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From a year ago. I still think this is underemphasized by coding agent companies....
Peter Zakin
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Peter Zakin
@pzakin
Partner @upfrontvc investing in AI + dev tools. Sold Hyper Travel to @tradeshift. ex @venmo, @usemacro, YC S2010.
- This is somebody's work. Have some respect. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
- I am extremely bullish on consumer AI. I wrote a bit about how the most important consumer companies tend to cluster around a technical unlock -- 1994-1998, 2003-2007, 2008-2012 -- and what kinds of consumer opportunities I'm most interested in.
- there are a few founders I've passed on and have come to regret it and now i just keep liking their tweets as a bizarre form of vc penance.
- A somewhat obvious lesson of the last several years in startups: you just need to survive long enough to keep turning over new cards. E.g. Replit's narrative power far-outweighed their commercial traction for years... but nevermind that web IDE and unified infra ultimately never
- Someone please build: 1. Take a picture of my bookshelf, convert the titles into a spreadsheet. 2. Share that list with friends. 3. Let my friends nearby checkout books from my "library"
- humble request for someone to build a figma competitor that treats code as a first class citizen. still highly bullish on design-to-code automation as a space worth exploring for a startup.
- I’m very excited to be joining @upfrontvc as an investor focusing on dev tools and infrastructure. Thrilled to be working closely with @kevinyzhang @msuster @gimmedadeetz and supporting early stage founders building generational companies in the space. DMs are open!
- !! Excited to keep backing founders building radically great software in AI and dev tools. If that’s you, my DMs are open :)We’re excited to announce 3 well-deserved promotions here at Upfront! Please join us in congratulating @jdsisteron @kesarvarma @pzakin who have all been promoted to Partner 🎉
- Patterns of agent orchestration that I haven't yet seen productized: - Sampling: running multiple agents at the same task and choosing the preferred branch of work. - Actor-critic: supervisor agent that critiques agent output. AI code review is close to this but mostly
- Very excited to share @usemacro with the world today! Our mission is to change the way that teams handle their recurring work by giving process-builders a dedicated tool to build and manage processes.
- My articulation of this is that enterprise software is process manifest as product.Installing software is installing an idea.
- Random things I nearly want to build: - AI reading app (could start with RSS, but intent long-term would be to power reading PDFs/e-books; probably podcasts at some point). - Use Exa to power modern stumbleupon - "Array": a product whose atomic unit is a list of URLs. - A
