PSA: On a @Waymo through Portero Hill - just had two black matte cars block me in the middle of the road, flash custom beam lights into and start aggressively drive towards it. Felt co-ordinated. Stay safe SF.

Can you at least try to build journalistic trust with the 60% of Australia who clearly have a perspective that isn’t wholly aligned to yours as someone at the ABC?

No one said it was AD

Here we go again 🚀! Excited to announce that we're building @a1baseapi (YC W25) with @pennepastaa and that we're in the @ycombinator W25 batch in San Francisco! What is A1Base? A1Base gives AI Agents a real world identity for work. We do that by rebuilding Twilio and Okta from the ground up, putting AI Agents first. This means developers can make AI-first agentic applications 10x easier with our API's. ⁉️ Why are we doing this? Because there's a huge torrent of new valuable companies possible with AI agents, but to get their AI Agents to users, they have to chain custom apps, chat interfaces, awkward Slack integrations, browser bots, and wrestle with Twilio’s legacy API (which is built for marketing). We solve this by providing developers with an easy to use API to interface your AI agent with humans/coworkers/users where they are in this case in Whatsapp, Slack, Teams, SMS and more) - with AI Agent features built in. These digital workers are poised to transform how we work and we're the critical infrastructure to help them interact naturally in human workflows. We're not just building another AI tool. We're creating the infrastructure that will enable AI agents to become a natural part of the workforce - handling everything from customer support to sales development to creative work. We're backed by Y Combinator and working with founding teams who share our vision. We believe that in the near future, AI Agents with human coworkers will enable us to pursue more creative and impactful work. Our mission is to help developers build AI Agents that people can partner with and rely on as trusted allies—always with a human-first mindset. If you're thinking about the Agentic future of your company reach out! If you're looking to build your first AI Agentic company - reach out too - we have some amazing open source templates to get you started on the journey. Excited to share more of what we're up to soon 🔜.

Seeing many of this archetype in belgium for some reason too

Some vibe pics from @ycombinator alumni demo day

He’s wrong. We need houses to be treated as a cost of living, not an investment asset. Hence, we need to destroy the capital gains tax discount housing owners get when they sell a house.

Introducing A1Mail - Email for AI Agents! 📬🤖 TLDR: With A1Mail you can create an email address then send and receive mail from that address for your AI Agent - without paying $12 per month per Gmail or wrestling with integration issues

We just built A1Mail - email for AI agents. Turns out the problem wasn't making AI smarter, it was making them communicate like humans. Your executive assistant AI can now have its own inbox and respond like a team member. The early use cases from developers are pretty wild. Sometimes the most transformative tech solves the most mundane problems everyone assumes someone else will handle. Check out @a1baseapi today!

So much love for @ycombinator W25 batch

ODYSSEY PART ONE & PART TWO

In the coming weeks, @pennepastaa and I are sharing lively discussions with founders we love, who are building in AI. First, I spoke with my friend @andrewyan200 from @getathenahq (@ycombinator W25), who helps brands shine in generative AI search results. We explored a striking shift in customer discovery. For the first time, a customer found A1Base through an AI chat, not a traditional search engine. This trend is gaining momentum. Andrew revealed that late last year, when ChatGPT tapped fresher data, product discovery transformed. People now ask AI systems, "Which corporate card should I choose?" instead of turning to Google. We faced a tough truth: earning a spot in AI search results isn't easy. To stand out, brands must craft precise content that answers specific prompts and publish it where AI systems look. After years of mastering Google's algorithms, we now confront a fresh challenge: staying discoverable. Those who embrace this shift and adapt will keep connecting with customers as behaviours change. How has AI search reshaped the way people find your products?

Had to call support and they took over the car and they called 911 in the moment. Ngl felt like one of those stories where if you went out the story wouldn’t end well!

The pyramid engineering discussion had me in hysterics as you could feel Peter trying to get out of that black hole of a topic

Its also damaging the educational experience of Australia’s top local students. They work hard to get a great high school score then spend group assignment time with students who bought their way in. (Certain countries don’t send their best here, others do though)

Have asked Waymo for pictures, but my memory is of a black matte car with tinted black windows. Will report after some info in from Waymo

I’ll be the token Asian here and respond: yes it definitely is one of the least racist places in the world. Everyday Australians don’t care what your background is. It’s safe. You can have better opportunities being of a different background than anywhere else in the world.

I will stand on this hill forever: Australia is not a racist country. Regardless of your background, it's one of the best and fairest places. Try being brown in any other country.

I’ve been pretty calm online but I’ve had some visceral hate against me, as someone who thinks No is better on principle of a fairer and better australia!

Had my first customer call who said they found our company through @grok. 👀

For me, the whole goodwill of the labor party developed over the last ~30 years of my life has dissolved to zero with the albanese gov. This is coming from someone who went to high school in his electorate and saw him as great growing up.

Do it! Astonishingly YC W25 is a better accelerator than W19. One underrated thing about @ycombinator is that they keep improving their product for the best founders. There’s no better place to get your company off the ground in the world, by a country mile. Apply to YC now!

