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This is the most insane demo I’ve seen. Subvocal YC F26 lets you speak completely silently and reads the minute movements of your face. So you can talk to your AI anytime.
AI + sensors is magic.
What’s crazier is they built this in 4 months. This demo was live yesterday evening at the YC office.
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
No more 5-hour limit for ultra plans
We’re renaming our Max plans:
Max 5x → Max
Max 20x → Ultra
Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do.
We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they’re verified, which helps us prevent fraud and abuse. You'll get an email when it's removed.
Weekly limits remain unchanged. View our plans here: claude.com/pricing
Alex retweeted
Anthropic will make ~1,000 employees worth +$100m at $2 trillion market cap.
There's ~11,000 Americans with $100m in investable assets.
So something like 1 in 12 Americans with $100m (liquid) will be from Anthropic. If you add in Openai, maybe 1 in 7.
Alex retweeted
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says building in highly-regulated environments like Europe make you so battle-hardened that you become hard to compete against:
“In Europe, everything is extremely capped and regulated compared to the US.”
“Plus very tough employment laws in many countries. In the US it’s very easy. It's employment at will. In Europe it is not like that. So you need to be very careful how you hire, who you hire.”
“So all this together actually produces an environment which is not very profitable, and very difficult to build a company. Then even in that environment, we succeeded.”
“We succeeded because we spend a lot of time and energy and brainpower to optimize on every single problem.”
“This difficult environment in Europe actually taught us how to build a business in a very competitive landscape.”
Next time I go to SF, I will visit every single cafe from this list.
made a map of Bay Area cafes where you’ve got the best shot at meeting VCs (and maybe raising your next round)
check it out: meetvc.cafe
Alex retweeted
BREAKING: Revolut has announced it has incorporated Revolut Ventures, which will launch in 2027.
Eligible customers will be able to invest in high-growth private tech companies directly in the app. Companies are staying private longer, so this is about giving retail access to that value creation phase.
Makes me think this could also become the vehicle for Revolut to offer its own shares to new investors before any IPO.
This percentage difference is unbelievable. What makes them so good at picking companies to invest in?
Alex retweeted
Revolut founder Nik Storonsky says one of his investors tried forcing him to fire his best person:
“He was forcing me to fire my best person, because he was too hardcore.”
“Of course I didn’t fire him. I said no.”
“Pretty early on I realized that quite a few VCs, they are not very operational, and they can be actually dangerous for the company if they have enough power. So every single investment round, we just remove VCs.”
“Now I don't have any VCs on the board. I think that's the best. You always need to have operators rather than VCs on the board, people who actually build business and who know how to do things.”
Nik Storonsky is one of the most hardcore and competitive founders I’ve ever talked to. He’s the founder of Revolut, a $115 billion company, and wants to be the number one bank in 100 countries.
When someone asked Nik if he was coming for Jamie Dimon's lunch, he said “I’m coming for his dinner.”
“We want to dominate, otherwise what’s the point?”
He removed every VC from his board, and when one investor pushed him too far, he started his own fund to compete with them.
Nik has a lot of ideas on talent, product design, marketing, constraints, and what makes founder-led companies special.
This is a fascinating conversation about competition, speed, and building a machine-like company.
0:00 Coming for Jamie Dimon's dinner
2:04 Building the #1 bank in 100 countries
6:12 Why founders beat professional CEOs
8:45 Revolut's biggest mistake
12:47 Why legacy banks can't innovate
17:20 Running a company like a machine
20:28 Funding winners and cutting losers like a trader
23:31 How AI is changing Revolut's team structure
25:23 50 direct reports and spreading innovation fast
29:59 Hiring self-guided missiles
33:31 Too much money makes founders weaker
37:38 What Europe's constraints taught Revolut
41:08 Why VCs are like football cheerleaders
49:28 Starting a fund to compete with VCs
54:28 From zero marketing to buying Europe's airports
1:00:21 Funding moonshots like a global tech company
1:03:58 Building an unstoppable machine
Includes paid partnerships.
The best and simplest thing that any founder can do is to sleep well and exercise.
Although it gets ignored sometimes.
Alex retweeted
You can spend your entire career as a founder working on problems that genuinely interest you. Pretty incredible when you think about it.
It sounds so simple and useful at the same time.
The 90-day sprint before your YC application:
Day 1–30: Talk to 30 potential users. Don't build anything yet. Just listen.
Day 31–60: Build the minimum thing that solves the most painful problem you heard.
Day 61–90: Get 3 people to pay for it. Any amount. Real money.
Submit the application on day 91.
That application will be unrecognizable compared to the one you would have written on day 1.
Alex retweeted
defining a new category: phone-use
an mcp/api that gives ai agents their own phones
cloud phones. real androids. real iphones.
tell your agent what to do, and it can operate a phone just like you do.
today, ai agents face three fundamental problems and phoneuse solves them 🧵
Alex retweeted
Introducing Eleven Realtime, a new class of Speech to Speech models.
Voice agents usually make you choose between quick replies or precise answers.
Eleven Realtime gives you both. It starts talking in half a second and gets spoken reasoning questions right.
Alex retweeted
founder-led content will win
here's how we do it at @WisprFlow