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Tim Porter retweeted
19 Nov 2025
Today I'm excited to announce that we are launching @hyperparamapp, an AI-powered Swiss Army knife for massive LLM datasets. It lets you view, score, filter, label, and transform LLM data directly in the browser. I started Hyperparam one year ago because I knew that the world of data was changing, and existing tools like Python and Jupyter Notebooks were not built for the scale of LLM data. The weights of LLMs may be tensors, but the input and output of LLMs are massive piles of text. The training set of LLMs is a large corpus of text from various sources, meticulously cleaned and preprocessed. The output of LLMs is also text, and it’s being produced in even greater quantities than the training data. No human has the patience to sift through all that text, so we need better tools to help us understand and analyze it. That's why I built Hyperparam to be the first tool specifically designed for working with LLM data at scale. To accomplish this required rethinking how data analysis tools work. I started Hyperparam as a side project and wanted to see if I could build it entirely in the browser. No Python, no servers, just pure interactive web experience. I'm pretty excited about how it turned out. Hyperparam is fast, powerful, and easy to use. It can handle datasets with millions of rows of text and provides a rich set of tools for exploring and analyzing that data using LLMs agents for assistance. Every company is now producing volumes of LLM data. Chat logs, agent traces, coding agent logs, and more. Hyperparam is designed to help you make sense of all that data. If you're working with LLM data (and let's be honest... every company is producing LLM data now), I encourage you to give Hyperparam a try. It’s free while in beta. 🚀
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Tim Porter retweeted
24 Apr 2025
We're excited to share that @RavennaHQ has raised $15M from @MadronaVentures @khoslaventures and @founderscoop to reimagine internal support for modern teams. 💪 🙏@adinatecklu @tmporter @aviel Read more on the Ravenna blog: ravenna.ai/blog/ravenna-rais…
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13 Feb 2025
Great insights from this conversation. Bhrighu’s journey from @Microsoft to @Highspot is a great example of how scaling, leadership, and AI innovation come together in a high-growth environment. Thx again Bhrighu - super fun!
A question many founders and startup leaders will inevitably face: Will your company keep innovating through tough times? In 2022 and 2023, as the economy shifted, many companies hit pause on innovation, cutting costs and waiting for the storm to pass. But some — like Highspot — took a different path. They doubled down on product innovation, betting on long-term growth even when the market made it tough. @Highspot President of Product & Engineering Bhrighu Sareen shares why the company chose not to follow the path of those that faltered during the Dot-com bust or financial crisis. Instead of simply riding it out, they made a deliberate choice to push forward. "We decided to just say, ‘No, we're going to make this transition,’ and now we're seeing the fruits of that investment decision paying off," he says. More from Bhrighu's journey from Big Tech to Startups in the full episode: youtu.be/E6NTomxtmYk?si=NxnO…
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12 Feb 2025
thanks for the great conversation Bhrighu! terrific insights on how you are scaling @highspot product and engineering, as well as life after @Microsoft
Madrona's @tmporter had a great conversation with @Highspot President of Product & Engineering Bhrighu Sareen about his journey from Microsoft to the startup, scaling AI-driven product teams, and navigating the challenges of startup leadership. Some key takeaways for founders and product leaders: 1) Transitioning from Big Tech to startup leadership requires agility. It’s all about speed, decision-making, and resourcefulness. 2) Working with founders is a partnership, not a power struggle. Bhrighu shared great insights on aligning with founders when stepping into a leadership role. 3) Economic slowdowns force trade-offs, but the best startups double down on product innovation 4) Scaling globally requires a smart approach to hiring and operations. Big thanks to Bhrighu for joining us in-studio. If you’re a product leader or thinking about jumping into a startup, this episode is packed with practical insights. YouTube: bit.ly/41doZG3 Spotify: spoti.fi/3CQiorF Apple: apple.co/41cV2Ww Amazon: amzn.to/4198ue2 Madrona (Transcript): bit.ly/3EBGJlC
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17 Jun 2024
Wow - incredible new release from @runwayml 🔥
17 Jun 2024
Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: Runway’s new base model for video generation. Gen-3 Alpha can create highly detailed videos with complex scene changes, a wide range of cinematic choices, and detailed art directions. runwayml.com/gen-3-alpha (1/10)
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Tim Porter retweeted
17 Jun 2024
Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: Runway’s new base model for video generation. Gen-3 Alpha can create highly detailed videos with complex scene changes, a wide range of cinematic choices, and detailed art directions. runwayml.com/gen-3-alpha (1/10)
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24 Jan 2024
Loved talking with @cmcluck … lots of great insights here for founders and cybersecurity customers!
