @noondesign : the first dual-canvas where you design how a product looks AND works, directly on production code.
I was fortunate enough to meet @bandiaditya and @kushagrasinha7 through my good friend @smothers_john early last year. As I learned more about the mission they were on to help Design teams truly step into the AI era, it just made sense. After working with Engineering and Product teams, the natural next step for me was Design.
In a world full of roundtrips, workarounds and vibe-code maxxing, we're here to provide a one way ticket that allows Designers to just Ship!
To help support our mission we've partnered with some of the industries best firms and leaders @chemistry , @firstround, @ScribbleVC , @svangel, @AforeVC, @soleio @joulee, @iansilber, @johnnie, @lil_dill and many more!
Head to noon.design for early access!
I’m thrilled to announce we’ve raised $44M to build a new home for product design. Meet @noondesign.
No workflow is more broken and fragmented in 2026 than the product designers’. The very same people who care most about building software don’t have software purpose built for them. @kushagrasinha7 and I have lived this problem first hand as designers ourselves.
That’s why we built Noon. The first product design tool that works entirely on your product code, so you can design not only how a product looks, but also how it works. With AI at its core that works in seconds, not minutes.
For the first time, you can create, iterate, build, test and ship. All in one canvas. No translations or roundtrips to the codebase and back.
Comment “Get Noon” and we’ll get you on the list for early access.
Huge congrats to @kevinweil and @warpsciences on the launch! Proud to be an investor backing an exceptional team of humans and operators.
AI can expand what people accomplish. Excited to see Warp put that potential to work helping scientists develop new medicines faster.
💥 Introducing Warp Sciences, a new company applying AI and robotics to help the world develop new medicines faster.
We’ve raised a $215M Series A led by @lightspeedvp to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into the lab, and build scientific capacity here in America.
I co-founded Warp with my long-time friend @dpatil, FAIR co-founder @manohar_paluri, and drug hunter Sol Reisberg. The early team is full of incredible people like @bkspears9, who helped achieve Q>1 fusion at LLNL.
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Congrats on the launch to @oqbrady and the rest of the team!! Exciting times ahead!
Today Hone launches Engines: AI that owns business outcomes.
Chatbots give answers. Agents do tasks. Engines deliver outcomes, and we hold them responsible for creating real value, measured in actual dollars instead of tokens or vibes.
You point it at a business metric, and the Engine figures out the rest. It onboards itself, builds the necessary agents, skills, and memories, collaborates with the right people, and gets better with experience.
From AI leaders to global enterprises, our customers have already used Engines to:
• Uncover millions in procurement savings
• Optimize product funnels
• Manage credit risk
• Increase qualified pipeline in new territories
• Accelerate implementations and improve account management
To scale this impact across the economy, we’ve raised a $60M seed led by Benchmark and Index with participation from Elad Gil, Hanabi, Definition, Diffusion, Lux, SV Angel, and Align.
AI’s raw capabilities are far ahead of the value it creates in the real world, and Engines will help close the gap.
Here’s how they work…
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One the best parts about working at any company are the colleagues that become truly amazing friends even afterwards.
Grateful to have reconnected with some of the former team to celebrate our good friend Chris and catch up on all the beautiful life that we’ve continued to create for ourselves since parting ways.
Congrats @FaroukAdeleke3 and team on the launch!
jev isn't production ready. today @modaicdev is launching Mo, the first multimodal decision model that learns from its mistakes.
most production tasks involve subjective decision-making, where the last mile of calibration and alignment has always fallen on the developer. Mo closes that gap on its own. it refines its instructions and weights from the signals already in your workflow to learn what a good decision means for you.
use Mo for the decisions where alpha matters the most like LLM judging, lead scoring and qualification, content moderation, resume screening, and more.
if you're already using another decision model like jev, plug it into Modaic and it becomes self-improving too :) 🐙
modaic.dev
docs.modaic.dev
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Want to find one of the most intentional environments to chat and learn about all things design and it’s footprint across many realms. Then make sure to check out the next Meridian event hosted by @belindahuang and team!!
A 3d artist, a Cambridge philosophy PhD, and a computer graphics guy walk into the intersection of art and technology in San Francisco ☀️
They're all designers, they each give a talk. @DrCapsoul, Roxane Noel, @reathchris, next Wed 9/9 @tiatplace
Last month's recap by @dhillondiaryy. RSVP in comments
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There's a lot of new blood in SF these days, and I hear the comparisons constantly.
