Philippe Durix

Three and a half years after "Operating well – what I learned at Stripe" I have some updates: Startup Operating Principles https://lnkd.in/e5XYxf9S

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AI-native agencies are coming. YC says they’ll look like software companies — with software margins They’re right. AI removes manual work. Speeds up execution. Scales outcomes. But here’s what most people miss: When execution becomes abundant, creativity becomes scarce. And scarce = valuable. As highlighted in Why Creativity Will Matter Even More in an AI Age by Sir John Hegarty AI is a new canvas. It’s plumbing and poetry. At Multiply, we see this clearly: AI can generate. It can optimize. It can automate. But it cannot decide: → What’s the insight? → What’s the tension? → What’s the story worth telling? In a world where everyone has the same tools, the only unfair advantage is creative clarity. AI multiplies. Creativity decides what’s worth multiplying. That’s the future.

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If you ask us to tell you the BlockOps story, it’s quite simple. We were built with one goal in mind — to help builders building on-chain build faster. Because when you look closely, Web3 doesn’t have a builder problem. It doesn’t even have an idea problem. What it truly has is an infrastructure problem. Things take too long to set up. Reliability is never guaranteed. Scaling is harder than it should be. We wanted to fix that. It all began with Mission Control, our single dashboard that allows developers to deploy nodes across supported networks in just a few clicks. We wanted to take what used to be long, DevOps-heavy setup processes and make them fast, reliable, and accessible to any builder who simply wants to get started without the wait. Then came Telescope. Once builders began deploying, it became clear that visibility was the next big challenge. Infrastructure doesn’t always fail loudly; sometimes it fails quietly, and you can’t fix what you can’t see. Telescope gives builders full visibility into their infrastructure, providing real-time monitoring, performance tracking, and insights that help teams maintain uptime and stability with confidence. After that, we focused on our API and RPC services. Every blockchain product depends on data, and yet so many builders struggle with slow, inconsistent, or unreliable endpoints. We built our APIs and RPCs for speed, reliability, and scalability, ensuring that applications, wallets, and protocols always stay connected and responsive, no matter the load. Then we created Relay. Blockchain ecosystems evolve constantly, and builders need a way to stay in sync with the networks they depend on. Relay was built to deliver real-time blockchain updates, helping teams stay aligned with what’s happening on-chain the very moment it happens. It keeps the ecosystem alive, connected, and informed. Next came Pulsar. As teams grow and infrastructure scales across multiple environments, keeping everything stable becomes one of the hardest problems to solve. Pulsar ensures consistency across your entire network. It helps builders manage infrastructure at scale while maintaining the uptime and reliability that modern blockchain applications require. And finally, the Staking API. Staking is now a core feature for many blockchain products, but it’s often slowed down by complex validator setups and manual maintenance. We wanted to remove that friction. The Staking API allows builders to integrate staking directly into their products without worrying about downtime, configurations, or technical overhead. That is the BlockOps story. We build so that builders can build faster. We design for reliability, scalability, and uptime, because the future of blockchain will not be shaped by who has the most ideas, but by who can keep them running. blockops.network

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Today we’re launching GPT-5 — our most capable model yet for businesses and developers. It’s the smartest coding model we’ve ever built — state-of-the-art on real-world software engineering benchmarks and cutting tool-calling errors in half compared to other frontier models. Early partners are already putting it to work in production in the OpenAPI API: - GitHub is bringing GPT-5 to Copilot, empowering millions of developers with stronger reasoning across large codebases. - Amgen is exploring how GPT-5’s reasoning can accelerate discovery and improve decision-making in complex research environments. - Cursor has made GPT-5 the default for all new users — it catches deeply-hidden bugs, runs multi-turn background agents to completion, and is now their daily driver for scoping, planning, and end-to-end builds. - Lovable is using GPT-5 to help millions of users generate advanced applications from a single prompt and debug complex issues in large projects, excelling at reasoning over entire codebases. - BBVA reports it handled strategic tasks in hours that would have taken weeks, with standout speed and accuracy — even in Spanish. These stories capture what excites me most: GPT-5 is not just more intelligent, but more reliable, steerable, and adaptable to the unique workflows of every customer. Can’t wait to see what the wider developer community builds next. https://openai.com/gpt-5/

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🪄 Introducing StackOne CLI: What if you could fork a connector like you fork a repo? When Guillaume and I founded StackOne, we wanted to build the integration engine we never had This meant making the developer experience a first-class citizen of the platform ❌ Not: "You can build a connector if you want... but you need to go through 10 long steps, a visual builder that takes more time than coding, and learn a new coding language" ✅ Instead: "You need full control over how connectors work and the ability to ship custom native connectors. We've made a best-in-class experience for you to do so" This is now made possible using StackOne's CLI: # Download the full code of an existing connector from StackOne ⌨️ stackone pull --connector notion --profile Production # Run your connector locally ⌨️ stackone run --connector my-connector.connector.s1.yaml # Validate your new connector's YAML config ⌨️ stackone validate my-connector.connector.s1.yaml # Push to your StackOne environment ⌨️ stackone push my-connector.connector.s1.yaml --profile prod -- Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ehS4C2k5 Try it free: https://lnkd.in/eqJk-B6K

