Helping you scale w Convex. Wrote the first version of Google Photos. MIT Media Lab / Google alum. Fooled Penn & Teller. Exited founder of Hello Wonder. Silly.
Portland, OR
Joined November 2008
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🦞 I’m now an OpenClaw maintainer
⚡ I work at Convex
So naturally I scaled ClawHub to support 1M WAU.
The future is crustacean-powered and runs on the best backend in the world.
Here’s how:
stack.convex.dev/optimizing-…
For all my criticisms of vc, it is structurally set up to support risk-taking. It’s like a time-reversed insurance. We need more structures that support risk-taking.
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Seth Raphael retweeted
Y Combinator Winter 2027 batch applications close soon! After you apply, @convex has a perk for you!
Just fill out the form here:
convex.link/ycw27app
Good luck founders!
Seth Raphael retweeted
Founders, did you apply to @speedrun? We have a good luck gift for you.
Complete the form here: convex.link/speedrun008
Note: You'll need your application confirmation email.
to everyone who applied to speedrun, and everyone who has supported us over the years: thank you.
behind every application is someone willing to commit years of their life to something they believe should exist. it takes conviction to pursue that. it takes courage to share a vision while you’re still working to make it real.
we’re grateful you chose to share yours with us. whether this was your first application or you’ve shared your progress with us before, we hope this is the beginning of a lasting relationship. many speedrun founders were reapplicants, and getting to know them over time has been a meaningful part of our story.
to everyone turning an idea into something people can use, depend on, and eventually wonder how they lived without: keep building.
thank you for giving us the chance to see what you see.
Seth Raphael retweeted
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ALT Dolly Parton sits on a couch surrounded by seven smiling children holding copies of her illustrated book.
Prompt injection has me worried about a snowcrash type vuln in our visual processing system. Optical illusions are 0-days. close them eyes.
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I lucked out with my investors. The truth is the power dynamic is such that there can be a huge cost to founders to not accept money. The number of meetings and pitches it takes to raise a break a company and when the runway is short. The power dynamic is very asymmetric. While a founder asking hard question is probably a signal of their confidence in raising money, plenty of great startups don’t have that luxury.
A founder call is a two-way evaluation.
Founders should also ask questions.
Ask:
- how the investor makes decisions
- what support looks like after the check
- which companies received the most attention and why
- what happens when the company misses a plan.
You are learning whether the relationship fits your company, your pace, and your definition of success. A good call leaves both sides with a clearer picture, even when the answer is no.
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Be careful who you write off. The person driving you crazy right now is collecting more history and context on you than almost anyone. Years from now, they might be exactly who you reach for.
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The amazing thing is that anyone can create their own! If you want something to work the way you work, you can create it. Here's mine:
experimenting with a lil personal project: an AI-native macOS dock with custom modes (writing, building, etc.) to help me stay focused
my agent is able to customize mode behavior and add new modes, it uses jev to classify my activity + notifications in real time & act on them
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We are experiencing co-domestication by VC. Just as Dogs and humans co-evolved around oxytocin, we are co-evolving with AI to maximize token exchange. The driving force being... VC money investing the most profitable models?
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You can tell what phase of life you're in by what's in your room. Mine just entered its back scratcher era. The TENS unit is there for moral support.
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I want my therapist to tell me that my journey is uniquely hard or ridiculously outrageous on one hand and then also tell me that it's normal and it’s all gonna be fine on the other. Dialectic anyone?
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It's been a weekend of pumpkins and being outside. and not cleaning the house. It's feeling a little dirty here.
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Then I saw how radically a life can change, and the line stopped looking like a line. It's one path selected out of a multiverse of other possibilities, other realities, other interactions.
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