mastra has hit 1 million weekly downloads 📈📈📈

Mediocrity does not need a villain. It only needs sustained inattention.

We're launching Agent Builder, your internal agent platform: - Devs write tools, select models, build workflows - Non-dev teammates assemble into agents (or vibe code), chat, publish - Includes RBAC, ownership, and visibility controls - Under the hood everything's Mastra agents

The full @asugsvsummit panel featuring our Founder and CEO, @jinal, is now available to listen to on Spotify! The session explores the rise of the “choice consumer marketplace” in education and what it means. Listen to the full conversation: hubs.la/Q04hHc0s0

Jim is a legend. Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I have a job that allows me to partner with companies like SendCutSend.

We’re proud to share that SchoolMint Recruitment has been recognized with three @TheStevieAwards, two bronze and one gold, in the 24th Annual American Business Awards®! Learn more in the announcement: hubs.la/Q04dr9fl0

At the Magnet Schools of America Conference last week, one idea came through clearly: magnet enrollment is no longer just about having a strong program. Schools also need strong recruitment. We unpack our conference takeaways and more in our latest blog: hubs.la/Q04ddK1J0

I don’t think people have fully absorbed just how big the declines in student enrollment are going to be. Eight states are projected to experience DOUBLE DIGIT declines by 2031.

Congratulations @ankurnagpal !! Thank you for letting me be a small part of your journey. I will miss your monthly investor updates 🎉

Congratulations @calcsam and @mastra - Excited to be part of your journey!

Matt Coats, SchoolMint’s Chief Evangelist, was featured on the EdTech Marketing Podcast. In Ep. 41, Why K-12 Districts Must Adopt a Sales Mentality to Survive Enrollment Decline, Matt shares why schools need a recruitment mindset to fill seats. Listen now on Spotify and Apple!

A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their permission, because it resonated and reflects what all founders and CEOs should be communicating. -- We are living through a period of compounding change. And in moments like this, the biggest risk is no longer making the wrong decision. It is moving too slowly while the world moves around you. There are two paths. We can play defense: - Protect what we have - Optimize what works - Wait for clarity It feels safe. It isn’t. Or we can play offense: - Learn faster than the environment changes - Use new tools to solve old problems in better ways - And create entirely new strategies and businesses That’s where the opportunity is. Challenge yourself to do things faster and better than you have ever attempted. Stay uncomfortable. Stay on the front foot.

2/ AI hasn’t slowed the demand for software engineers (at least not yet) There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually leading to more open roles, but since the start of this year, the increase in open eng roles is accelerating even more.

Super excited to launch our tax planning AI in beta today If you are a Carry customer who wants access, lmk and we can enable it for your account Upload your tax transcript and we check eligibility against 24 different tax saving strategies to find you money

This CA “billionaire” tax is an unrealized gains tax. A unicorn startup founder becomes a paper billionaire around $5B val. At YC we avg 2 to 4 per year (!) This will kill startups and innovation in California since a founder is illiquid while instantly on the hook for $100M

ROSS Index by @vinogradovk at @RunaCapital is open-source now!

Over five years ago, I started publishing the top trending open-source startups every quarter — the ROSS Index. It has become a handy tool for 60K developers, founders, and other OSS fans who have visited it to date. Today, I'm thrilled to make it even more useful, as we are open-sourcing all its data for more than 20 quarters on GitHub, in a convenient format. Explore our repo and star it to be notified about new index releases. And, of course, now is also the time to reveal the fresh top 20 startups by GitHub stars growth for Q3 2025 — one can find more details on them in the repo too!

Good luck on S25 Alumni Demo Day from all the YC alumni!

Congrats on the launch @samuelpark and team!!