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Nicolas Dessaigne

Y Combinator
@dessaigne
Co-founder of @algolia - Group partner at @ycombinator
San Francisco, CA
ycombinator.com
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    Nicolas Dessaigne
    Y Combinator
    @dessaigne
    Aug 15
    I sat with a founder recently who had just raised a good round. Almost immediately, he got slower. They had raised, and he felt they were supposed to behave like a much larger company: OKRs, a responsibilities matrix, quarterly planning, etc. But the team was still only a handful
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    Nicolas Dessaigne
    Y Combinator
    @dessaigne
    Aug 13
    Agents can look like they’re working even when they’ve failed. Lemma catches that before users do. Jerry and Cole are deeply technical and move absurdly fast. Huge congrats on the round @zjearbear, @colegawin_, and the whole @lemma_ team!
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    Jerry Zhang
    Lemma
    @zjearbear
    Aug 13
    Agents f*ck up. We raised a $2.3M pre-seed to warn you before it’s too late
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    Nicolas Dessaigne
    Y Combinator
    @dessaigne
    Aug 11
    Unsloth is one of my YC companies and the team is cracked. Their new open source desktop app lets you run and train models locally, then connect Codex or Claude Code to them. Super cool!
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    Unsloth AI
    @UnslothAI
    Aug 11
    Introducing Unsloth Desktop 🦥 The first desktop app to run and train models locally. • Open-source. Runs on Mac, Windows and Linux • Supports MLX, diffusion image/video, audio, GGUF • Connect Claude Code and Codex to local LLMs • 50% more accurate, self-healing tool calls +
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    Nicolas Dessaigne
    Y Combinator
    @dessaigne
    Jul 31
    Everyone is using AI to code, automate support, and make their product smarter. But very few are turning it on their own org. I recently caught up with a founder whose team has grown top-heavy. Revenue is good, but they’ve added layers of managers who spend most of their time
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    Nicolas Dessaigne
    Y Combinator
    @dessaigne
    Jul 24
    Reading a profile about yourself is a strange experience. You recognize the events, but sometimes you see the pattern for the first time. Over the past few weeks, @thomasyeddou spoke with me, @jlemoine_algo, @mwseibel and many others about Algolia's early days, moving to SF, my
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    Thomas Yeddou
    @thomasyeddou
    Jul 23
    June 29. It's 9pm at Station F, and I've been watching @dessaigne answer questions from the young entrepreneurs around him for the past two hours. He’s here for YC Startup School Paris, and I have to admit I feel relieved when I hear him say "Sorry, I have to go, I need to speak
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