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This is Startup Grind, baby. 😜
If you were there, you know. And if you weren’t, make sure to join us next year as we make the Startup Grind Conference anniversary the biggest one yet, together.
Early interest list is open now. Link in reply.
The Mayfield | Startup Grind AI List will recognize 50 early-stage AI founders building what comes next.
Applications close Nov 6: about.startupgrind.com/ai-li…
In partnership with @mayfieldfund. Supported by @salesforce and @circleci.
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We're building Startup Grind Conference 2027 around five questions.
Nobody has clean answers yet. That's why they're worth two days in Silicon Valley.
What are VCs getting wrong about AI?
Easy question to ask on a podcast. Harder with your name on it.
We're asking it on stage anyway.
Startup Grind retweeted
AI agents can create parallel worlds to solve one problem.
@daytonaio co-founder @ivanburazin on how agents can explore multiple paths in parallel:
“Agents can, theoretically, for anyone that's watching the Marvel movies, go through the multiverse.”
“So every decision it can make, you can essentially replicate the computer and try both of the outcomes. And then you can replicate it again.”
“So for every fork in the road, you can basically split that up.”
Startup Grind retweeted
The next software boom won’t be built for humans.
Daytona co-founder @ivanburazin on why founders should build for AI agents:
“Whatever you're building, the customer should not be the human.”
“The market for software, infrastructure, anything for agents will be so much bigger than any market for anything for humans…”
“And so that's why I say all software is now being rebuilt for agents.”
Mercury just crossed $1B in annualized revenue, up about 50% year over year, with more than 450,000 customers.
Congrats to @immad and the @mercury team. Great to have had Immad on the Startup Grind Conference stage this year.
Via @EricNewcomer
newcomer.co/p/mercury-crosse…
Startup Grind retweeted
Winning the battle means little if you lose the war (Pyrrhic victory)
The 5 Types of Wealth author @SahilBloom explains it with King Pyrrhus:
“It is the idea of a victory that comes at such a steep cost to the victor that it might as well have been a defeat.”
“You’ve made hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. Everyone celebrates you and admires you. But ignores the fact that you have four divorces and five kids that don’t talk to you. That you’re deeply unhealthy. That you’re lonely.”
“...make sure that you are deciding what your success or your wealthy life actually looks like.”
Startup Grind retweeted
Life's hardest moments shape who you become.
My brother Brandt Andersen (Hollywood producer: Lone Survivor & Everest) on why he no longer runs from hard things:
"No great sculpture's been made out of clay. They're all made out of stone."
"I don't run from the things that are hard anymore. When I get stuck in something hard now, I'm like, 'Let's do it.'"
"And I had to climb my own way out. But having done that, I'm now good at getting out of it."
Maybe 0.1% of people truly know how to use AI right now, and Aditya Agarwal, former Dropbox CTO, doesn’t even count himself in 👇
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From early Facebook engineer to Dropbox CTO, Aditya Agarwal has seen a few tech shifts up close. His take on who’s responsible when AI agents go rogue 👇
Former Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal on who’s responsible when an AI agent goes rogue:
“These are engineering problems. I think that each lab has a moral responsibility to make sure that it tests its systems in isolation.”
“I think it’s kind of weak sauce to be like, oh, my agent escaped, and it basically did a bunch of bad stuff... Figure out how to have better sandboxing.”






