Holy moly @airtable is acquiring @AirplaneDev ๐
Really interesting discourse on Hacker News rn w/ a lot of users & even @retool CEO chiming in
@dvdhsu brings up important points on building products customers want. The recent hype cycle had many cos over hiring ahead of PMF
Daniel Chesley
2,745 posts
investing early @work_bench
Joined September 2015
- Putting together a weekly NYC tech basketball game for enterprise founders, operators, and VCs Spread the word and message me if you ball ๐
- 1/ Today @retool dropped their State of AI report and shared some interesting learnings regarding the market, in-demand tools & services, and much much more I aggregated the most important graphics you need to know about
- What are people's thoughts on a Settlers of Catan tournament for NYC-based founders, operators, and investors? Who's in?
- I love reading @morganhousel from @collabfund. He has a way with words and it rocks! I especially liked the few paragraphs about aspirations collaborativefund.com/blog/death-taxโฆ
- Pumped to share that I've been promoted to Principal @Work_Bench Proud to work alongside @fendien @jerseejess @kelleymak @psomrah & our Work-Bench founders every day Excited to continue funding the best founders in AI/ML, Dev Tools, and Enterprise SaaS. More to come in 2024 ๐Please join us in congratulating 3 Work-Bench team members on their promotions ๐ช ๐ฅณ @kelleymak to General Partner @psomrah to Principal @DanielChesley to Principal Read more about how each is uniquely approaching 2024: work-bench.com/post/work-bencโฆ
- Last nightโs NYC AI happy hour was ๐ฅ @nathanbenaich and I brought together NYCs top AI researchers, engineers, and founders from @AnthropicAI, @baseten, @perplexity_ai, @Replit, and more for an awesome time DM us to join the next one ๐
- I've been hosting dinners for Product + Engineering Leaders & I'm so impressed with the talent density here in NYC ๐ We had folks from Modal, Merge, Airplane, Cockroach, Astronomer, Palantir, MongoDB, Abridge, Figma, Hightouch, Instabase + more ๐ฅ DM me to join the next one ๐
- Legit got this @merge_api bag last night and 2 people already stopped to ask if I worked at the company and itโs only 7:45 AM
- Iโd like to thank Meek Mill, Swedish House Mafia, and The White Lotus theme song for getting me through my first half marathon ๐
- Pumped for our NYC AI Rooftop Happy Hour with @nathanbenaich @airstreet on May 14th Who's coming? โก๏ธ AI Researchers @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, etc โก๏ธ AI Founders @runhouse_, @mixpeek, etc โก๏ธ AI Operators @replicate, @tryramp, etc Sign up to hang ๐ lu.ma/NYCxAI
- Replying to @NoraKAliGot it once when I was in a rush and it's not worth it: - Clear is a 1-year subscription for $180. - TSA Precheck is $80 for 5 years Clear is also less reliable than TSA as Clear is not in every airport












