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Josh Elman is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He backed Discord and Musical.ly at Greylock and led product at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Robinhood. He posted this as a thread of four tweets, which reads here as one.

Josh Elman 1 Sep 2026

Been thinking about “pivots” today.

Many of the best companies I have been lucky enough to get involved with are pivots.

Fates Forever (game) -> Discord
Cicada (education) -> Musical.ly
Fanbase (sports fans) -> Nextdoor
Odeo (podcasts) -> Twitter

These are all great outcomes and durable companies.

In each case a strong team formed and built something together. It was an interesting and strong product but didn’t catch on.

Instead of giving up, the teams kept going. Decided to find something new. Follow new threads.

In the case of each of the pivots, they immediately could sense the difference and the product started engaging users. Communities formed. Retention persisted.

Because they had done the first, they were better off the second time and knew to lean in

So if you don’t get it all right in your first product, don’t give up. If you have a great team together, lean in to what you like, what you have learned, and go for something new. You’ll know when you know.

And I feel lucky to have been part of these journeys

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Akash Radadiya runs Clay Club Surat, the Surat chapter of Clay's GTM community. This is his thank-you after its first events.

Akash Radadiya 1h

when life throws Clay at you, make it a club & turn it into a clay [club] surat.

to the GTMers of surat, a huge thanks for embraching this community. 🫶

this is thankspamming post, so bear(or bull!) with me.

first of all the reason of kickstart - Gaurav & Veeral. they acted as silent supporters, kinda batmen. the initial push that gave the initiative the nitro booster.

Super host Piyush for joining hands from day one even without meeting ever before. Nency for bringing all her youth energy & wisdom. Smit for being that calm vro!

our abvove & beyond volunteer (assistanto manager) Vijesh & Vraj Chaubal. super thanks to Unaish for helping us run the smoother operations in the first event.

to all the Surati participants who attended the events & making this place worth coming back to. to all the participants who traveled to surat to learn & share. 👾

to all the speakers Snehal, Mehul, Nishant, Varun, Neel & Sahil for sparing time for this infant community.

a HUGE thanks to everyone from clay education/community team because of whose direct/indirect support, we were able to keep doing this: Izzy, Siya, Yash, Munnawar, Owen & Shriya Nevatia.

'shat shat koti pranam' to all the venues who opened their space for us - Aureate Labs, Yanolja Cloud Solution, Wizcoder AI Labs & WebContrive | Shopify Plus Partner Agency

to local communities that gave us their unwavering support: Manoj - eChai Ventures & Gopal - Surat IT BDM Community

and, to all the clay communities across the world doing awesome things which we're not even remotely close to.

and sincere apologies at any given point of time, we were unable to meet your expectations. we'll keep getting better!

onwards & upwards! 🫡

p.s.: if i've missed on tagging you by any chance, feel free to self-tag in comments. 😜
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Ronith Kandallu founded Interface Club in San Francisco. He interned at Apple, where he proposed and prototyped the interactive widgets Apple later shipped and worked on bringing widgets to visionOS, and his first product was Iris, a macOS app for working alongside AI. Buoy is the company's iOS assistant, and what separates it from one that calls APIs is that it drives a full browser and computer underneath, so it works on sites that have no API to call, and it keeps running scheduled tasks with the app closed. Buoy is not new today: it has been on a waitlist handing out TestFlight invites, and it is not on the App Store. What this post adds is the sign-in. An agent that works a site the way you do has to be logged in as you first, and the claim here is that the password reaches neither the agent, the chat nor the logs, on any site and any sign-in pattern. The post shows it working rather than saying how.

Ronith Kandallu 9h

We built the most secure, simple way to sign an agent into websites from your phone.

The agent never receives your password. Not in the chat, not in the logs.

This works across all sites, and any sign in patterns.
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Shengkun Ye co-founded Monid in San Francisco with Feiyou Guo, after working at Founders Inc, TabaPay and WeChat. OpenRouter gives a developer one account and one key across every AI model; Monid is that for the tools an agent calls rather than the models it thinks with. Its registry lists over 1,700 tools from 55 providers, and an agent asks what is available for a job, picks by fit and price, runs it with no sign-up, and is billed about a tenth of a cent for that one call, out of a single balance. Monid is not new today: it launched in April 2026 and again as 2.0 in May. What this post adds is the raise and the 4 million calls.

Shengkun Ye 14h

We just killed…everything.

Introducing Monid, the OpenRouter for agent tools.

Today we crossed 4M agent transactions. And raised a $2.1M pre-seed to kill every subscription in the world.

Your agents can now:

> discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime
> one connection to 1,800 APIs: SEO, leads, search, ecommerce, stocks, video/image/music/3D gen, private company data
> all pay per call, 0 subscriptions

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