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SaaS News! Consio AI — Raised $3.3M Seed. Founded by Philippe Roireau and Martin Latrille. Builds an AI voice platform that automates high-intent e-commerce phone conversations. humans& — Raised $480M Seed at a $4.48B valuation. Founded by Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen HE, and Noah Goodman. Develops human-centric AI focused on collaboration, memory, and long-horizon reasoning. Playad — Raised $5.4M pre-Seed. Led by Jay Cho. Building a multi-agent AI marketing platform enabling interactive ad creation across image, video, and gaming formats. ALTEK AI — Raised €423K pre-Seed. Founded by Jon-Fredrik "Joffen" Hopland and Kristoffer S. Pedersen. Delivers autonomous AI agents for hotel operations across messaging, email, chat, and voice. Inferact — Raised $150M Seed at an $800M valuation. Led by Simon Mo. Created by the team behind vLLM, focused on fast, low-cost AI inference infrastructure. AiStrike — Raised $7M Seed. Founded by Nitin Agale. Offers agentic AI-driven cybersecurity for proactive, continuous threat defense. Yuki — Raised $6M Seed. Founded by Ido Arieli Noga and Amir Peres. Provides real-time AI data cost optimization for Snowflake, BigQuery, and Iceberg. Level3AI — Raised $13M Seed. Founded by Harry, Honghai Yu. Builds enterprise AI agents for customer service across voice, email, and chat. BreezAI — Raised $1.3M pre-Seed. Founded by Karim Malhas. Offers a no-code platform to deploy reliable real-time Voice AI workflows. Claim Health — Raised $4.4M Seed. Founded by Kevin Calcado and JJ Ram. Automates revenue operations for post-acute care providers using AI. Bolna (YC F25) — Raised $6.3M Seed. Founded by Maitreya Wagh and Prateek Sachan. Builds multilingual, human-like voice AI agents optimized for Indian markets. iMaintain — Raised £250K+ pre-Seed. Founded by Hannah Savagar MAAT and Adam stockwell. Delivers AI-driven predictive maintenance for manufacturers. LaunchLemonade🍋  — Raised $480K pre-Seed. Founded in 2024. Enables no-code creation and monetization of AI agents across 21+ models. Legato AI— Raised $7M Seed. Founded by Dana Rochman and Shlomit Tennenbaum. Enables no-code AI customization inside SaaS platforms. Dam Secure — Raised $4M Seed. Founded by Patrick Collins and Simon Harloff. Protects enterprises from vulnerabilities in AI-generated code. GeneralMind — Raised $12M pre-Seed. Founded by the Razor Group team. Builds an autonomous AI system to execute enterprise workflows end-to-end. KNOT Technologies — Raised $1M pre-Seed. Founded by Ahmed Abdalla and Hussein ElBendak. Uses AI to prevent fraud in ticketing and access control. ResquadAI AI — Raised $1.5M Seed. Founded by Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Jafaari. Automates technical hiring through an AI-driven recruitment SaaS. Atomic Insights — Raised $10M Seed. Founded in 2023. Automates money movement and payment workflows for RIAs and family offices.

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So we decided to rebuild Lancelot. And here’s why. When we started building Lancelot — a SaaS platform for freelancers to manage clients, projects, and even hire temporary teammates — we were excited and moved fast. But along the way, we realized some things: 👉 We didn’t plan well enough. 👉 We didn’t get input from actual freelancers. 👉 We were building quickly, but not necessarily right. So we made a tough call: to stop, restructure our team, and rebuild from the ground up. Painful? Yes. Necessary? Also yes. Because it’s better to fail small now than sink with the whole ship later. Here’s what we want to do differently this time: ✅ Talking directly with freelancers about their challenges ✅ Gathering real feedback before writing more code ✅ Designing a lean MVP that actually solves the problems freelancers face This isn’t a setback — it’s a reset. If you’re a freelancer (designer, developer, writer, VA, marketer, etc.): What’s the hardest part of managing your freelance business? What tools frustrate you the most right now? . Your insights could shape the next version of Lancelot. And to fellow founders: don’t be afraid to pause, rethink, and rebuild. Sometimes the bravest move is pressing reset. Also if you're a founder out there, what do you think of this move? What would you advice? What are your thoughts? We would really appreciate feedback. #Freelancers #FreelanceLife #SaaS #StartupJourney #Founders #Entrepreneurship #BuildInPublic

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