Pascual Merita

Pascual Merita

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Co-Founder at Arthos. Building Mozart AI
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I'm Pascual, Co-Founder at Arthos. We're building Mozart AI, an AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with the goal of allowing producers to make music at the speed of thought. Think Cursor for Music Production. Prior to this I was doing AI research at Huawei.

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Pascual Merita•

6mo ago

Brains by API, Value by UX? Curious to hear your thoughts

The other day I was talking with a friend about how companies like Anthropic and ChatGPT sell intelligence through APIs but much of the user-facing value is being created by other companies which use their APIs.

These companies wrap the API (hence the name openAI-wrappers) with clean UX, clever prompts, and just enough orchestration to feel like a full product. They don t need to build the model, they just need to understand the user s workflow.

But now, with OpenAI acquiring the hardware startup IO and moving toward building physical products, the lines are starting to blur. Will we end up with one unified interface for general intelligence, or a fragmented ecosystem of domain-specific wrappers?
Super curious to hear where you think this is headed. Also, as a side question, what are your thoughts about all these gpt-wrappers?

Sundar Arvind•

6mo ago

The 1 person unicorn dream - Myth or Reality?

Hey All,

The thesis of a 1-person Unicorn has been going around since the emergence of LLMs and Agents. While I certainly see how an engineer can now do the work of 10, maybe 20 engineers, I'm still not able to see the path to a $1B company.

Pascual Merita•

6mo ago

short or mid-term work-life balance - which one is best?

I genuinely think about this every week. My approach has always been to ignore short-term balance (not worrying too much about weeks or months) and focus on the mid-term. I ll go all-in for 6 months when needed, give or take, and then slow down to recharge before ramping up again. Fow now, it s kind of helped me push through the toughest periods without burning out completely. That said, recently I ve felt the need for more weekly balance too. Even a small sauna session on Sundays helps a lot. How do you approach it? Are you more consistent week to week, or do you go through mid-term cycles like this too? would really like to get your thoughts on this!
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