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Soleio learns about “the framing device” from design pioneer @josephcohen in the latest Season 2 episode below. “If you really want to break new ground, you need to ask new questions.”
First of Kind: The @josephcohen episode What could replace the car in American culture? @infinitemachine has an answer. 00:00 Intro: Color Outside the Lines 01:50 A New Symbol for Freedom 05:52 The Stolen Moped 09:49 The P1 vs. The Vision Pro 12:52 Hard Modernism 17:26 Painters Who Paint Factories 19:42 Ten Times the Trips 23:33 The Vespa Has No Engine 27:51 Ask New Questions 32:00 The Company as Medium 34:11 What Memories Will You Make Joseph Cohen is the CEO, designer and cofounder of a new automotive company reimagining how people move through cities. His team redesigned the electric motorcycle from the ground up with the P1 and have introduced a new breed of electric bike in the Olto, pushing the bounds on what one can expect from a vehicle on two wheels. We met at IM’s factory and headquarters in New York City, where Joe walked us through the design philosophy behind the “non-car” category, why electrification unlocks radical new form factors, and what it means to bet on autonomous people over autonomous cars. – Joseph Cohen: Infinite Ride First of Kind, S2:E5 @firstofkind Hosted by @soleio and produced with @room3nyc Powered by our sponsors: @framer @cursor_ai @vercel @profound
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we’re excited to announce trajectory explorer: the first sane way to navigate agent traces. every decision your agent made is now searchable in seconds only in @raindrop_ai
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There isn't a generic formula to finding the very best founders. You can only get close by creating your own. @mollyfmielke 's is to find the "moths" of our world.
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earlier this year, we launched the first agent monitoring platform now, we are used by some of the fastest growing ai companies (@replit, @framer, @speak, @clay) and just raised a $15m seed round
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today, we're announcing our fundrai-- jk. we're shipping. meet raindrop experiments 🧪
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Exclusive: In 2023, Amanda Peyton went viral for an honest post about the closure of her startup, Braid. Exactly two years later, she's back with another group payments startup, Pool. Pool launches today with $4.5M in seed funding, 70% of it from Braid's previous VC backers.
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Three years ago I got sick from something most people overlook: mold exposure. Today, that journey comes full circle: we’re announcing MoldCo’s $8M Seed (total $11M), led by @cantos + @collabfund, to build the new standard of care for mold and chronic inflammation. The mission is clear: to serve patients who’ve waited far too long for answers. To celebrate, we’re giving away 50 free lab tests. Comment “labs” to claim one and we’ll DM you!
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RT @alterego_io: Introducing Alterego: the world’s first near-telepathic wearable that enables silent communication at the speed of thought…
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last day in san francisco during this trip, i met so many people that, for the first time ever, i finally understood what people mean when they say that their nervous system is dysregulated. i once had 4 ‘coffee chats’ in one day and downed a full latte during each one. by the fourth meeting, i could feel myself actively disassociating into the endless nuclear ether, the other persons words falling like honey across my increasingly smooth brain. i nervously asked if we could step outside, i think i need a little bit of air. they smiled and told me yes, of course, just give me a second, i need to use the bathroom. they went. and i waited and waited and waited and they never came back. after thirty minutes, i realized i had forgotten their name, and the google calendar invite had only been sent to me. i could no longer remember their face. who had i met with? i could feel my brain stem melting. i slowly approached the bathroom door and turned the handle, it was unlocked. the being i had met with was inside, their entire body turned into mass of fizzling static, blurring as it swayed from back and forth. hey man, it said, still up for that walk? i think i have to head home, i responded, but it was really great to chat. likewise, it screeched, lets keep in touch
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i think it's important as a young person to speedrun crashing out, leaving society, and becoming irrelevant so you can get down to doing serious work
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My husband is one of the most intelligent people I've ever met, and I was immediately taken by him, but over the years, I've come to learn most people can't see it. He dresses simply. He uses plain language. He likes superheroes and video games. They conclude they're not seeing a smart person. People aren't looking for intelligence itself. They look for signifiers of it, the song and dance of it, the whirling bedazzlement of "genius," like a peacock spreading its wings. That is how easy it is to fool someone.
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Today, we're excited to announce Deep Search. It’s like Deep Research, but for your production AI data. Search for anything, and @raindrop_ai automatically trains little models to accurately classify any topic or issue, across millions of events.
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Meet Olto
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If you’ve talked to me at all in the last year, you’ll know that designing a socially intelligent AI has become an obsession that tugs at the juicy intersections of philosophy, psychology, sociology, identity, love, loneliness, and what it means to be human. We’ve been building divergently but it's now feeling like a convergence. The implications are massive. And the more we build, the more alive it feels. We’re hiring—so if you’d like to stay up dreaming and building with us, reach out: new.computer
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AI products fail constantly—in ways both hilarious and terrifying. Regular software throws exceptions. But AI products fail silently. Meet @raindrop_ai : the first Sentry-like monitoring platform for AI products.
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Our biggest update so far: We're excited to announce Collaboration in @juliusai Julius is now your team's AI Data Analyst with built-in realtime collaboration. Check it out below
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excited to announce dawn notify! dawn notify quickly + cheaply analyzes millions of user messages a day to create a summary of how your product was used, where users hit issues, and how you can reproduce those issues.
Today, we're excited to make 2 big announcements: 1. Dawn is officially SOC 2 Type II Compliant 2. We are launching Dawn Notify: lightweight, on-prem, privacy-first AI observability for enterprises
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⚡️@SteinmetzInc is building the engine of electric vehicles. Inverters with 3x higher power densities, that remain cost competitive with existing solutions. ycombinator.com/launches/Mtf… Congrats on the launch, @BigCrete and @OwenBrakes!
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We’re thrilled to announce our $9.3M Seed round led by @a16z’s American Dynamism. With this capital, we’ll manufacture and bring P1 to market and lay the foundation for our broader mission to make the best non-car vehicles on earth. Alongside a16z, we’re proud to partner with @adjacent, @NecessaryVC, @amasad, @joshm, @clementdelamgue, @mollyfmielke, @benrbn, @tmrohan, @nicorosberg, @kevintwohy as we make our vision a reality. @josephcohen @EddieCohen
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