i like making videos @lattedcom
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I have left my role as Co-founder and CRO of HockeyStack.
I co-founded the company with Arda and Bugra almost 4 years ago when I was 20, and we grew it to 100 amazing people. I have the logo tattooed on my wrist.
When we first started the company, my only goals were to make $10K/month and have fun with people I love.
In a short amount of time, we closed 300+ customers, raised $50M from top VCs, worked with multiple public companies every month, and built one of the best teams I’ve seen.
I’m also super proud of the marketing/brand work we’ve done, including HockeyStack Labs, Lazy CRO commercials, taking over LinkedIn for years, and more. Hundreds of people reached out to say how much they loved our brand. Every single one of those messages made my day.
This was the first and only job I've had in my life. What surprised me the most was the impact the people I worked with had on me. I'm a completely different person than when we started. A better founder, seller, and marketer. But most importantly, I’m a better human being.
I never took a single day off the whole time I was at HockeyStack. Not because I couldn’t. But because I loved the work and loved the people I got to do it with so much that I didn’t even want to miss a single day of it!
What’s next: I’ll talk more about this chapter, launch a documentary series about my unusual journey, and most importantly, launch my new company very soon 😉
A HUGE thank you to my co-founders, our amazing team, customers, and investors. Can’t wait to share more.
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Working on a series of videos for a local restaurant and I thought I should mention that while everyone is getting Seedance 2.0 access but OUTSIDE THE US ONLY,
@Lattedcom has been offering Seedance for a while! Not to mention I love the platform, so huge shoutout to them!
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Today we’re announcing that Respan has raised a $5M seed round led by @GradientVC.
We’re building the self-driving observability, evals, and gateway for AI agents.
100+ teams already use Respan.
1B+ logs/month.
2T+ tokens/month.
And we’re just getting started.
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This platform is going places: @Lattedcom
I just tested it and it one-shot produced an incredible video.
If you are searching for a video generation agent, this is the one.
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Just as much of a sycophant as his model
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
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14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus beats world no. 5 Arjun Erigaisi and is performing at an almost 2800 level! chess.com/events/2026-tata-s…
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YC S17 alum @BillionToOneInc files for US IPO:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Pingo AI (@mypingoai) is a language learning app that helps users build fluency through real-life conversations with an AI tutor. Over 300,000 people already use Pingo to speak a new language.
Congrats on the launch, @mrmukeee and @MorrietheMoosee!
ycombinator.com/launches/O6R…
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All my AI startups are powered by @FAL so I invested in them
They're one of the nicest people to work with, extremely fast inference times but also extremely fast support
The founders are Turkish and now I have a special thing for 🇹🇷 Turkey and wanna visit Istanbul, hard working people that don't tolerate bullshit, I like it
The business case for FAL seems real, I tried setting up my own GPU server on @LambdaAPI, it's fun and I got quite far installing Claude Code and letting it do everything
But you still get stuck pretty fast, it's a lot of work to manage the layer between GPU and actually getting an AI model to output something fast while being able to scale up on demand (remember other startups with their "Queued" problems when you try run a job)
So FAL has its role, it backs a lot of the AI apps you use because the founders want to focus on building useful apps, not mess around with GPU servers
Today, we're thrilled to announce our $125M Series C funding round at a $1.5B valuation, led by Meritech Capital, marking our third successful raise in just 12 months!
fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applications, supporting over two million developers and more than 300 enterprise customers. From initial prototypes to fully scaled production, we've become the essential infrastructure enabling some of the most innovative and creative work in the industry.
Over the past year alone, we've experienced extraordinary growth—averaging 40% month-over-month, consistently exceeding our own ambitious projections. Each month, hundreds of thousands of new developers and thousands of fresh applications join our platform, unlocking entirely new use cases previously thought impossible.
With this latest round of funding, we're significantly scaling our engineering, support, sales, and marketing teams to keep pace with the accelerating demand and enthusiasm from our community.
Our vision has always been clear: build a generative media platform that effortlessly creates dynamic, real-time content across video, audio, image, and 3D. Thanks to our incredible team, dedicated partners, and visionary customers, that's precisely what fal delivers today—empowering creativity at unprecedented scale.
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Grateful to be featured in @Forbes and to go deeper and share the vision behind @phosphorcap.
Thank you to @dasha_shunina for taking the time to understand Phosphor’s mission.
That's what @garrytan, President & CEO of @ycombinator, said about him:
“His perspectives are exactly what our founders need”.
Meet @kul, twice-exited YC founder who just launched a new fund investing exclusively in YC startups.
forbes.com/sites/dariashunin…
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We're excited to finally share what we've been up to :)
Announcing Endex: An AI Financial Analyst
Today we're coming out of stealth and announcing our partnership with @OpenAI 🧵
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Hey everyone, none of our >500,000 of users will be able to use Lovable at this time. @github suspended our GitHub connection without prior notice. We previously confirmed that our usage pattern is OK with GitHub.
We need to talk to someone at GitHub, as soon as possible.
Please tag anyone that knows who might be able to help explain why we were suspended.
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we have some news to share!
blog.fal.ai/generative-media…