🎙In the latest episode of Founded & Funded, @tmporter and @StackLokHQ's @cmcluck discuss developer-centric security, the importance of #opensource and security, and more🎧 bit.ly/3SttlnQ #SoftwareSupplyChainSecurity #Kubernetes
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Made for these moments. #USvsUS

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It is widely understood that revenue growth is crucial to the success of a #startup. But at what point should a startup be thinking about long-term #revenue growth and, in turn, hire a #ChiefRevenueOfficer? @LorenAlhadeff breaks it down here: bit.ly/45xQk51 #CRO
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Tim Porter retweeted
Hey OSS maintainer friends! We are looking connect and talk a little about your supply chain security requirements and practices. Please DM me if you are up for a discussion with @eryn_muetzel and myself. We will try to make it worth your while. :)
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24 Jun 2023
Exciting partnership between two amazing technical teams!
23 Jun 2023
Replying to @eigencloud
@eigencloud builds with Spice.xyz for high-performance, enterprise-grade blockchain data infrastructure across the Ethereum Mainnet and Goerli Testnet. 🧵Read on to learn more ↓
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Don't miss @tmporter's chat with @NumbersStnAI Founders @chamii22 and Chris Aberger. We are excited about the unique work Numbers Station is doing applying #FoundationModels to #datawrangling. 👂👉 bit.ly/3N3BxIT #ai #data #analytics #founders #dataanalytics
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23 May 2023
Terrific to see @WhyLabs integrated with @langchain to provide LLM observability
23 May 2023
🔍 Monitoring with @WhyLabs 🔎 As more LLM apps go into production, logging and observability will only become more and more important. @WhyLabs is a powerful monitoring platform, now integrated with 🦜🔗 thanks to jamie256's work. Docs: python.langchain.com/en/late…
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Tim Porter retweeted
18 May 2023
Let's build! 6/10 Seattle AI Hackathon, from @awscloud and @MadronaVentures, sponsored by @OpenAI, @pinecone, @weaviate_io, @statsigio, @getblueprintai. Prizes and early access to tech not publicly available. Judges incl @1vnzh @vijayeraji and @tnachen. Bring yourself or a team.
🚀 Join the AI Tinkerers Seattle Summer Hackathon on June 10th! Sponsored by @awscloud, @CohereAI, @MadronaVentures & supported by @OpenAI, @pinecone, @weaviate_io, @statsigio, @getblueprintai. Amazing prizes, networking, food & drinks await! 🏆🍻 🤖 Sign up & spread the word: seattle.tinkerer.ai/p/ai-tin… #AIHackathon #AISeattle
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Tim Porter retweeted
27 Apr 2023
Had a wonderful time at the AI for builders podcast where I talk about the need for Guardrails when building with LLMs! Huge shoutout to @jturow and @doppenhe for inviting me and some amazing speakers like @laurel_orr1 and @GrantSlatton
27 Apr 2023
Prompts are the way humans talk to LLMs, and they are also the "new APIs" for apps to set context, establish guardrails, inject data, and more. Fun chat with @ShreyaR, @Laurel_Orr1, @GrantSlatton, and @doppenhe. New AI For Builders now on Spotify and Amazon Music.
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22 Apr 2023
amazing.
How A.I/@runwayml is changing the film industry. Wonderful interview @mrjonfinger @NBCNews 👏
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19 Apr 2023
Go @GroundlightAI !! Excited for opportunity to invest and work with this team to bring easy, affordable and accurate computer vision to mainstream industrial developers and builders.
We are excited to announce our investment in @GroundlightAI, which empowers developers w/o data science experience to quickly build robust computer vision solutions for industrial applications. Thrilled to partner w/ @leopd & Avi Geiger on this venture. bit.ly/41l841U
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Numbers Station is bringing the power of foundation models to data analytics. Incredible team and amazing product. Super excited for @MadronaVentures to lead their Series A. @tmporter @jturow
20 Mar 2023
Numbers Station raises $17.5M to bring AI to your data stack tcrn.ch/3Jwenb7 by @fredericl
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