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Joined November 2021
two rooms just opened at mission control, the oldest hacker house in SF scale ai, hightouch, pylon among other unicorns started here residents throughout the past decade have raised more than $2B in funding rent is $1.8k/month, one year min stay apply missioncontrol.house
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Congrats Matthew!!
Replying to @ClementBonnet16
@ClementBonnet16 and I started After Labs with a simple conviction. The next leap in AI will not come from models that merely store more knowledge or bake more task-specific skills into their weights. It will come from systems that can continually learn and refine their understanding of the world through interaction. At After Labs, we are singularly focused on developing world models with the ability to adapt with every new data point instead of staying static. These adaptation mechanisms need to be built into the model during training and not bolted on as an afterthought. Stay tuned as we pursue this mission of building curious agents that never stop learning 💡
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summoning consumer founders in sf come hang out at mission control to celebrate tax day next wednesday partiful.com/e/3qhXnNInMC4PS…
where are the consumer app founders in sf? i lowkey have three iOS apps live in the app store right now but haven't built up the gumption to start marketing them yet looking for buddies tbh
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Congrats on the launch!!
We've raised $6.5M to kill vector databases. Every system today retrieves context the same way: vector search that stores everything as flat embeddings and returns whatever "feels" closest. Similar, sure. Relevant? Almost never. Embeddings can’t tell a Q3 renewal clause from a Q1 termination notice if the language is close enough. A friend of mine asked his AI about a contract last week, and it returned a detailed, perfectly crafted answer pulled from a completely different client’s file. Once you’re dealing with 10M+ documents, these mix-ups happen all the time. VectorDB accuracy goes to shit. We built @hydra_db for exactly this. HydraDB builds an ontology-first context graph over your data, maps relationships between entities, understands the 'why' behind documents, and tracks how information evolves over time. So when you ask about 'Apple,' it knows you mean the company you're serving as a customer. Not the fruit. Even when a vector DB's similarity score says 0.94. More below ⬇️
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// there are moments when breakthroughs shape entire markets and the way we work with technology we've seen similar inflection points from the birth of the Internet to the conception of LLMs and then autonomous agents > and I believe we're witnessing a pivotal one here I've had the privilege of knowing @contextkingceo living together at the @mission__ctrl hacker house. very few founders think this deeply about where AI systems actually break once they leave the demo phase vector search helped bootstrap the first wave of RAG that extended the use of agents into every domain/industry but at real scale, with millions of documents, evolving workflows, production agents, similarity ≠ truth any autonomous system depends on context to work. but retrieval needs to be grounded in the semantic meaning to be contextually accurate. that's how we as humans work. and that's how AI would need to work alongside humans this means that ontology-first context graphs will be a new core primitive for the AI stack. and as context graphs took over mindshare in the past months, @hydra_db takes a foundational approach to infrastructure supporting this. I host the annual @aiplus_hq AI+ Renaissance conference and spending time with hundreds of frontier teams building agents, multimodal systems, and enterprise AI, this is one of the companies I am most excited about the addressable market here is massive and still largely untapped as AI becomes embedded everywhere we work and live - from b2b systems like CRMs and internal knowledge tools to consumer memory layers in devices and everyday apps - this category will only grow in importance huge congrats to Nishkarsh and team, and proud to be an angel investor one of the highest-leverage infra bets I’ve seen in recent times still very early to the market and already dominating. hail hydra.
We've raised $6.5M to kill vector databases. Every system today retrieves context the same way: vector search that stores everything as flat embeddings and returns whatever "feels" closest. Similar, sure. Relevant? Almost never. Embeddings can’t tell a Q3 renewal clause from a Q1 termination notice if the language is close enough. A friend of mine asked his AI about a contract last week, and it returned a detailed, perfectly crafted answer pulled from a completely different client’s file. Once you’re dealing with 10M+ documents, these mix-ups happen all the time. VectorDB accuracy goes to shit. We built @hydra_db for exactly this. HydraDB builds an ontology-first context graph over your data, maps relationships between entities, understands the 'why' behind documents, and tracks how information evolves over time. So when you ask about 'Apple,' it knows you mean the company you're serving as a customer. Not the fruit. Even when a vector DB's similarity score says 0.94. More below ⬇️
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from living in a closet at @mission__ctrl to sponsoring our first conference with @hyperspell @aiplus_hq is about to start game time
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🏆Solo win of most hardcore infra at the @browser_use hackathon!!! Quantized their model & made some GPU + library optimizations to make it 3-6X FASTER While increasing performance with @dedaluslabs + @supermemory Below is it interacting in realtime, faster than a human
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housemates put balloons on my door while i was sleeping through the day feeling very blessed to be living at @mission__ctrl
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MC graduation 💙💛
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Spots open at Mission Control hacker house in San Francisco! Room E: Dec 13 – Dec 31 Room K: Dec 13 – Dec 29
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@mission__ctrl to @ycombinator pipeline is real haha
3 generations of @mission__ctrl -> @ycombinator founders reunited at f25 alumni demo day @avikonduru (s25) and @peterzhu01 (x25)
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MC crew in 3 consecutive YC batches! 🎉
3 generations of @mission__ctrl -> @ycombinator founders reunited at f25 alumni demo day @avikonduru (s25) and @peterzhu01 (x25)
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Updated Mission Control hackerhouse sublets in SF for Dec! DM with your room pref and dates! Room A: Dec 17 – Dec 31 Room E: Dec 10 – Dec 31 Room K: Dec 13 – Dec 29 Room J: Dec 15 - Dec 31
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Mission Control hackerhouse sublets in SF for Dec! DM with your room pref and dates! 🛏️ Room A Nov 18 – Dec 3 Dec 17 – Dec 31 🛏️ Room E Dec 10 – Dec 31 🛏️ Room J Dec 1 – Dec 14 🛏️ Room K Dec 2 – Dec 7 Dec 13 – Dec 29
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Incredible to see original footage of Hightouch's launch pad at Mission Control -- with 3 mattresses and 3 desks in a single hacker house bedroom. Congrats to Tejas Manohar, Kashish Gupta, Josh Curl and the team on the launch of Hightouch AI Agents!
The last few months have been the most intense period of my career. While scaling Hightouch 100%+ YoY, my cofounders and I decided to go back into early stage startup mode with a much bigger vision “What would the marketing process look like today if it was re-written with AI at every step” Introducing Hightouch Agents 🚀 hightouch.com/blog/hightouch…
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OMG I JUST WON THE AGENTMAIL YC HACKATHON!! Literally can’t think right now Very special thanks to the sponsors for letting me try and hack your websites (most of them were a-ok)
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congrats @AlexAridgides on winning the hackathon! incredible product put together by a solo team alex is a 19 yo college dropout who also lived in the @mission__ctrl closet he’s insanely cracked and has great things ahead, this is just the start enjoy this moment 🚀🚀
OMG I JUST WON THE AGENTMAIL YC HACKATHON!! Literally can’t think right now Very special thanks to the sponsors for letting me try and hack your websites (most of them were a-ok)
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Hyperspell (@hyperspell) gives AI agents memory. It connects to Slack, Gmail, Notion, and Drive, so agents get context and remember what they learn. Congrats @conor_ai and @maebert on the launch! ycombinator.com/launches/Ocs…
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a few spots are left for @Techweek_ hardtech event bringing together some of the coolest hardtech startups + vcs in the bay area. not enough spaces for robotics/space/manufacturing/automation founders to meet! - making that possible next wednesday with @NFX and @EveryBanking. if you’re working in the future of hardtech, rsvp here: partiful.com/e/UGJ3W4ON6KFTV… and dm me!
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