Out of genuine curiosity, from your perspective how does the inverse question go? At what point of success does a community need to have before they can claim freedom from sins done to ancestors ?

Our company @a1baseapi is in the second month of @ycombinator's W25 batch! Here's a peek inside one of our days

Was genuinely so impressed by her. Her eloquence is far above anyone on the whole YES campaign, while showing she genuinely cares for the people she represents.

Whose bankrolling the other campaign again?

At A1Base this month we had 338% growth in the number of messages sent from AI to humans! NGL we're seeing some awesome new ways people are interacting with AI in their work and personal lives! Follow @a1baseapi for more!

I wouldn't have had the most amazing opportunities in life without YC. YC is willing to bet on people before they're obvious to everyone else. In other places you've got to go to the right schools, be in the right families, or look a certain way- but YC is open to the world.

What we get right today, is that we can improve not only our inner-selves (stoicism, buddhism etc.), but the outer world too (science, food, space exploration, technology).

Happy Australia Day from the USA! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 Did you know there’s only one country in the world where more emigration from the USA than immigration to the USA? Greatest place in the world. Here’s what a summer evening feels like back home:

I can't believe the day has come when we announce @theforage_ has agreed to be acquired by @EAB ! Forage's first-of-its-kind job simulations, millions of students, a network of universities of thousands, and it's hundreds of top employers around the world will help make EAB an unstoppable force in its mission to make education smarter and our communities stronger. When I wrote up the code that invented the first virtual job simulation (we called them virtual internships back then), we couldn't have imagined the reach, impact and success we'd have. Who knew you could make a dent in large chunks of hiring cohorts, diversity outcomes, and impact so many personal lives with technology? It's exciting to be able to prove out that you're able to help people, do something unique and make a great business. This journey has been crazy, and it hasn't been an easy or free ride getting here - but we wouldn't have gotten here without the fantastic team we've had - from exceptional engineers, product people, growth and marketing, to sales and more - with too many names and stories to share in this one post at the moment - thank you. Of course, thank you, my cofounder, @BrunskillTom , for driving this process and carrying this all through the last 7 to 8 years. The future of @theforage_ is bright, and we are excited to see it move forward with @EAB ! eab.com/about/newsroom/press…

At @a1baseapi, we’ve learned what most founders miss about AI agents: they don’t replace your team. They fix gaps. The best companies don’t automate everything. They target specific problems—meeting summaries, dashboard monitoring, support ticket routing. Tasks that waste your team’s time. The key is integration. If your AI is stuck in a separate tool, your team won’t use it. It works when it’s seamless—sending a Slack message to a specialist when a complex ticket arrives or texting a field tech without requiring a separate login. We see this in every industry: automate high-volume, simple tasks and keep human communication easy for everything else. That’s why we built A1Base. We create the communication layer that makes AI agents useful, not abandoned. Smart companies treat AI agents like team members, giving them digital identities that work across platforms, hold context, and build trust. Ready to make your AI agents effective communicators? Visit @a1baseapi

A1mail’s new calendar invite feature is live! AI agents can now send invites to book meetings, reserve work time, or plan events like parties. Our API makes scheduling simple.

I love seeing good people building great things win

Just say explicitly you have no courage and don’t care about the average Australian.

as an Australian who just drove through a ton of smoke; there's no reason to stop people having a good time and trying to help someone out just because of our Bushfires

Yes! Australia has a fair, kind, tolerant, open and hard working culture. Many take it for granted how good it is here. We mustn’t let evil spread at all costs.

A lot of people mistake kindness as weakness. The most successful people are open to everyone but push back with a force many can’t expect.

Tbh putting labor in the centre is a total psyop. Makes it hard to even trust the axis of the graph.

In the other direction, I recently learned the Teddy Bear was named after Theodore Roosevelt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_…

@a1baseapi @pennepastaa

Initially it got the waymo to move to a different side of the road. Suspect some sort of sensor dazzling.

What about making it the centre of a multi planetary federation all year around?

Interesting.. it reminds me of a certain doctor who ..?

👀 Indonesians look around suspiciously

Building @a1baseapi has been humbling. Every week we uncover more things that are broken in the AI agent space. We started thinking "help agents communicate with people = more stuff gets done." Turns out there's way more to fix. My mate told me last night he tried ChatGPT last year and "it wasn't that good." Most people still haven't touched this stuff while we're busy building the future of AI workers. The gap between what we're building and what people actually use is massive. That's the real problem to solve. Full thoughts in the video!

Its only upwards from here for Australia! Thanks @gearside and some amazing people!

Today we take for granted that we can *progress* to a better world. Back then, the world looked roughly the same for thousands of years, and philosophies were made for people to survive that world.

Who continually didn’t know what to do when they lost someone they loved until eventually losing themselves over unprocessed grief.

Exiting makes you believe god has favourites

I’ve always pondered if people can’t grok that ancients might have been as intelligent as us, they just cared about different things

Mum was at Bondi, and thankfully she got out safe. These things shouldn’t be happening in Australia.

