Bye bye Tableau 👋 The Swedish SaaS pirates are here. Tableau is a business intelligence tool owned by Salesforce. For years it was part of how we worked at Voi. In the beginning it felt powerful, but over time it turned into what many legacy SaaS tools become: expensive, clunky and slow. Every ad hoc request ended up in an analyst backlog. Local teams across our 100 plus cities were left waiting for insights, costs kept going up and speed disappeared. So we ripped it out. The direct savings are hundreds of thousands of euros in licenses. The indirect savings are even bigger since analysts can now focus on high impact work instead of repetitive reporting. The biggest shift is speed. What once took weeks now happens in seconds. Here is how we made it possible: 1. We fixed the foundations. Years of work on data governance. Every metric has an owner, quality checks, semantics and definitions. Everyone in the company knows what a number means. With that in place, self serve became possible, which is essential when local teams in 100 plus cities need the right data at the right time. 2. We defined what we need, not what we paid for. A single source of truth, real time data streaming and self serve for non technical users. Analysts no longer spend their days on small one off requests. 3. We used LLMs as the bridge. Together with a design partner we built a UI that supports continuous business intelligence, and we created an AI data analyst that lives inside Slack and Sheets. LLMs translate natural language into SQL, query the warehouse and return insights or visuals in natural language again. This step is what unlocked true self serve at scale. But LLMs alone are not enough. In an enterprise setting you need strict guidelines and guardrails. Without governance you risk inconsistent answers, wrong definitions or even compliance issues. The combination of solid data governance with the power of LLMs is what makes this work. The results are clear: 1. Millions saved on SaaS and labor 2. One source of truth for all key metrics 3. Self serve for everyone in the company within clear constraints 4. Up to 100x faster time to insight and decision making LLMs made this shift possible. Strong governance made it safe. RIP Tableau. And it will not be the last legacy SaaS tool we replace. Long live the Swedish SaaS pirates.

Internal software is having a quiet revolution. For decades, the dream was that anyone could build the tools they needed. The reality is clunky no-code, brittle spreadsheets, and endless queues for engineering. That’s changing fast. Here’s why 🧵

Introducing the new Rork Agent for mobile apps ・90% less errors with error auto-fixes ・New powerful agentic tools ・10x smarter with best practices from Claude Code ・Produces the best UI – using both GPT-5 & Sonnet 4 The best agent for mobile apps is here 👇

GPT-5 is now in Rork. And it’s incredible. → 190% better than Claude 4 on Rork’s mobile app benchmark → Better at reasoning/logic → Makes very beautiful UIs Try it now in Rork. Let us know what you think! And stay tuned. We're not finished. An even bigger update is coming soon 👀

GPT 5 will be something else for builders!

You should host an event with Vercel in Europe!

In this investing cycle, it’s almost as if you have to take all your “lessons from the last 10 years of investing in old versions of these new ideas” and throw them in the trash if you want to be part of the generational winners. The beauty and painful part of this industry is that anyone and anything becomes obsolete quickly.

Today is all that matters. Every day I wake up grateful to God for the opportunity to compete and the chance to give my all in whatever I choose to pursue. Giving your all doesn’t guarantee success. The odds are slim, but it’s the only shot you have. Anything less guarantees failure. I’m entitled to nothing, and each day I have to show up and earn it. Every loss carries a lesson, and every win is no guarantee you’ll be there again. Get complacent and someone else will take it. “Somewhere out there, someone is working harder, relentlessly training while you’re not. And when you meet, they will win.” There’s no single approach that will get you there. You can be loud or quiet, thoughtful or aggressive. Every strategy has its merits. No one person has all the answers. It comes down to trusting your own strategy and playing to your strengths, while always learning what you can from others. I’ve found that I’ve learned the most from people I didn’t expect, and the ones I put on a pedestal rarely lived up to the expectations. Block out the noise and understand that not everything will apply to you. What worked for someone else before might not work for you now. Never trust people who speak about the future in absolutes. It’s always a red flag. No one truly knows. Your opportunity comes down to NOW. What’s happening NOW? What can you do NOW? Your future will be built on what you do today.

Every week, I see flashy demos raising millions of dollars. But no one talks about what happens beyond the demo. Most AI companies die in the gap between "wow" and "works." The demo works because: - The use case was cherry picked - Controlled environments - Dummy or no real user data - Zero edge cases - Almost perfect conditions for the demo In reality, production requires: - Data governance and security - Access control and permissions - Error handling and observability - Integration with legacy systems - Compliance with regulations - Reliability and uptime!! The gap is not in the models because they already pack powerful enough capabilities. The gap is real software engineering. You can't vibe-code your way through enterprise security. You can't prompt your way past compliance. You can't demo away production complexity. This is why most AI pilots never scale. Teams that understand this gap will build systems that work reliably even when no one is looking! That's where the real opportunity is.

Today, Tako announces a $18 million Series A to reinvent payroll with AI agents, led by @RibbitCapital Twelve months ago, we came out of stealth to rebuild payroll and tackle an invisible problem that affects HR, Finance, and ultimately lands on the CEO’s desk. Today, Tako is already running payroll and people operations for some of the fastest‑growing companies in Brazil, like Warren, Tractian, and Stark Bank. 📈