Abhi Aiyer of Mastra on raising from 120+ builders and the power of community

In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Abhi Aiyer, CTO and co-founder of Mastra, talks about the power of community and explains why they raised their seed round from 120+ founders. He also gets into how making moves beats perfect execution and his hiring process. Lastly, Abhi shares why TypeScript is winning the AI war and how education became their secret weapon.Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-abhi-aiyer-mastra00:00 Introduction and birthday celebration00:49 TypeScript AI Conf and major announcements02:53 Education as a pillar for framework adoption04:30 Converting open source to paid customers06:55 Optimizing onboarding and developer experience08:45 Handling user feedback and criticism09:51 Moving fast in the AI wave and the pressure of getting ahead of the curve11:56 YC experience and the agents batch15:19 Why TypeScript for AI agents19:40 Why Mastra decided to do a coalition from builders (120+ people)22:23 Building culture through friendships25:25 The toughest part of being a founder and CTO27:54 Working in an uncertain environment and planning a roadmap31:49 The devtools community at SF32:48 Advice for new builders35:31 Hardest-earned founder lessons38:30 The YC revelation: location and community matters40:20 Mastra in five years41:13 Warm fuzzies: first agent in 5 minutes41:46 Getting started with MastraEvil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtoolsRecorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.comLinks:Mastra: https://mastra.aiAbhi Aiyer on X: https://x.com/abhiaiyerEvil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartiansVictoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en

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