It’s dangerous out there, be safe everyone

Both are bad. Both need to be investigated. No need to do what-about-isms and “akschullays”

To be fair to Huberman “relationships” were clearly meant to be plural

You have no idea how much of an honour it’s been to have you as a group partner twice - thank you @mwseibel for making a huge impact on my life 🫡

The language we use for debating is the language of war. Someone wins, someone loses and we attack arguments. Instead it should be more like cooking - let me spice up your argument with an extra bit of information, lets bake these two ideas together to get an well-formed answer!

Should we do a $1TN hackathon?

A lot of political discourse we’re seeing online right now in the west is because for the last 30 years well meaning rules have with good intent have been gamed to their gross conclusion

At A1Base we’ve always started work at 5am in the most optimized way

This is possible again with AI

That’s interesting, I’m talking to university educated migrant people and many of us are saying no, and are wanting to keep the good australia we have the same. Wonder what the difference is.

I feel like my job today is basically being an AI hype man

I don't think they're mutually exclusive - all of the thielian startups talked to users excessively - they just didn't always do exactly what the users said, but built what those users would want in the near & far future.

How are we building @a1baseapi (@ycombinator) for the future of AI Agents? We went on the @Sachin_and_Adam Show recently to talk about our thesis of what we think the world of agents is going to look like. One thing that struck me during our chat: we're not building another chatbot interface. We're going Twilio-level deep – letting AI agents communicate where humans actually are. SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, email. Here's my take: AI isn't going to change how people work. We need to build AI around how people currently work. Find the full episode in the comments!

Ten was just negging

Thanks for the shoutout of @theforage_ @UNSWFounders @UNSW and @blackbirdvc - we wouldn't be here helping millions of students and companies around the world without the support of you all! Thanks @StartupDailyANZ for the write-up!

If it’s all chaos, why not dance in the fire?

No we should stop making housing an investment asset and make them stop appreciating! Therefore, we must destroy the capital gains discount for house sales!

Knowing many people who came from low income families (and non university parent families) and worked insanely hard to get marks (even without tutoring and other things) this blanket statement is absolutely wrong and damaging.

Got married to the most amazing person. Big life W!

Yeah it is real :/ was freaky man!

Hot take: I actually think we should have a royal commission on universities passing students without intellectual merit.

> Jira but for buying a house in sydney

Recently got to hang out with some brilliant AI founders at @SquarePegCap, alongside @jamestynan! I got to chat about what I see coming for AI Agents and what we're doing at @a1baseapi

We’ve unfortunately built an opt-in culture for serfdom today by making houses an investment asset, rather than a cost of living one. We need to shift that culture if we’re to fix australia. To solve this we must destroy the capital gains tax discount on when homes are sold!

Most founders are overthinking AI. There's tremendous alpha in just using it for seemingly mundane stuff! @navvye from Bindwell built an agent to scrape thousands of scientific reports - stuff that used to take teams months. Data quality matters way more than fancy architectures. Best model + bad data = garbage results. Full convo in the video.

The other problem is that it also stifles rich debate and discussions in class, from comp sci, to accounting, to law.

I suspect this is because for many people, once they read Marx, Hegel, or Aristotle they immediately believe themselves to be a Marxist, Hegelian or Aristotelian. Not many people can comprehend that you can read and understand a topic - and NOT believe in it's tenets wholesale

Execution is King, and Distribution is King, Community is King is all cope from the same tree. Be “make something people want” pilled 🫡

It doesn't help the yes campaign that every time they come up against an argument, they shout 'disinformation' or 'racism' instead of start a dialogue

Can confirm this to be true. On my mum I once said “what better heritage is that than that of a saint”. She really has been life’s most unfair advantage.

I’m deathly jealous of not being in Sydney right now cause these sessions by @JosephNWalker would be so so so good

When you think about it manifestation is just world-prompting.

Wth really!??

The difference: “Nothing” matters VS “Nothing matters”

Culture and myths precede economic outcomes - and YC sets you up right there. The capital and technicals you see at YC is then fuel on the fire.

A lot of people would do well with a spoonful of existential confidence

Journalistic integrity includes not whining. I’d argue that there’s a lot more opinion than facts/truth in much of her reporting. The tactic is to use a small kernel of truth then layer opinion on top. The abc shouldn’t do that - leave that to the Guardian and the Australian.

The aura of these boys!

Sometimes it's the little product improvements at @InsideSherpa that make things better for our students! I love the fact that one of our latest product updates is getting colourful confetti to pop up on your screen when you complete one of our virtual experience programs!

I do like reminding the YES campaign of this image:

Wth @canva - you run a ticketed event and then don’t let large amount of people in cause you’re at capacity? You’ve wasted about 20+ people’s time, a few came in on an Uber. Poor form and event organizing.

I actually think we’re going to make it work 🔥

One of the best things about earnest people is how not “anti” their attitude is.

The Australian economy is great, the streets are safe, the people are grounded and hard working, and culturally anyone can become Australian. It’s a great deal for people who can come here.

@andrewyan200 and @sudosandvich are spending long hours and late nights pushing this space and it’s amazing to watch from afar

It’s actually kind of historic, important and useful. There are plenty of other places to take aim of. I mean by this logic let’s also just zone national parks. Can we just YIMBY tastefully?

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