So fun to join @Kieranleehill #20Angel pod for frank chat on angel investing my new fund @_CommonMagic If there's one thing I've put my 10k hours into, it's answering; "what IS community?" Listen tell me what you think of my current definition 🔥 open.spotify.com/episode/6kw…

Today is the biggest day for Ellipsus since we launched in 2023!🎉 We began building Ellipsus out of a simple belief: writers deserve a place to create, collaborate, and share their work without handing over their words, their data, or their creative process to bad actors and Big Tech—a promise that matters now, more than ever. 🧵⬇️

Launching @sault_ai today, with a mission to increase the economic capacity of AI agents. Starting with ability to give your agents pocket money! Agents are unbelievably capable now, they can plan, execute, write code, but the moment they hit a paywall everything stops, the automation dies and a human has to step in.

Imho, solo GPs probably won’t need a traditional CoS in the same way going forward, because most ops workflows (scheduling, CRM, admin coordination, etc.) will get heavily streamlined through agents/workflows over the next few years. I think EMs will increasingly need what I’d call “gravity makers.” I don’t even have a precise JD for these ppl yet, but you kinda know them when you meet them. Usually they are: > hungry college kids or young operators actively rejecting the traditional 10-year career path > choosing venture intentionally, not because it’s “cool” > obsessed with curiosity, focus, execution > terminally online and monitoring the market daily > consuming information from X/Substack/@tbpn/@MTSlive old books/research papers at the same time > hunters, not planters: they roll up sleeves and go online IRL to find the most interesting founders before everyone else > deeply plugged into emerging communities and niche ecosystems > building media, distribution, automations, workflows from day one even with almost no resources > AI-native and constantly experimenting with tools/workflows > good at turning raw info/data into actual insights > developing taste and chasing authenticity > good writers who can articulate observations that later become contrarian theses > able to jump from “build a Notion LP portal” to “make a G Sheet Claude fund model” in the same afternoon > low ego, humble, trust the process And with the right GP, these ppl eventually become force multipliers that make 1 1=3 instead of just 1 1=1.5. Because in a world where competition for access among funds is insane, the most important thing from day one is building enough "gravity" that the best founders naturally come to you first. All of this probably sounds blurry and hard to define. But ppl who are deep in the ecosystem probably know exactly the type I’m talking about.

we need to retire the term “network effects”, mostly cuz this term is now coopted more often by non builders than ppl actually doing the hard work of creating something from nothing. also it weirdly screams growth hacky. if products are designed well, if they’re useful, there will naturally exist shareable moments that expand the reach of the product. for skye we focus on natural & organic elements that help surface delightful moments that ppl can’t help but share. e.g. we do not make things by intentionally making them shareable from the start. you can tell who does this pretty quickly & they make you want to take a cold shower afterwards.

Today Ethos announces our $22.75M Series A led by @a16z, with participation from @generalcatalyst, @xtxmarkets, @MattEvantic, and @_CommonMagic. Ethos turns what you know into recurring income - matching your expertise to expert calls, research, AI training, fractional work, and full-time roles. 35,000 people are joining Ethos every week. People are making $10,000 every month on Ethos. AI shouldn’t replace you. It should make you irreplaceable. Build your profile at askethos.com.

Every agent demo is about travel booking. But not a single one is working. Give your agent travel search and booking capabilities with something built for them. It's called Jinko, the travel MCP and CLI built for agents. Flight booking is live now. Next is hotel.

Today we're coming out of stealth at Modern Relay with $3M from @PointNineCap , @emergelab, @AminoCollective and @_CommonMagic alongside exceptional angels including Charlie Songhurst, Michael Boehler and Thomas Clozel. We are building the context graph for AI-native orgs: the source of truth for company data, policies, decisions and the logic between them. Humans and agents share the same state in which they coordinate work, with changes branched, reviewed, and merged before they land. So knowledge actually compounds. Omnigraph is the open source engine underneath: an agent-native graph database with git-style workflows, vector/fts search, and typed queries. We believe intelligence is a solved problem. The next decade belongs to the companies that make their world models agent-accessible. And we're here to enable them.

Excited to announce that @hbarra , @alcor and I are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs with the entire @Dreamer team today. The last few months have been extraordinary: we built Dreamer, put the beta in the world just a month ago, and saw magic come to life for real people. Since then, thousands of people have used Dreamer to build personal, intelligent software with our Sidekick in the world’s newest and most popular programming language: English! They're building and sharing agents to manage email, calendar, and to-do’s, create learning tools for their kids, learn new languages, plan trips with friends, become better cooks, help them with work, achieve their health goals, or simply to creatively express themselves—all sorts of surprising and uniquely personal needs. These are agents as unique as the people building them, because they're built exactly the way each person wants them to be. We’ve captured some of our favorites at dreamer.com/community-letter. What matters most here isn’t the early momentum; it’s what Dreamer has enabled people to do. People are building things they’ve wanted for years. They’re solving real, important problems no traditional software company would ever prioritize, because they’re too niche, too bespoke, too personal. What company would ever build for an “n of 1”? Our bet from the beginning has been that software should be personal, malleable, and shaped by the person using it. The constraint was never people’s imagination. It was the fact that building software is out of reach for most people. This early chapter gives us conviction that the idea resonates, the need is real, and the moment is now. @alexandr_wang was helpful to us from the very beginning, and when we showed Dreamer to Mark Zuckerberg and @natfriedman earlier this year, it was clear right away that we share the same vision of the future: one where billions of people have the power to create software that makes their lives better. We’re thrilled to accelerate this mission by joining Meta Superintelligence Labs and licensing our technology to Meta. Read more at meta.com/superintelligence. Deeply grateful to our investors @jillchase124 and @ninaachadjian for supporting our vision for a more personal, creative, and intelligent future for software. Thank you for the trust, the thought partnership, and for being in our corner at every step. To everyone in our community who built with us: thank you. You've taught us what's possible, and you're the proof this works. We're so grateful, and we're just getting started!

my cousin pitched me a greeting card company 5 times over 5 years. i said no every single time. then in 2025 i finally said yes. to a paper company. while every founder i knew was racing to build AI agents, we walked into VC meetings pitching snail mail. we kept telling investors: in a few years saying your company "uses AI" is going to sound as ridiculous as saying you're "an internet company." so we skipped that part. escargot is not a greeting card company. it's a way to stay close to the 15-20 people you actually care about. we remind you when the moments are coming, make it stupidly easy to show up for them, and close the loop so you actually feel it. no algorithms. no hashtags. just slowing down and being thoughtful. today @BusinessInsider published a feature on what we're building. we raised $2.75M led by @NWischoff and @HannahGreyVC with @southpkcommons , @_CommonMagic , @NextWaveNYC , @bentossell , and @LizaGurtin . grateful to my co-founder and cousin Andrew for not giving up after 5 rejections. and to our team — this doesn't exist without you. cards are just the beginning 🐌

The most important decision isn't the decision to build; it's WHAT to build ( WHO to build it with). -1 to 0 matters but London lacks spaces for proto-founders to come together. First get together was brilliant; people working on adaptive UIs, consumer hardware, etc. DM to join