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Announcing that Willow has raised $4.2 million to build voice-first interfaces. We started Willow after dropping out of Stanford freshman year to build a healthcare startup. It failed. We pivoted over 10 times, spent a year in the trenches, and learned how to build the hard way. But we discovered something huge. Voice scribes were giving doctors their lives back. They were able to focus on helping patients rather than wasting nights and weekends on paperwork. That's when it hit us. If voice could transform healthcare, why not every knowledge worker? Why are a billion professionals still hammering away at keyboards to communicate with humans (email, Slack, writing) and AI (ChatGPT, Cursor)? Today, thousands of professionals at companies like Canva, GitHub, and Webflow use Willow to work 5x faster. We're building Willow to unlock voice as the universal interface where you can control any device, any app, any workflow simply by speaking. – This $4.2M round was led by Boxgroup, with participation from Goodwater Capital, Burst Capital, and Liquid 2 Ventures. We’re also backed by an Avengers-level group of investors, including: Max Mullen (Founder, Instacart) (COO, Shopify) dharmesh (CTO/Founder, HubSpot) Tomer London (CPO/Founder, Gusto) Geoff Donaker (COO, Yelp) Ankur Nagpal (Founder, Teachable) Steven (CEO/Founder, Moov) Daniel Cahn (CEO/Founder, Slingshot AI) John Andrew Entwistle (CEO/Founder, Wander) Mercedes Bent (Venture Partner, Lightspeed J.J. Fliegelman (CTO/Founder, Wayup) Special thanks to our earliest believers: Adam Guild (CEO/Founder, Owner), Cory Levy (Founder, ZFellows), and Nicolas Dessaigne (Partner, YC). And most importantly, thank you to the best co-founder and CTO Lawrence Liu. – We're hiring for founding engineer, designer, and ML roles who want to redefine how humans work. Join a world-class team building technology that transforms lives daily with top-tier compensation and equity. Comment "Join Willow" to be fast-tracked. The next decade will be defined by voice-first computing. The question isn't whether this transformation will happen. It's whether you'll be part of building it.

Announcing that Willow has raised $4.2 million to build voice-first interfaces. We started Willow after dropping out of Stanford freshman year to build a healthcare startup. It failed. We pivoted over 10 times, spent a year in the trenches, and learned how to build the hard way. But we discovered something huge. Voice scribes were giving doctors their lives back. They were able to focus on helping patients rather than wasting nights and weekends on paperwork. That's when it hit us. If voice could transform healthcare, why not every knowledge worker? Why are a billion professionals still hammering away at keyboards to communicate with humans (email, Slack, writing) and AI (ChatGPT, Cursor)? Today, thousands of professionals at companies like Canva, GitHub, and Webflow use Willow to work 5x faster. We're building Willow to unlock voice as the universal interface where you can control any device, any app, any workflow simply by speaking. – This $4.2M round was led by Boxgroup, with participation from Goodwater Capital, Burst Capital, and Liquid 2 Ventures. We’re also backed by an Avengers-level group of investors, including: Max Mullen (Founder, Instacart) (COO, Shopify) dharmesh (CTO/Founder, HubSpot) Tomer London (CPO/Founder, Gusto) Geoff Donaker (COO, Yelp) Ankur Nagpal (Founder, Teachable) Steven (CEO/Founder, Moov) Daniel Cahn (CEO/Founder, Slingshot AI) John Andrew Entwistle (CEO/Founder, Wander) Mercedes Bent (Venture Partner, Lightspeed J.J. Fliegelman (CTO/Founder, Wayup) Special thanks to our earliest believers: Adam Guild (CEO/Founder, Owner), Cory Levy (Founder, ZFellows), and Nicolas Dessaigne (Partner, YC). And most importantly, thank you to the best co-founder and CTO Lawrence Liu. – We're hiring for founding engineer, designer, and ML roles who want to redefine how humans work. Join a world-class team building technology that transforms lives daily with top-tier compensation and equity. Comment "Join Willow" to be fast-tracked. The next decade will be defined by voice-first computing. The question isn't whether this transformation will happen. It's whether you'll be part of building it.

