cofounder of proximitty (yc w26) | professional dancer
London, England
Joined September 2021
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Wye Yew Ho retweeted
Introducing overshoot, it will cut your GPU bill in half with zero quality loss, or you don’t pay.
Over the past few months, we have forward deployed into AI teams to optimize their inference stacks. They have now cumulatively saved over $5M.
Overshoot is software that bakes in our hard-earned inference learnings into a scalable solution.
overshoot.ai
wow i gotta block my weekend off now, this looks super interesting @vivianmshen 🥳
“Do you think that getting married young has made you less ambitious?”
Welcome to the first episode of SOTA Wives with Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, @MilksandMatcha) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, @vivianmshen).
In episode 1: finding your person before getting rich, turning down startup funding to finish MIT, what a YC partner sees in founders, and how a birthday post became “psychological violence.”
4:08 Finding your husband before the exit
8:48 Did we marry away our ambition?
18:04 The internet called Sarah's birthday “psychological violence”
20:47 Does your YC partner secretly think you’re doomed?
23:47 Building a startup with your ex-boyfriend
28:54 SF cat parties
I think the market hasn’t factored in that inertia is a huge huge factor in consumer money movement decisioning. The utility of most folks storing their deposits in a traditional bank is due to FDIC insurance guarantees but also the innate ‘trust’ in traditional banks. A lot of folks CBA to optimise yields bc banking is a lot to do w relationships/trust.
These yields have existed for a while; and yet nobody has moved $$$ to the other players. Having agents may speed this up, but wont fundamentally switch consumer behaviours.
TLDR; if im an everyday user and im not already switching and have deposits with my bank - I am unlikely to do so and optimise even with a Muse or an Instinct because rate optimisation isnt the only factor in my utility function.
If there was one tool I would highly recommend as a sales founder - it would be Monaco.
One thing that @samdblond and Monaco understands that a lot of tools miss is GTM isn't just about automating workflows (e.g., cold outreach), it's the pace of experimentation on how well you can reach your audience. That involves (a) agents, but (b) immense creativity and understanding of your core customer profile.
What really amazed me is when I signed up for Monaco, I had an entire team to strategise GTM, help me 50x my pace of experimentation for my specific ICP. It wasn't just agents doing the work - it was a team of top 1% GTM folks figuring out with you on how to be creative and experiment fast and well.
@samdblond even helped brainstorm with me a recent campaign we ran that generated >high 7-figs of pipeline.
So glad for the launch and congrats on your success!
Today, we're launching Monaco into General Availability.
We onboarded several hundred hypergrowth startups during our beta. The results are staggering:
The average customer added 16 percentage points to their month-over-month revenue growth rate.
The average customer tripled their monthly meeting volume.
With today's release, Monaco is now the most advanced AI sales platform in the world.
Monaco customers have an unfair competitive advantage.
Wye Yew Ho retweeted
After six years, Jollibee is finally opening on Market Street. The beloved Filipino fast-food chain—known for its fried chicken, spaghetti, and peach mango pies—will open its doors July 31 at 934 Market Street, near the Powell Street BART station.
Six years is far too long for a business to wait. Through PermitSF, we are cutting red tape and making it faster and easier for businesses to open and grow in San Francisco. Stop by and welcome @Jollibee to San Francisco. sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…
We're looking for a killer MTS (up to $300K, 3% equity) in person in SF to help build frontier agents for complex commercial underwriting that Fable can barely solve yet. More details in thread below:
Wye Yew Ho retweeted
I built a skill to let my Claude Code build premium landing pages like this in one shot. The 3 sites in the video are one-shot results, ~$10-15 each.
Register @higgsfield_ai , install the CLI and scroll-world skill, hand the rest to Claude Code.
Frontier models score <3% on commercial underwriting benchmarks.
We're hiring one Member of Technical Staff to change that.
$200-230K + 1.5-3% equity. In person SF.
Solving this unlocks credit for 1M+ US businesses, and genuinely is one of the hardest problems to crack.
DMs if this is something interesting. $10K if you refer the person we hire!
job posting here: ycombinator.com/companies/pr…
Wye Yew Ho retweeted
“You really have to work so hard. It’s so hard. And I think that’s misunderstood.”
Eileen Gu, the 22-year-old Stanford student, runway model, and only action-sport athlete to win three medals apiece at two Olympic Games (Beijing 2022, Milano Cortina 2026) has long been a subject of fascination. At Cannes Lions, she opens up about what people don't understand about being "the best" at their craft.
Wye Yew Ho retweeted
rounds MBB -> YC founders raised in 2026 so far:
> announced today: @taktile_org $110M series C led by Goldman Sachs [McK]
> @StiltaIP $10.5M seed led by a16z [McK]
> @ProsperAI_HQ $30M series A led by a16z [Bain]
> @nourish $100M series C led by Menlo Ventures [Bain]
> @Avoca $125M combined seed - series B led by KP, GC, Meritech [BCG]
> @Starcloud_ $170M series A led by Benchmark, EQT [McK]
and of course massive @WeAreLegora $600M series D led by Accel [McK]
have a few MBB folks this summer - the prognosis is good
🧵Introducing the new look of Proximitty - the AI operating system of commercial lending - explaining our brand below:
2. We worked with James Wu and his team on a simple brief: if we were starting a brand from zero, what would earn the trust of a chief credit officer in the first 10 seconds?
When you sell regulator-grade AI agents to commercial lenders, every detail is a signal. The way our outputs are tracable to its source inputs, how each section is optimised to minimise review time. Banks notice craft, because craft is a proxy for how you'll handle their borrowers' data and their examiners' questions.