At YC we often ask what is constraining growth of a startup. In some cases, it’s oxygen.

most founders wait until their product is perfect before selling to customers. Finn Mallery did the opposite — he dropped out of stanford and built a $50K/month AI startup before shipping a single feature. full episode: search "Omar Waseem" on YouTube

Introducing Origami: AI Research Agents that can find you anything. 9 months ago I pitched my most cracked friend a crazy startup idea and he dropped out + moved to the US to help me build it (in a tweet that went viral). Check out what we’ve been working on

Finn is outbound Jesus. His depth of knowledge in B2B sales is frankly concerning Now he’s put this knowledge into an infinite number of origami agents, gg

finn is a dog and a killer. so much respect.

Not using Veo 3 for startup launch videos now seems entirely outdated.

announcing Cluely's $15M fundraise, led by a16z. cheat on everything.

i refused to send cold emails. so, we sent custom doormats to 100+ of the hottest startups instead. "your shoes look good. do your SOCs 2?" (spoiler: it got us more responses than weeks of cold emails.)

Just the beginning Cluely 🚀🚀🚀

I’m excited to share that Conversion has raised a $28M Series A led by Abstract to build the modern marketing automation platform. Four years ago, James Jiao and I started Conversion out of our UC Berkeley dorm room. Since then, we’ve launched, pivoted, and rebuilt the

what it’s like to build a startup w/ close friends. Finn Mallery