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gumloop raised a $50m series b led by benchmark
here's a video we had fun making about the journey
back to work.
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Max Brodeur-Urbas
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Max Brodeur-Urbas
@MaxBrodeurUrbas
ceo @gumloop
- step 1: rent an Airbnb step 2: invite people you love working with step 3: do the best work of your careers rinse and repeat
00:00 - hire your friends and work on the idea you can’t shut up about
00:00 - A YC batch-mate was quoted 16k from a consultant for a custom AI invoice processor Their intern built it in 2 hours on Gumloop GPT-4o now: -Analyzes any receipt sent to their Gmail -Extracts vendor + amount -Categorizes it -Adds it to their Notion DB -Texts their finance admin
GIF - 9am - noon: everyone on the team talks to users noon - 10pm: we sit in a room and build what they asked for rinse and repeat, 6 days a week (we’ve been at it for ~1.5 years) things fall into place if you do it long enough the view gradually gets better too 🏔️
00:00 - One of YC's largest consumer startups was paying an ad consultant 310k/yr to monitor competitor ad strategies Gemini + o1 completely replaced them -gemini consumes all active ads (video + image) -o1 writes thoughtful strategic analysis -leadership is emailed full reports
GIF - A YC batch mate wanted AI to convert their Youtube videos to SEO optimized blog posts Took <1 hr to automate + add multi language translation GPT4o instantly: -Watches the video -Writes a structured blog post -Translates it to any # of languages -Publishes them all to Ghost
GIF - Since YC ended, we've had 10+ demo calls a day Every morning, Claude 3.5 Sonnet sends me detailed research reports about everyone I'm meeting At 8am, I get a -Text with a TLDR about my day -Detailed email with research about every customer (ARR, company summary, industry etc)
00:00 - i built a Claude-powered receipt bot on a 15 min demo call last month. customer let us know it's handled 1.2k invoices across their business since it auto-detects any invoice email: -renames + uploads attachments to gdrive -categorizes + extracts all info to gsheets -texts them
GIF - During YC demo day a VC asked us if AI could automate their deal flow Claude 3.5 Sonnet now analyzes every pitch deck they get emailed It instantly: -Extracts all metrics from pdf -Finds all founder LinkedIns + extracts their background -Writes to Notion + sends a link in Slack
GIF - A YC startup we met got 2.4k applications to their open dev role and wanted Claude 3.5 Sonnet to help spot the best candidates Took 30 mins to build Now they can drop in a Zip and specify criteria. It -Checks their GitHub activity -Counts the criteria met -Sorts them in a sheet
00:00 - Gumloop will be a 10-person $1b company We have 6 spots leftWe're excited to announce Gumloop's $17m series A led by @NexusVP with participation from @firstround, @ycombinator and angels like @Max, @ShaanVP, @bryantchou, @rxin to name a few The future of AI automation is bright and we're thrilled to help shape it blog.gumloop.com/gumloops-17m-s…
- An intern's summer project at a YC unicorn was to add internal links across their 800+ blog posts She did it in 1 day with Claude 3.5 Sonnet + got a return offer 🎉 -It reads every blog -Spots thousands of chances to link content together -Explains each opportunity in a sheet
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