Mitchell Troyanovsky (@mitch

Mitchell Troyanovsky

3,493 posts

Mitchell Troyanovsky

@mitch_troy

Building agents for accountants @trybasis (Hiring)

New York, USA

jobs.ashbyhq.com/basis-ai

Joined February 2017

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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Feb 24
Excited to announce this milestone. We are deploying long-horizon agents at scale that can do real work in the real economy. Our agents can already operate reliably for hours at a time and I expect that to be days by the end of the year. We can barely keep up with demand. If
Basis
@trybasis
Feb 24
We've raised $100m at a $1.15b valuation from @Accel, @GVteam, and existing investors to accelerate deployment of the most capable and accurate accounting agents across CAS, tax, audit, and advisory. Basis is used by 30% of the Top 25 accounting firms and dozens more across the
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
May 19, 2024
The Anti-Semitic undertones of Kendrick’s rap battle somehow do not get talked about. It’s literally called “not like us”, and Kenrick claims Drake is “not a colleague but a colonizer”. It’s the othering of Drake because he’s half Jewish.
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Aug 20, 2024
If Kamala wins, choosing Beyoncé’s freedom as her intro song should be looked back on as a stroke of genius. Sets the tone of the entire campaign
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Dec 21, 2024
If you're a non-technical background and want to work at a startup. just show up and say: "what is your biggest problem, if you hire me i'll solve it." Then do something to prove you can.
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Mar 10, 2025
We’re Hiring Agent Managers People who orchestrate workers are managers. People who orchestrate software are engineers. People who orchestrate general intelligence inside software are… not talked about enough. Welcome to the age of Agent Management. Management != Engineering
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Nov 16, 2025
This has been obvious for multiple years. (And is just basic business sense that predates AI) If you are where work is done, you become very valuable. If you’re a thing people can just choose to use sometimes, you will lose. Engineering is done IN cursor.
Chris Paxton
@chris_j_paxton
Nov 15, 2025
Interesting how cursor has managed to stick the landing (so far) but everyone seems to agree perplexity is doomed
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Jan 4, 2024
Some people treat the Manhattan -> Williamsburg move like you're going to LA or something
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Feb 27, 2022
Replying to @nikitabier
Salad that has shrimps with the shell still on
Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Dec 17, 2024
Excited to announce this step in the journey As I tell every candidate, the team will scale fast, the amount of responsibility at the company will scale faster If you want to come join for the most intense and fast paced couple years of your life send me a note
Basis
@trybasis
Dec 17, 2024
We’ve raised $34m to accelerate our goal of equipping every accountant with a team of AI agents. Led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures with Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross and continued participation from Better Tomorrow Ventures, BoxGroup, and Avid Ventures. Excited to also
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Oct 18, 2023
1/ After months of stealth, excited to unveil @trybasis, the AI platform for accounting firms With our 3.6m in seed funding led by @btv_vc alongside @BoxGroup, @AvidVc, several top accounting firms, and leaders from the accounting and machine learning communities.‍ 👇
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Apr 6, 2023
ChatGPT is amazing, but isn’t designed for accounting. Introducing: Intern by Basis - ChatGPT but for accounting & tax.
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Apr 16, 2024
Having coffee chats in the flatiron devocion requires CIA level awareness of who is an earshot
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Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
Jun 29, 2021
Replying to @theallinpod and @Jason
Jason responding to himself through the pod account
Mitchell Troyanovsky
@mitch_troy
May 25, 2025
If you used to work at an NYC tech company and want free 10k: Just DM me a note with top 5 people you've worked with in eng/product. No intro needed. just 5 names and if we hire any of them in the next 12 months I will pay you 10k. You don't need to do any work.
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