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Koby Conrad 🌻

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Koby Conrad 🌻

@kobyjconrad

CEO & Founder @SunflowerSober 🐝 YC F25 / SR004 the Sobriety Platform for the future of Superintelligence. Ex Growth @Rupa_Health, angel investor (50+).

San Francisco

Joined August 2019

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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Dec 1, 2025
Sunflower has now raised a total of $6.5M, with our most recent valuation being a $60M post 🥳 We stumbled upon magic, AI has the power to convince us to stop doing drugs & not kill ourselves We're going to create 1 trillion days sober, 1 day at a time 🌻
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Oct 29, 2025
Look I LOVE Robinhood But we have a gambling epidemic that is sweeping our nation & literally nobody is talking about it If you could see our user data you would be horrified Ppl are losing their entire life savings, their spouses are leaving them It’s not fun anymore 😕
Robinhood
@RobinhoodApp
Oct 28, 2025
Entertainment & Pop Culture contracts are here. Trade predictions on who will be the most searched person on Google, drop an album, win a dance competition, or gain the most new followers.
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Nov 9, 2025
i turned 32 today 🌻 - gf wayyy out of my league - company just hit $1M run-rate - raised $4M - 51% "very disappointed" superhuman PMF score - signed SF HQ - team of 15 ppl plz forgive my birthday twitter flex, i had none of this last year
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Oct 11, 2025
The amount of people judging me for building Sunflower is insane “What qualifications do you have to do this?” 👀 Idk man, but I’m doing it
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
Oct 11, 2025
People will say you’re unqualified. They’ll call what you’re doing inappropriate. That’s when you know you’re on the right track. Paul Graham on building from the margins:
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Nov 9, 2025
YC F25 is absolutely insane 👀 To put this in perspective, when I went through YC in S19 I had one investor that sent me an email "Hey can I put in $10k? no meeting needed" This time around ... we already have $350k in "no meeting" SAFEs Haven't even taken a single call yet
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Aug 30, 2024
Pre seed investing is primarily “can these founders build a product” Seed is “can they grow it” Series A is “can they build leadership” Series B is “unit economics” The best investors deeply understand the bet they are making The worst ask for FP&A at the pre seed 👀
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Nov 4, 2024
Life update #3: I’ve quit my job (again) to go create my own startup 🚀 With the Rupa acquisition I walked away with a life changing sum of 💰 & a number of VCs willing to take a bet on me We raised $350k so far 🌻 & will use this cash to build the #1 product for Addiction: 🧵
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Jun 7, 2025
I'm a "non-technical", solo founder, who raised a $1.375M pre-seed before having a product. I constantly get asked exactly how I pulled this off (hint: it was really f'ing hard). 👀 Here's the tweet thread: 🧵
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Oct 1, 2025
REALLY excited to announce Sunflower has raised over $3.88M now from @flybridge @ycombinator @speedrun. 🌻 We're going to use this $$ to build the #1 product for the 1.2 billion humans that struggle with addiction. We'll raise more at YC DD in Dec. Back to building now. 🫡
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Aug 7, 2024
After my YC company failed I went on to become the Head of Growth for Rupa Health (Would NOT have landed that job otherwise, trust me) … and proceeded to make “retire me” amounts of equity Merrill has literally no idea what he’s talking about
Merrill Lutsky
@MerrillLutsky
Aug 6, 2024
Replying to @ctjlewis
Counterpoint: the value of YC is disproportionately realized by the top 5-10 companies in each batch. Don't apply unless you are going to be one of those companies.
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Jul 16, 2024
My little brother raised a $12M round led back Jack Altman. 🥹 @sfcompute is going to be absolutely massive. I invested in this superrrr early, and it was a choice between “once in a lifetime trip to Egypt” or “little brother’s seed stage startup.” Made the right call 🫡
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Sep 25, 2025
Today’s kickoff day for YC F25, so feels like a good time to announce Sunflower is in F25 🫡 Stay tuned for our full launch of the fully verticalized platform for addiction We are going to build the most effective addiction protocol humanity has ever made 🌻
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Jun 24, 2023
I went through YC with my brother as Quirk, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on your phone. We did NOT have PMF, something like 98% user usage churn. 🫣 But damn.. just talked to a guy “Quirk literally saved my life” & now I can’t stop thinking about that 2%.
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Koby Conrad 🌻
@kobyjconrad
Jan 2, 2025
Life Update #4: Our startup just got accepted into A16Z Speedrun, which puts our combined pre-seed raise at $1.15M. It also means i'll be back in SF on Saturday. 😂 Growth is up 300% month-over-month, we have top 1% user Retention. Time to show 2025 what we're made of. 🔥
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