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sak84

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About sak84

I'm a startup founder, advisor and investor based in Oakland.

I'm currently the founder and CEO of elvex, an agent platform that transforms every employee into an AI-native. Prior to elvex, I founded and was the CEO of Parse.ly from 2008 to 2022. Parse.ly built a content analytics platform used by hundreds of the best enterprises in the world. In February of 2021 Parse.ly was acquired by Automattic, makers of WordPress, as their largest acquisition by cost and revenue.

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    this resonates hard and exactly what i'm trying to build to solve at elvex. the missing pieces we are building around are: - unified auth/permissions across multiple AI providers -…

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    yeah the gap between "chatbot that writes code" and "actual multi-agent workflow" is real built elvex to solve this with: - multi-provider access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) so dif…

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    Luck is a huge factor in startup success. But you can't capture luck if you're not around to grab it. Persistence is what keeps you in the game long enough for luck to find you. In…

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    I think you're right that 10x isn't realistic for most work, and Brooks is still mostly correct. The "No Silver Bullet" argument holds because most of software development isn't ty…

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    I saw a tweet from Andrej Karpathy that's been sitting with me. He's never felt this behind as a programmer. I've been thinking about this through the marshmallow challenge, where …

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    Ask HN: Where Is the FOSS Alternative to Merge, Paragon, Unified, etc.

    MCP servers aren't going to cut it for enterprise use cases. N8n and Composio are interesting, but license restriction make it hard to use. Maintaining integrations is a pain and t…

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    Appreciate the feedback (author, here). It is optimized for our qualified leads which are the top online publishers on the web. However, we've heard your feedback a few times in th…

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    I work for Parse.ly who helped push out some of the data for the article. Fark.com was #15 on the list, above Digg, but below Reddit.

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