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refrigerator

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About refrigerator

founder: https://causal.app twitter: @TaimurAbdaal blog: https://taimur.me

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    Comment #46846215

    Very fun and impressive to do this without LLMs! My score: 191 animals listed 𓆈𓇼 ⬛鯉𓃱唐𓆉𓃸𓆣𓆉 (update: oh... looks like you can't paste the full emoji string here)

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    Comment #44878934

    Great concept — definitely needed and will hopefully push the labs to improve design abilities of models!

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    Comment #42806891

    Amazing, congrats man!!

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    Comment #42781711

    Would love to chat to it — please publish online!

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    Comment #42763583

    This is spot on. All the smart and ambitious people I know who studied (non-software) Engineering at university in the UK have ended up going into software engineering via self-tea…

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    Comment #42028357

    Thanks! Definitely keen to start something again eventually, but in no rush right now :)

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    Comment #42025158

    Thanks man!

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    Comment #42025157

    We started as a US company in 2019 to make fundraising easier, and I think this did have a material impact. It's operationally quite annoying, but chances are that we would have ha…

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    Comment #42025154

    Lucanet approached us a few months ago, we were open to taking a couple of meetings to learn more, and they sold us on the acquisition pretty well

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    Comment #42022971

    We will likely stay focused on financial planning rather than go broad on all the rest of the spreadsheet use cases

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    Comment #42022936

    That’s awesome! Thanks for using Causal and really glad you like it. Nothing will change for existing users so you can keep using it for sure :)

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    Comment #42022646

    Yup we’re sticking around and leading the Causal business unit within Lucanet

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    Comment #42022449

    Thank you!

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    Comment #42022436

    Thanks! We hope to get back on the pod :) I think the spreadsheet space is honestly super challenging. There’s lots of possible use-cases for these tools, but also, Excel/Sheets ar…

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    Comment #42022375

    Thank you!

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    Comment #42022372

    Without getting into numbers, it’s more than we would have been able to make at, say, a big tech job over the same time period (5 years)

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    Comment #42022304

    Thanks! We didn’t have an end goal in mind from the beginning — we had the idea for the product and wanted to see if it had legs as a business, and then grow it and see where we co…

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    Comment #42022167

    Ah awesome, thanks!!

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    Comment #42022163

    Product acquisition, we’ll be continuing to grow Causal at Lucanet, lots of potential to cross-sell into their existing customer base :)

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    Comment #42022159

    Thank you!

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    Comment #42022156

    Thanks man!