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to uh you know basically you know he dropped out of his phd uh i quit my job and we started factory uh that's how fast you could build something that right was different what what was that conversation yeah like how did you guys have that conviction in seven days where you're like let's do this i i think that there there's so much to it you know i i he likes to call it intellectual love at first sight i think i agree with that uh we we knew each other in undergrad very lightly

Um, uh, you know, Matan and I, and I think that the, the thing that was nice is because of undergrad, you know, you sort of knew, we knew each other, we had social circle overlap, um, but we weren't actually very good friends.

We like barely, barely had chatted.

And I think that it came at a really serendipitous moment where he was basically, uh, you know, had basically kind of stopped doing his work as a physics PhD was transitioning towards AI and very interested in AI research.

Um,

I had built out a bunch of these prototypes for, you know, while loop LLMs.

I thought it was going to start a company with this other person and around like finance AI.

And interestingly enough, the the turns out when you're trying to build a finance agent,

you really need to build like a Python AI agent.

And so having a system that can write Python and execute it in a loop very quickly makes you realize, well, maybe there's some adjustments that can be made to make this just general software development.

And so when we joined together and we spent that week basically hacking and putting it together to a point that made it more general,

It became clear that he was very convicted, that I was very convicted, and then a healthy sprinkle of, you know, we're both young and, you know, you only have a couple shots on goal when you're in the early days.

I think that's actually, in retrospect, completely untrue.

I think you have infinite shots on goal.

But, you know, at the time, it felt like, oh, we have to do it.

It's do or die.

When you say droids...

You know, I think that this is probably the most interesting question is like what what actually is a droid?

You know, and for us, there is a lot of work that we put into because it's changed a lot.

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