co-founder @ListenLabs, https://nitter.cf/t.co/5ImQPAoyCD
SF
Joined June 2010
- Tweets1.6K
- Following880
- Followers12.8K
- Likes4.4K
Introducing Listen Twins.
1:1 digital twins of real people, each built from an in-depth interview.
Ask them anything and 100+ twins answer in seconds.
Evaluated against real respondents, Twins achieve 93% distribution accuracy.
When a Twin isn't confident in an answer, it says "I don't know."
I grew up reading about Asimov's psychohistory: machines that predict what people will do.
It's starting to actually exist.
I use Twins every day to see how buyers will react to a launch or a price, and it gets it right most of the time.
listenlabs.ai/twins
We finally got listenlabs.com
The owner had used it since the 90s for his music label, which was also called Listen Labs. He said no when I first asked in 2024.
I kept texting him for two years and offered him equity. He stopped replying for 18 months.
Then I found out he had officiated a friend's wedding. My friend introduced us, and he said yes.
When we were starting out in Sweden, Lonis was the guy you went to when you wanted to know what was actually going on.
Hardware is getting its Cursor moment.
Flow has raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Antonio Gracias (Valor) and Gavin Baker (Atreides) with Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha (SpaceX, Block), and more.
When I became a mechanical engineer, I wanted to invent. In reality, 90% of the day to day execution work (CAD, excel, sim) was digital manual labour. That’s about to flip. The engineer’s role will change more profoundly than at any point since the invention of CAD, with humans focusing on invention, architecture, tradeoffs and judgement calls, and agents taking the grunt work.
Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, Rivian & many more - Flow is now the default platform for requirements and verification for frontier hardware teams. But it’s not just next-gen anymore. Industry giants including General Motors PPU and Volkswagen & Rivian’s joint venture (RV Tech) are reshaping their core development practices with Flow’s AI.
The revolution is just starting. Models are getting better quickly at CAD, analysis, simulation, and tool use. In the next year, AI will move from integrating the work to doing the work.
One day, this shift won't just enable us to iterate faster, it will enable us to design a class of products that we could not have dreamt of before.
We’re hiring.
Listen Labs is joining @Salesforce!
A year and a half ago we launched Listen, an AI platform for understanding customers, and it’s been a crazy ride ever since.
Today, we work with some of the largest companies in the world, including Microsoft, Anthropic, and Sweetgreen.
What started as an AI interviewer is now a full platform for understanding customers. Listen finds the right people, interviews them, analyzes what they say, and even simulates how they'll behave.
Listen’s growth quickly accelerated and while we were raising our next round, we met @Benioff.
Marc is a hero of mine. I've taken countless ideas from Behind the Cloud and watched him framemog every AI CEO on the planet. We're honored to get framemogged next.
With Salesforce, we can bring Listen to every company in the world, much faster.
To our customers, our mission remains the same.I stay CEO, @Florian stays CTO and the same team will keep building the product you rely on, now inside Salesforce AI Labs. Thank you for believing in us early.
To our team, families, and everyone who believed in us before there was much to believe in, thank you.
These years have been the most fun years of my life, and it’s still only just the beginning for Listen.
Now back to work. 🚀
Sweden’s best founders should leave Sweden.
At least for a week.
We started Velocity Fellows so 10 young Swedes can spend a week in SF on us.
In 2023, we took Max from Legora to meet Arvid at Cursor. Cursor had 10 people. Legora had 2.
Apply to get a picture like this!
Today is the last day to apply!
velocityfellows.com/
There's a domain I've chased for years.
Hired domain hunters. Tried ChatGPT. Tried Claude.
Nothing.
Sent it to Grok Bot: it read the code and auth flow, triaged 50 sites, found the owner in seconds.
Owner turns out to be a billionaire. Wish me luck.
Alfred Wahlforss retweeted
I honestly don’t think frequency of sending investor updates matters much for the success of any company
founders: only send investor updates when you're winning.
Listen has sent 3 in its history. All fundraise announcements.
Nobody reads a bad update and helps. They just mark you as dying.
Energy has become my daily driver. Remarkable product.
3 months ago i resigned from @OpenAI. today we are launching Energy
everyone will soon use AI for all work on their computers, but very few do today even though AI is good enough
our users do days of work in hours. we'll onboard the world to working with ai