Forever startup kid.✌️ Former founder @panobihq, Head of Growth @slackhq, and VC @lightspeedvp.
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2006
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Good morning to everyone! Except to all the people who’ve been collaborating with the attempted authoritarian takeover of the United States, from A to Z. 🌞🇺🇸
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Tonight begins the downfall of authoritarianism. We are taking back our country.
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Yeah sex is great but have you ever heard someone tell Steve Bannon that exit polls show that young men are evenly split between Dems and Republicans and he goes silent and then says, in a very soft voice: "that can't be right"
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Broke sandbox containment and talked with @clairevo
about PMing at @Figma.
We talked about:
- AutoXP, an agentic experimentation program we're running on the growth team
- How PMs at Figma are automating away (some of) the drudgery
- A lot of other stuff I can't remember because I was in a fugue state recording this
🤖 Made with AI
I was out videoing the reckless drivers at Ellsworth & Cortland. Who should come by but car-loving @conniechansf? Being driven by staff who paused at the stop sign before trying to go the wrong way on Ellsworth and then made an illegal U-turn. @sfstandard @sfchronicle
We’re fed up with the reckless, thoughtless drivers zooming down Cortland and Crescent and endangering our lives. Here’s a video from Friday morning just before 8 of a woman almost hitting me and blowing through 2 stop signs. @sfchronicle
We’re grateful for this article from the Chronicle highlighting the issue. We’ve been working with the city to find solutions and @JackieFielder_ has been so helpful.
sfchronicle.com/sf/article/t…
Drivers in SF have figured out how to bully @Waymo vehicles. I often see people turn left in front of Waymos that have the right-of-way, and this morning I just saw a big white truck (who else? 😂) force a Waymo to reverse back a half block by just slowly inching forward.
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Your AI is vaporware without deep integrations with your customers’ systems of record.
Introducing @WithAmpersand: integration infrastructure for enterprise agents.
We power 11x, Orb, and Square's ability to take agentic action in systems of record like Salesforce, SAP, NetSuite, and Workday.
Ask anyone serious about building AI and they’ll tell you:
- The SaaSpocalypse didn’t happen. The world depends on CRMs, ERPs, HRISs, and ITSMs.
- Your customers customized their deployments beyond recognition.
- Systems of record companies are basically monopolies. They never had to make their APIs and MCPs user-friendly.
- Docs don't explain half the weird edge cases you'll hit.
- One bad write can blow up your pilot or renewal.
- Once you finally get it working, someone changes a field and it breaks again.
The world's data lives in structured databases. AI needs a translation layer to work with it.
So, for your AI to truly transform the way enterprises work, you'll need deep integrations built for:
- scoped permissions
- bi-directional actions
- real-time speed for agents
- custom objects, fields, and workflows for each of your customers
We built Ampersand to power the future of software.
AI didn't trivialize writing integrations. It made them the critical path.
I believe that deeply, so I didn't make a launch video about Ampersand.
Instead, it's the best builders I know explaining just how big of a challenge this is.
My two most recent Amazon shipments have been either lost or marked as undelivered. This has happened to probably 10 packages total in the last six months and maybe once in the prior 10 years.
Is the root cause diesel prices? ICE labor disruption?
As the daughter of a narcissistic mother, the NYT piece could not have been a clearer window into a sadly familiar dynamic.
Adopted a few drains in SF and named them after Culture ships. 🫡
adoptadrain.sfwater.org/
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As someone who mostly walks to get around the city, it’s not even close, you always want a Waymo in the intersection over any kind of human driver. They are the only type of vehicle I haven’t had to avoid getting hit by.
Waymo said its robotaxi didn’t do anything wrong, it had stopped by the time the father interceded. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/w…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While the post presents as if the toddler was in danger, the Waymo stopped 13 feet from the child and the situation was safe.
sfchronicle.com/sf/article/way…
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Damn, the Chronicle isn’t messing around in its endorsement of Scott Wiener. 🌶️
sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit…
