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33,277 views • 1 year ago

Jason Calacanis is pushing the boundary of what "hiring" looks like in 2026. Instead of just adding headcount, he’s deploying Open Claw (formerly Clawed Bot) to act as autonomous team members. The strategy is fascinating: they bought Mac Studios and set up 4 dedicated agents, even giving them their own SaaS accounts. While it technically increased their Slack and Notion spend—essentially adding 4 "digital employees"—the ROI is already showing. They’ve successfully offloaded 20–30% of human workloads to these agents, with a goal to migrate another 10–20% every single month. The kicker? He isn't using the "out-of-the-box" AI tools from Google or Slack. By using an open-source framework, these agents can bridge the gaps: pulling data from calendars, drafting emails, and syncing Notion docs all at once. This isn't just AI assistance; it's a full operational shift.

Jason Calacanis is pushing the boundary of what "hiring" looks like in 2026. Instead of just adding headcount, he’s deploying Open Claw (formerly Clawed Bot) to act as autonomous team members. The strategy is fascinating: they bought Mac Studios and set up 4 dedicated agents, even giving them their own SaaS accounts. While it technically increased their Slack and Notion spend—essentially adding 4 "digital employees"—the ROI is already showing. They’ve successfully offloaded 20–30% of human workloads to these agents, with a goal to migrate another 10–20% every single month. The kicker? He isn't using the "out-of-the-box" AI tools from Google or Slack. By using an open-source framework, these agents can bridge the gaps: pulling data from calendars, drafting emails, and syncing Notion docs all at once. This isn't just AI assistance; it's a full operational shift.

Ian Miles Cheong

58,859 views • 6 months ago

Ep #89: Lessons Scaling Zero to $40M ARR in Two Years The internet runs on free, open source software. But as its risen in popularity, its become the latest attack point targeted by hackers and nation states. This conversation with Dan Lorenc, Co-founder and CEO of Chainguard ⛓️ gets into the history of open source software, cloud computing, Linux, the software supply chain, how AI will impact it, and what the next big cyber attack will look like. Dan is an engineer, but he also loves sales and go-to-market. We unpack how Chainguard scaled from zero to 150 customers and a $40 million ARR in two years. Chainguard just announced a $350 million Series D led by Kleiner and IVP, and Dan unpacks the round, plus shares his secret methodology for valuing the company. A big thank you to Dan’s Co-founder Kim Lewandowski, Clay Fisher, Bogomil Balkansky, Andrew Reed, and Tom Loverro for their help brainstorming topics for Dan. And thanks to Numeral for supporting this episode. Full conversation here or link in the replies. Timestamps: 3:26 A safe source for open source 4:57 The software supply chain 7:19 Can you trust open source code with contributors in Russia? 9:43 Malware attack that almost took down the entire internet 12:40 What the next big cyber attack will look like 15:12 How will AI impact the software supply chain 17:53 The history of cloud computing 21:42 Why all cloud computing runs on Linux 23:16 How Linux + Linux distros work 29:28 Automating open source security 32:43 Chainguard roadmap: Libraries and VMs 36:40 Focusing on FedRAMP 42:44 Impact of DOGE 44:06 Zero to $40m ARR in two years 45:40 Learning to love sales as a technical founder 47:24 Lessons from Frank Slootman 51:15 How to create urgency in sales 53:16 How to build a sales team [50:16 you mentioned doing like, kind of like sales capacity planning] 58:23 Hiring Ryan Carlson from Wiz & Okta 1:01:45 Inside Chainguard’s $350m Series D 1:07:41 Vibe coding + Dan’s software stack 1:09:51 Cutting his hair in front of the entire company 1:10:27 Wearing a different suit to each board meeting 1:12:32 Bogomil, world’s best SDR

Ep #89: Lessons Scaling Zero to $40M ARR in Two Years The internet runs on free, open source software. But as its risen in popularity, its become the latest attack point targeted by hackers and nation states. This conversation with Dan Lorenc, Co-founder and CEO of Chainguard ⛓️ gets into the history of open source software, cloud computing, Linux, the software supply chain, how AI will impact it, and what the next big cyber attack will look like. Dan is an engineer, but he also loves sales and go-to-market. We unpack how Chainguard scaled from zero to 150 customers and a $40 million ARR in two years. Chainguard just announced a $350 million Series D led by Kleiner and IVP, and Dan unpacks the round, plus shares his secret methodology for valuing the company. A big thank you to Dan’s Co-founder Kim Lewandowski, Clay Fisher, Bogomil Balkansky, Andrew Reed, and Tom Loverro for their help brainstorming topics for Dan. And thanks to Numeral for supporting this episode. Full conversation here or link in the replies. Timestamps: 3:26 A safe source for open source 4:57 The software supply chain 7:19 Can you trust open source code with contributors in Russia? 9:43 Malware attack that almost took down the entire internet 12:40 What the next big cyber attack will look like 15:12 How will AI impact the software supply chain 17:53 The history of cloud computing 21:42 Why all cloud computing runs on Linux 23:16 How Linux + Linux distros work 29:28 Automating open source security 32:43 Chainguard roadmap: Libraries and VMs 36:40 Focusing on FedRAMP 42:44 Impact of DOGE 44:06 Zero to $40m ARR in two years 45:40 Learning to love sales as a technical founder 47:24 Lessons from Frank Slootman 51:15 How to create urgency in sales 53:16 How to build a sales team [50:16 you mentioned doing like, kind of like sales capacity planning] 58:23 Hiring Ryan Carlson from Wiz & Okta 1:01:45 Inside Chainguard’s $350m Series D 1:07:41 Vibe coding + Dan’s software stack 1:09:51 Cutting his hair in front of the entire company 1:10:27 Wearing a different suit to each board meeting 1:12:32 Bogomil, world’s best SDR

