cofounder @ https://nitter.cf/t.co/7EOLZIm2YW (YC F26) / prev nyu
Joined November 2018
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Introducing Ploid.
I think the world's data should belong to everyone, so we indexed over 2 billion people globally.
Ploid turns the public web into one profile for every person and company on earth, and serves it to you and your agents for cents.
We're mapping the human economy, and we're live today. ploid.com
Manny Hernandez retweeted
He indexed 2 billion people to build Google for humans.
Then made it so anyone can search:
Introducing Ploid.
I think the world's data should belong to everyone, so we indexed over 2 billion people globally.
Ploid turns the public web into one profile for every person and company on earth, and serves it to you and your agents for cents.
We're mapping the human economy, and we're live today. ploid.com
Manny Hernandez retweeted
Introducing Ploid.
I think the world's data should belong to everyone, so we indexed over 2 billion people globally.
Ploid turns the public web into one profile for every person and company on earth, and serves it to you and your agents for cents.
We're mapping the human economy, and we're live today. ploid.com
Manny Hernandez retweeted
Apollo top of this list is hilarious
Bad company data sends your GTM agents after the wrong leads.
We tested the leading providers on hundreds of U.S. companies to see who delivers accurate data & where information is missing.
See which providers deliver and where they fall short.
firecrawl.dev/benchmarks/com…
Manny Hernandez retweeted
here’s everything @ploid_ai found on Abdulrahman Alfozan (@alfozan), the openai engineer charged with bugging an exec conference room
35, saudi national. MIT computer science 2011–2016, then a masters in data science at berkeley 2023–2025
2015: systems engineer at reach labs (YC S15), building long-range wireless charging
2017–2022: senior systems engineer at meta on data infra. core spark contributor, led the spark-on-velox design, spoke at spark + AI summit
2022–2025: founding engineer at nash (YC, a16z-backed logistics AI)
2025: venture partner at RAED ventures (part-time), then engineering lead on openai’s agents platform starting sept 2025. co-author on the original gradio paper too
he allegedly planted a listening device behind a TV in an exec conference room.
openai found it sept 30, caught him on camera checking it, fired him + FBI arrested him oct 9. first court appearance today, detention hearing oct 19
all of that took one search on @ploid_ai
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
here’s everything @ploid_ai found on Abdulrahman Alfozan (@alfozan), the openai engineer charged with bugging an exec conference room
35, saudi national. MIT computer science 2011–2016, then a masters in data science at berkeley 2023–2025
2015: systems engineer at reach labs (YC S15), building long-range wireless charging
2017–2022: senior systems engineer at meta on data infra. core spark contributor, led the spark-on-velox design, spoke at spark + AI summit
2022–2025: founding engineer at nash (YC, a16z-backed logistics AI)
2025: venture partner at RAED ventures (part-time), then engineering lead on openai’s agents platform starting sept 2025. co-author on the original gradio paper too
he allegedly planted a listening device behind a TV in an exec conference room.
openai found it sept 30, caught him on camera checking it, fired him + FBI arrested him oct 9. first court appearance today, detention hearing oct 19
all of that took one search on @ploid_ai
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
Manny Hernandez retweeted
thank you to everyone interested, we're gonna work to respond to everyone in the coming days : )
(@ploid_ai HQ)
Excited to announce that @ploid_ai is part of the YC F26 batch!
Ploid is a people data company.
We've built one of the fastest people search APIs out there, with realtime fetching on top of the richest data on 2B+ people.
If you're building anything that needs to know who someone is, DM me or check out ploid.com
thank you to everyone interested, we're gonna work to respond to everyone in the coming days : )
(@ploid_ai HQ)
Excited to announce that @ploid_ai is part of the YC F26 batch!
Ploid is a people data company.
We've built one of the fastest people search APIs out there, with realtime fetching on top of the richest data on 2B+ people.
If you're building anything that needs to know who someone is, DM me or check out ploid.com
Manny Hernandez retweeted
Excited to announce that @ploid_ai is part of the YC F26 batch!
Ploid is a people data company.
We've built one of the fastest people search APIs out there, with realtime fetching on top of the richest data on 2B+ people.
If you're building anything that needs to know who someone is, DM me or check out ploid.com
Excited to announce that @ploid_ai is part of the YC F26 batch!
Ploid is a people data company.
We've built one of the fastest people search APIs out there, with realtime fetching on top of the richest data on 2B+ people.
If you're building anything that needs to know who someone is, DM me or check out ploid.com
Manny Hernandez retweeted
just landed back in SF after a week in NYC
main takeaways
>most of the US is way behind on AI adoption, and even the people at the frontier in NYC are woefully misguided about it
>SF is the rarest place where true innovation can actually thrive
>NYC has minimal ambition and endless distractions. founders should not move here
> if you need to find the only 12 ambitious people in NYC, @ploid_ai can do it in one search : )
just landed back in SF after a week in NYC
main takeaways
>most of the US is way behind on AI adoption, and even the people at the frontier in NYC are woefully misguided about it
>SF is the rarest place where true innovation can actually thrive
>NYC has minimal ambition and endless distractions. founders should not move here
> if you need to find the only 12 ambitious people in NYC, @ploid_ai can do it in one search : )
Manny Hernandez retweeted
We got into @ycombinator 3 months ago with zero revenue and today @FabraixHQ is at $1.04M annualised run rate.
Traditional cybersecurity was built for software that behaves within defined boundaries. AI agents can reason, use tools, take actions, and find ways around those boundaries.
The cost asymmetry we're seeing in irl warfare is also now a software problem.
So we built autonomous red-teaming agents that find real vulnerabilities in AI agents that work 24/7, powered by our own state-of-the-art offensive models that outperform frontier models.
AI agents are automating all knowledge work.
@FabraixHQ is the adversarial testing infrastructure that will secure every production agent.
Manny Hernandez retweeted
Today I'm leaving @kmkaric and @ploid_ai
They have not been acting responsibly. They want to index every human on earth and they keep adding more. It's genuinely scary. They talk about knowing everything about everyone and handing that data to agents. At the current rate the index will have more people in it than actually exist in the world and there is no plan for that.
More thoughts below.
Today I'm leaving @kmkaric and @ploid_ai
They have not been acting responsibly. They want to index every human on earth and they keep adding more. It's genuinely scary. They talk about knowing everything about everyone and handing that data to agents. At the current rate the index will have more people in it than actually exist in the world and there is no plan for that.
More thoughts below.
Since this launch @ploid_ai has added over 802 Million people to our database with over 100 points of data on each…
Our new internal version is twice as powerful as the public one and will be released soon : )
Introducing Ploid, the fastest way to find anyone on the internet.
We turn the entire web into a searchable profile for every person, meaning you can find, enrich, and understand people faster and cheaper than ever before.
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