"This neighborhood reminds me of ...."
"SF should be more like ..."
"... does this better."
We get it. You came from somewhere else and feel some type of way.
But as someone born and raised in the Bay Area, I've never felt the need to measure this city against somewhere else. This place has always been its own thing.
A city that built world-changing technology, sparked cultural and artistic movements, rebuilt itself after catastrophe, welcomed generations of immigrants, and somehow managed to be both gritty and breathtaking at the same time.
SF isn't interesting because it's becoming like somewhere else. It's interesting because nowhere else is quite like San Francisco.
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I try to remind myself of this weekly in terms of world vs. SF and AI adoption. This framing helps lower my cortisol levels
There’s an insane amount of alpha in:
- People in SF leaving SF to see how people and companies around the world are using AI (hint: most are still using it primarily as search)
- People outside SF spending even two weeks in SF to see how people and companies are operating here (hint: many are already living in the future)
This may be obvious to some, but the gap right now is staggering. The global diffusion of AI is a massive opportunity.
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“Design isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the highest ROI investment most companies ignore.”
Designers are the most underrated people in tech.
Engineers get the credit for building the product. PMs get the credit for shipping it.
But designers?
Designers are the reason anyone wants to use it in the first place. And this goes back to something @johnmaeda (former Head of Design at MIT Media Lab) said:
"Design is the body language of your product. It tells people how to feel before they even read a word."
What he meant is that design isn't decoration.
Design is the first impression, the trust signal, the reason someone stays or leaves in the first three seconds.
And nobody talks about that.
Designers are the ones fighting for the user when everyone else is fighting for the deadline.
They're the ones saying "this flow doesn't make sense."
They slow things down to make them right, then get blamed for it.
McKinsey studied this: companies that invest in design OUTPERFORM their industry by two to one in revenue growth.
Design isn't a nice-to-have.
It's the highest-ROI investment most companies ignore.
Designers don't get the credit. They just make the product worth using.
ALT A diverse group of professionals collaborates around laptops, discussing design ideas in a modern workspace with wooden walls.
ALT Two men sit on stage, one holding a microphone, discussing design in technology. A water bottle is placed nearby on the floor.
This one really hits home for me.
Being Bay Area born and raised I’m forever a 49er faithful! Ido Portal (person CMC is training with here) has probably had some of the biggest impact on my life in many ways.
I studied under Ido’s method for many years and continue to learn from arguably one of his top students to this day.
- It indirectly was a core part of my transition from coaching into tech.
- It brought me community.
- It allowed me to feel, sense, experience and perceive everything differently.
The layers are deep and infinite and it’s cool to see the world’s highest level athletes choose this path of exploration.
If you're in SF and looking to tap into a community of designers sharing about aspects of their life that help shape the way they show up in the world...then you won't want to miss this!
Link to join ---> luma.com/opentab002
Back after a wild May and June— Meridian's Open Tab is returning July 8 in SF.
Open Tab is our short-form talk series for designers sharing what they're exploring outside of work— side projects, craft obsessions, questions they're still chewing on. Decks welcome, polish optional.
July's lineup:
• Omar on indigenous and vernacular architecture in Afghanistan
• @thelucre on design in an era of extreme automation
• @meeseachelle on DaaS, dance as a service
Request a spot, link in comments ✨
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I like how "enrich data" just translates to "creep heavily" in the most professional way possible.
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Shoutout to @belindahuang for hosting an amazing first event for her Meridian design series and to @noondesign for sponsoring!
It was such a great group of attendees and speakers. If you’re in SF and want to tap in to what’s going on at the center of design, then join us for the next one!
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And wouldn’t have flowed as smoothly as it did without the one and only @doingmybeth at the helm to help!
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If you're a designer and in SF next week...you won't want to miss this!
Less than a week out. Four designers with something to say— come hear it.
Open Tab is a series of short talks on what designers are actually thinking about right now. Intimate, geared toward product designers, but really just a good excuse to get good people in a room. 🧡
Excited to announce May's lineup:
• @alexkehr on injecting your design taste into AI coding tools
• Lois on reinventing yourself in the age of AI
• @vladgeorgescu on herding agents toward a shared goal
• @yitong on design post-third impact
If you're in SF, grab a spot → luma.com/c1025wvp
Want to speak at a future one or partner? DM me or apply → forms.gle/FfxjPkgtZbL96Zr5A
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