Allan Guo

499,559 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Caller: We're doing our taxes and last year we had $316,000 in capital losses. We were told that we could only deduct $3,000 a year on our taxes, but I did the math and that would take 115 years Dave Ramsey: So it sounds like the type of losses that you have is what's causing the write-off—the inability to write them off, because you don't have any income that is of similar sources to the losses. Caller: Right. Dave Ramsey: It sounds like you need short-term income on investments, not long-term capital gains on investments to offset this. What was this from? What's the loss from? Caller: from trading. From doing trades. Dave Ramsey: Jesus. What is your household income? Caller: For last year, it was only, $38,000. This year it's going up. My husband got a new job starting at $50,000 plus. Dave Ramsey: Where did you have $300,000 that you could lose? Caller: We had it in an inherited IRA. I was having problems with my pregnancy, so he started working from home trading because he was doing it and doing well. Dave Ramsey: Here's the problem. If we get too nitcy and nuanced and technical in order to get some benefit from this write-off, but it exposes him to the very beast that just about killed him the first time, I don't like that. So your husband being anywhere near a brokerage account sounds like suicide to me. I don't know in your household how you're going to create gains on investments to offset losses on investments to get the benefit of this that is substantial. I don't know how to do that. What I would do if I were in your shoes... but before I put your family at further risk playing with the same snakes that already bit you, I would just say, "Screw it, forget it, it's just gone."

Caller: We're doing our taxes and last year we had $316,000 in capital losses. We were told that we could only deduct $3,000 a year on our taxes, but I did the math and that would take 115 years Dave Ramsey: So it sounds like the type of losses that you have is what's causing the write-off—the inability to write them off, because you don't have any income that is of similar sources to the losses. Caller: Right. Dave Ramsey: It sounds like you need short-term income on investments, not long-term capital gains on investments to offset this. What was this from? What's the loss from? Caller: from trading. From doing trades. Dave Ramsey: Jesus. What is your household income? Caller: For last year, it was only, $38,000. This year it's going up. My husband got a new job starting at $50,000 plus. Dave Ramsey: Where did you have $300,000 that you could lose? Caller: We had it in an inherited IRA. I was having problems with my pregnancy, so he started working from home trading because he was doing it and doing well. Dave Ramsey: Here's the problem. If we get too nitcy and nuanced and technical in order to get some benefit from this write-off, but it exposes him to the very beast that just about killed him the first time, I don't like that. So your husband being anywhere near a brokerage account sounds like suicide to me. I don't know in your household how you're going to create gains on investments to offset losses on investments to get the benefit of this that is substantial. I don't know how to do that. What I would do if I were in your shoes... but before I put your family at further risk playing with the same snakes that already bit you, I would just say, "Screw it, forget it, it's just gone."

Traeyz ♠️

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if you ever feel like you're behind in life, our next guest is about to make that feeling a whole lot worse. Alby Churven is a 14-year-old founder and CMO of 10x, hailing from the land down under. we sat down with alby to talk about his journey, including the viral x video that earned him a yc interview, building alongside Evan Yadegari and Blake Anderson at 10x, and what it's like balancing startup life with 9th grade english finals. timestamps: 0:00 this founder is only 14 years old 1:17 how coding camps sparked his entrepreneurial journey 3:14 the viral video that got him a yc interview 5:21 growing up in australia's tiny tech scene 7:44 what it's like being a founder in high school 11:09 why he's focused on marketing, not coding 14:24 inside 10x apps: shopify for mobile apps 18:50 running a startup while studying for finals 27:24 will he skip college? advice for young founders

if you ever feel like you're behind in life, our next guest is about to make that feeling a whole lot worse. Alby Churven is a 14-year-old founder and CMO of 10x, hailing from the land down under. we sat down with alby to talk about his journey, including the viral x video that earned him a yc interview, building alongside Evan Yadegari and Blake Anderson at 10x, and what it's like balancing startup life with 9th grade english finals. timestamps: 0:00 this founder is only 14 years old 1:17 how coding camps sparked his entrepreneurial journey 3:14 the viral video that got him a yc interview 5:21 growing up in australia's tiny tech scene 7:44 what it's like being a founder in high school 11:09 why he's focused on marketing, not coding 14:24 inside 10x apps: shopify for mobile apps 18:50 running a startup while studying for finals 27:24 will he skip college? advice for young founders

The Cap Table

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