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Startup accelerator — seed funding, validation, and continued investment support throughout Whatnot's growth

"We went through Y Combinator. We went up to San Francisco to go to Y Combinator. They bet on us many times throughout our journey. When the business started to take off, they were like tremendously helpful and helped put in more money into the business ahea..."

Grant Lafontaine

Reducing founder loneliness, building peer network, learning from experienced founders, avoiding repeated mistakes

"Starting a company is a really lonely experience. Just having a set of peers — even though we did it during the pandemic — just talking to Jared and five other groups of founders every week really helped you feel less lonely. And of course the network was j..."

Jeffrey Morgan

Grocery shopping and delivery

"I already for the most part stopped shopping. I I do Instacart all the time."

Luis J. Gomez

"I've got agents ordering on Amazon, ordering on Instacart. If I'm on the Instacart app trying to put like not five bananas, four bananas, I ask myself can my agents do this?"

Jesse Genet

Giving Hermes agents their own email address for autonomous email outreach campaigns

"I use agent card, agent mail, agent phone, and Composio. The same way we use Gmail for ourselves, our agents need their own email. Give it an email via agent mail and have it do the email outreach."

Nick Vasilescu

Providing dedicated email addresses for AI agents

"I'm starting to use Agent Mail a little bit more, which is a cool YC startup that allows your agent to have an email address. But, I think that's important."

Ryan Carson