Keith Bender @keithbender
🏗️ 🌵 Joined July 2011-
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Keith Bender retweeted
We drove 410% conversion lift on @Replit's enterprise funnel, 2x-ing the number of demo requests. All in a matter of months. "Coframe makes you feel like you have a team of 100 people. There's nothing on the market like it." ⧉ x ⠕
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Keith Bender retweeted
Today we unveiled Neo Residency, a new program for startups and high-agency student teams. 🎉 We’re replacing our best-known program, Neo Accelerator, with something even better and more selective. 🧵
this YC co by @noah_yin7 just put out an AI generated launch video as full of historical characters as the FTX super bowl commercial with Larry David. just as good and probably .001% the cost youtube.com/watch?v=VOZJwx…
Windsurf to @cognition_labs = fastest first call to close acquisition -- and now of course @HarryStebbings is fastest with the full story. a great one with @ScottWu46! youtube.com/watch?v=Xz060_…
Bell Labs' hulking skeleton was my favorite place to explore when visiting family in Holmdel. When people wonder about inevitability of GAMMA long-term dominance, I show them photos I took during the decade+ it sat empty. Hard to imagine the Googleplex as a "metroburb" of course...
@simulacronist i'm so sorry. get well soon, vish.
@BenKeig137 😂didn't mean to leave you off the ship
Congratulations @masonwang025 @dhruv31415 and Ben -- excited to be part of the journey as you build @tilderesearch!
We're thrilled to be launching Tilde. We're applying interpretability to unlock deep reasoning and control of models, enabling the next generation of human-AI interaction. By understanding a model's inner mechanisms, we can enhance both its reliability and performance—going
Keith Bender retweeted
Awesome hearing @dkhos share his journey to becoming Uber’s CEO. Huge thanks to @pearvc and @keithbender for hosting such an insightful conversation 🙌 Now I’ll be on the lookout for a masked Uber driver 👀
@saarth_ @garrytan @ravi_riley @ObinnaAka @cryptokidf 👀
@elonmusk That is a super cool humanless horseless carriage
main takeaway is @tesla has an excellent in-house dj
The future will be streamed live 10/10, 7pm PT x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Keith Bender retweeted
Congrats to all the founders of PearX Summer 2024. This was an amazing demo day! @pearvc You did it! 🙌
Thanks for joining! We think that Reid (left) could be the next @patrickc (right) 🙃 ... since you joined for both demo days, hope you would say you agree!
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Keith Bender retweeted
🍐 Pear Demo Day giving early YC Demo Day vibes - SF at its best
"ripping" is in. "crushing it" is out. that happened fast! when bragging about your portfolio companies, it's crucial to get the jargon du jour right (don't even try with "killing it" or "up and to the right")
Builders: Come play with🍓, @OpenAI o1-mini, 4o and other Tier 5 treats at our Hackathon next month!
Come build with @OpenAI at the Pear Hackathon on 10/12. Applications are due by 9/29. Don’t miss this opportunity to build with the latest OpenAI products, receive expert guidance, and present your projects to AI leaders on our expert judging panel. shorturl.at/mRsha
PearX applications open🔓now. Come build with the best crew here at @pearvc. Top of my wishlist for this cohort: 1. Actually useful AI applications 2. Actually useful AI applications 3. Actually useful AI applications
PearX W25 applications are now open! Read more about what we offer here: pear.vc/pearx-w25-appl…
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