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Coffee with One 🇺🇸

@coffeewithone

co-founder @octolane (YC W24) - Self-Driving AI CRM | first intern @mintlify | dropped out of @DukeU to build

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Joined June 2021

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@coffeewithone
May 27
Octolane started by watching my mom. Single mom. Four sons. Seven days a week. No CRM. But she remembered every customer and every promise. I was Mintlify's first intern working in SF. One day I looked at the Salesforce tower and thought: my mom didn't need a CRM. What if
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@coffeewithone
Nov 4, 2025
I'm 24, dropped out of Duke, joined YC, and bet everything on a startup. Here's what actually happens when you go all-in: 1. Your co-founder relationship matters more than your product: You can pivot products. You can't pivot people. Most startups die from founder breakups, not
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@coffeewithone
Oct 11, 2025
high agency is the most important quality you'll ever look for in people. It's the difference between someone who sees a locked door and walks away, versus someone who finds the key, picks the lock, or builds a new door. Here's what I've learned about high agency and why it
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@jaltma
Oct 11, 2025
High agency is believing you can learn new things and work hard to solve tough problems no matter how complicated. Low agency is sitting around making fun of people who try.
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@coffeewithone
Jan 29, 2024
Day 47 at SF - building @octolane_app Not many know this, but after I dropped out of Duke, I received an email from the visa office telling me I had just 15 days to leave the U.S. or face serious consequences. I thought I was supposed to get a 60-days grace period, but
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@coffeewithone
Nov 1, 2025
Yes, your $2M seed round disappears faster here. Yes, you’ll pay $4,000/month for a studio. But you know what’s more expensive? Being in a place where nobody understands what you’re building. Where “thinking big” means opening a second location. Where your ambitious idea is met
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@coffeewithone
Jan 8, 2024
ByeByeCarta.com Thanks to the original inspiration to @steventey it's happening! 🙏 Open Source Cap Table Manager - powered by Octolane AI CRM! - Do whatever you want with the source code - 100% free to self host - no need for commercial license - 1111 likes we
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@coffeewithone
Dec 29, 2024
I am a first generation immigrant and Gen Z. Not many people know this, but after I dropped out of Duke (F1 visa), I received an email from the visa office telling me I had just 15 days to leave the U.S. or face serious consequences. I thought I was supposed to get a 60-day
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@elonmusk
Dec 28, 2024
America rose to greatness over the past 150 years, because it was a meritocracy more than anywhere else on Earth. I will fight to my last drop of blood to ensure that it remains that land of freedom and opportunity. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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@coffeewithone
Oct 24, 2025
We built a CRM that works like texting your co-founder. Natural language. No dropdowns. Revolutionary, right? Turns out, AI UX comes with a problem we didn't see coming... we have one week before launch day. we said we'd wait 72 hours before sharing anything. It's been less
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@coffeewithone
Dec 17, 2023
I came to Duke from San Francisco, just for a brief two days, to appear for my final exams as a junior. But then last night I finished reading how Google DeepMind researchers have elegantly solved what was deemed an unsolvable math problem using LLM. Now I am leaving Durham
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@coffeewithone
Mar 24, 2024
Every other CRM on the market previously built a system of records, that changes now. We are building a system of actions thanks to AI. Octolane is building AI-first Salesforce. Our software does a lot more than just store customer data. It uses AI to find the best customers,
Jack Altman
@jaltma
Mar 23, 2024
Jotted some thoughts about how AI opens up new killer app possibilities which can be wedges to systems of record
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@coffeewithone
Jan 12, 2024
Open Source Carta Alternative with Cap Table management - GitHub source code! Check us out on HN: dub.sh/byebyecarta Thank you @peer_rich for inspiring start open source project and and the repo inspired by @steventey Proudly built with @shadcn @nextjs and thank you
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@coffeewithone
May 28, 2025
I miss my mom so much right now. I wish she were here to see everything I’m going through, and what our team is building through it all. When I was little, she’d quietly cut fruit and place it by my study desk without saying a word. Then she’d leave, just so I could keep
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@coffeewithone
Apr 6, 2025
No one cares. Get up. Work harder. Go again. (My wallpaper right now)
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@coffeewithone
Apr 6, 2025
I think the risk isn't making tools too easy, it's making them produce outputs users don't value enough. Research on the IKEA effect shows people value products they partially created themselves. it has been demonstrated that participants valued their self-assembled IKEA
Dhruv Bindra ⏳
@bindra_dhruv
Apr 6, 2025
Here’s my prediction on @lovable, @Replit, @boltdotnew, @v_computer and others in the“ideas to apps” space: Once they make it effortless to reliably spin out websites/apps in seconds, they will note massive churn Then, they’ll try to make it “harder” to build projects
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