honored to have you as an investor in Sava, Max. congratulations on this next stage!

ARE YOU WITH US? For the first time since 2005, we're heading to the FINAL FOUR.

Happy 10 years @southpkcommons...an honor to spend my recent -1 to 0 journey at SPC NYC. What a unique and beautiful community you've created, proud to be an alum. Congratulations! @AgrawalArian @adityaag @rsanghvi @slaster27

Sava is another great example of a startup going “full stack” and using AI to directly compete with an existing, enormous , dinosaur industry, rather than just sell software to it.

Sava (@savatrust) is building an Agentic Trust Company to modernize how $6.5T in U.S. trusts are administered. Driven by how painful it was to set up trusts for his family after selling his S12 company, @nimit is back at YC to build a better way.

$3 Trillion is currently stuck in unpaid invoices. An average invoice takes 59 days to clear. If you're doing >$10M in revenue, getting paid in 30 days instead of 59 days will literally make you millions over 2 years. Introducing Monk. It collects your money faster and pays for itself in 30 days, guaranteed. Fast-growing companies like ElevenLabs and Profound rely on Monk. The Problem: 39% of the $3T stuck is due to two stupid reasons: 1. "Please fix this comma in the invoice and then we'll pay you'" (this happens 2-3 times per transaction) 2. "Sorry the payment reminder got buried in my inbox" (automated emails get ignored) A payment that should take 2 days, takes 10 days. Your cash on hand is embarrassingly behind "recorded revenue". To fix this, we raised $4M led by @btv_vc with participation from @gtmfund and @danonanthony. For our first product, we had to innovate on 3 dimensions: 1. Monk turns signed contracts into invoices with near-perfect precision - We leverage frontier models to extract key terms from your deals and turn them into invoices. 2. ⁠Monk collects payments agentically with a 24% better reply rate than automated emails: - Tuned to write emails that feel like a human request, not spam. Your invoice is competing with everything in their inbox. - We know how to find an alternate point-of-contact when someone is OOO, when to reach out, and what tonality yields a higher response rate. If you had someone on your team whose invoice emails got answered 24% more than others - that would be a big deal. You’d make them the head of revenue collection. 3. Granular visibility into your cashflow: - Understand your cash position, aging, or expansion/contraction at customer level. Book a demo at monk.com/book-a-demo-form and we guarantee that Monk will pay for itself within 30 days. If you've read this far, we are giving away 40 water-tight contract templates. This would cost >$10K to any agency, startups, or freelancer, to create from scratch. Retweet this and comment 'Monk' and we'll send them to you.

The worst thing that can happen to your startup isn't failure. It's succeeding at building something small after taking venture funding. You should be more afraid of local maxima.

Not understanding the haters. This ad is awesome! Loved watching the animated history of life on earth in a unique style 🌎

I rarely have regrets about living in NYC but this is one of them.

love this Bill Belichick quote as recalled by Tom Brady during the NFL playoffs broadcast tonight. "You can't win, till you keep from losing."

Congestion Pricing is lowering traffic on the bridges and tunnels coming in from New Jersey but…no impact on the actual traffic congestion in the city itself, now that NYC schools are open.

I recently saw A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic. 👌👌 Something important most people don't appreciate about Dylan is that he helped establish the entire idea of "singer-songwriter." Before the 60s, there was a strict division between song-writers and singers in pop music. Songwriters would write songs that would then be given to performers to record. Pop albums were filled with old popular songs and just a few originals written by the singer. The idea of singers being able to write their own songs introduced this authenticity and introspection in music that defines music today including hip hop, rock, etc. We take it for granted today but it was a big deal when Bob dylan (and the Beatles) pioneered it. If you haven't seen the movie yet, go see it, it was great. The Dylan song I'm loving today is North Country Blues. He was only about 20 when he wrote it!

Class act

Prescription for recovery from an All Inclusive Resort vacation: 1 week of heavy fasting and working out for each day spent at Resort.

I sold my company too early. It’s true. After we sold Fullstack Academy, many people asked, why didn’t you continue growing a year longer, and sell it for more? The truth is: you can only sell your company too early. Selling a company is a long process. It takes months of hard work on both sides of the table and at every step along the way, the deal can break down. The Buying CEO has to sign a big check at the close of this process. It is easy to get cold feet. If, however, they truly believed they were buying a company that was going to 10x from here, I'm sure their feet would warm up pretty quickly and get back them to signing table. M&A deals can only happen when both sides believe they are winning big. Companies can only be sold too early!

I recently figured out my net worth. Did you know "net worth" is one of the most Googled phrases? We've all seen "[name] net worth" as a top suggestion when Googling someone. The world is obsessed with this metric! Late last night, I paused to figure out mine...and it had me in tears. They were both sleeping right next to me. The people who love you are your net worth. Hug ‘em tight this season, folks! 🎄

Avg. engineer spends 830 hrs/year fixing bugs. To solve this - we built a new kind of mobile testing platform. Our first product allows customers to get client tests results without any implementation or any script. Our mission is to increase output of engineering teams. Manual testing sucks so solving QA is our phase 1.

Over coffee today with a founder 3 years into the journey, he said: "I'd truly be happy running this company forever." What a dream to be running a company that makes you feel this. How lucky are his co-workers to be working for this CEO?

“One ChatGPT query requires 10X the energy compared to a Google search.” (according to CNBC). 👀 So incredibly misleading. How many Google searches would replace one ChatGPT query for you? How much energy is required to serve the browsing after clicking on search results? What about the electricity needed to sort through the mountain of data and compile what you actually need? Of course we need to make AI way more energy efficient, but you can’t just compare a ChatGPT and Google query straight up like that.