The Peel

10,673 views • 1 year ago

Introducing SuperDesign.Dev The first open-source Design Agent that lives inside Cursor, Windsurf, or any IDE: 👉 Instantly spin up 10 different design in parallel 👉 Explore, fork, and iterate 10x faster 👉 Create new or iterate on your existing UI — all fully local JackJack and I shipped this as a quick weekend experiment to validate a hunch: design is the killer use case for parallel agents. Currently at V0.005 — a simple customization of the Claude Code SDK + static HTML generation. (We might be the first product powered by the Anthropic Claude Code SDK!) More coming soon: web app, mobile app, SVG generation, and more. GitHub: Try it out: ----- Upvote on Hacker News ❤️:

Introducing SuperDesign.Dev The first open-source Design Agent that lives inside Cursor, Windsurf, or any IDE: 👉 Instantly spin up 10 different design in parallel 👉 Explore, fork, and iterate 10x faster 👉 Create new or iterate on your existing UI — all fully local JackJack and I shipped this as a quick weekend experiment to validate a hunch: design is the killer use case for parallel agents. Currently at V0.005 — a simple customization of the Claude Code SDK + static HTML generation. (We might be the first product powered by the Anthropic Claude Code SDK!) More coming soon: web app, mobile app, SVG generation, and more. GitHub: Try it out: ----- Upvote on Hacker News ❤️:

Jason Zhou

49,435 views • 1 year ago

In this episode, we’re diving deep into AI and crypto. To help us unpack it, we’re joined by Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) — co-founder of the crypto protocol NEAR Protocol and co-author of the groundbreaking 2017 “transformers” paper that kicked off the current AI boom. Ilia has been early to some of the biggest recent tech trends, and today he brings us a rare, panoramic view of the tech industry’s cutting edge. Together we explore what the phrase “user-owned AI” really means; why the so-called agentic internet — that is, a world where your AI assistant talks directly to services on your behalf — might replace the very notion of websites and apps as we know them; and much more. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:40 - Centralization and Challenges of AI 6:17 - “User-Owned” AI 12:14 - Confidential Computing and AI 17:51 - The Birth of Transformers 22:33 - NEAR AI and Crowdsourcing 27:56 - AI Agents and Future Applications 31:04 - The End of Websites and Applications 34:08 - Dead Internet Theory & Distinguishing Humans 41:49 - Open Source vs. Open Weight Models 43:48 - Geopolitical Implications of AI 46:55 - NEAR Protocol and Blockchain Scaling 59:29 - The Role of Humans in an AI World

In this episode, we’re diving deep into AI and crypto. To help us unpack it, we’re joined by Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) — co-founder of the crypto protocol NEAR Protocol and co-author of the groundbreaking 2017 “transformers” paper that kicked off the current AI boom. Ilia has been early to some of the biggest recent tech trends, and today he brings us a rare, panoramic view of the tech industry’s cutting edge. Together we explore what the phrase “user-owned AI” really means; why the so-called agentic internet — that is, a world where your AI assistant talks directly to services on your behalf — might replace the very notion of websites and apps as we know them; and much more. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:40 - Centralization and Challenges of AI 6:17 - “User-Owned” AI 12:14 - Confidential Computing and AI 17:51 - The Birth of Transformers 22:33 - NEAR AI and Crowdsourcing 27:56 - AI Agents and Future Applications 31:04 - The End of Websites and Applications 34:08 - Dead Internet Theory & Distinguishing Humans 41:49 - Open Source vs. Open Weight Models 43:48 - Geopolitical Implications of AI 46:55 - NEAR Protocol and Blockchain Scaling 59:29 - The Role of Humans in an AI World

a16z crypto

47,069 views • 1 year ago

This week on my podcast, The Most Interesting Thing in AI, I had the pleasure of talking with Audrey Tang about two big topics: How can AI help democracy? Audrey has helped get Taiwan to use the tools of modern technology to strengthen democracy even as they have frayed it around the world. What is the secret, and could it work in the U.S? How can we build humanistic and pluralistic values into the most powerful AI? Audrey has a great theory about the two races in AI---one vertical, and one horizontal---and how, with the tools of open-source, it's possible that we can align all future models with our highest ambitions. It’s a brilliant framework for thinking about the future of AI. I hope you'll listen to our conversation: Produced by Atlantic Re:think with PwC.

This week on my podcast, The Most Interesting Thing in AI, I had the pleasure of talking with Audrey Tang about two big topics: How can AI help democracy? Audrey has helped get Taiwan to use the tools of modern technology to strengthen democracy even as they have frayed it around the world. What is the secret, and could it work in the U.S? How can we build humanistic and pluralistic values into the most powerful AI? Audrey has a great theory about the two races in AI---one vertical, and one horizontal---and how, with the tools of open-source, it's possible that we can align all future models with our highest ambitions. It’s a brilliant framework for thinking about the future of AI. I hope you'll listen to our conversation: Produced by Atlantic Re:think with PwC.

nxthompson

28,514 views • 1 year ago