Vineeth

Vineeth

Building stuff @ https://gitgudapps.com
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Hi, I’m Vineeth. For over 21 years, I worked in software engineering across both development and leadership roles. Most recently, I was at Microsoft, where I designed and built large-scale cloud-native systems while collaborating with teams across the globe. It was an exciting ride, but after more than two decades in the corporate world, I felt the pull to create on my own terms. I’m now on a new path of solopreneurship (a.k.a. explorer/tinkerer) @ https://gitgudapps.com, experimenting with software products, AI tools, cloud services, with the goal of building things that are super useful and a delight to use. I also blog at vineethvr.com, regarding my startup journey, feel free to have a look :)

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Claude by Anthropicp/claudeChris Messina•

1d ago

Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

That's a lot of AGI, with some substantial firepower:

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.

From Coatue, who lead the round:

...what s changed since three months ago (the last round was only three months ago, believe it or not)?

Three things:

  1. We ve seen the shift from co-pilots that help make us more efficient to agents actually doing long-form work tasks on our behalf. This has meant an explosion in both productivity and ROI for customers.

  2. Anthropic introduced Mythos Preview, a whole new model class that demonstrates a step change in intelligence level as seen in the METR chart below. It not only shows dramatic improvement to coding and long-running agents, it is also defining a new frontier for security.

  3. And finally > use cases spreading from coding to everything else.

Nika•

1mo ago

Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?

  1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

  2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

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