During the 12‑13 Aug 2026 X thread I highlighted the upcoming DeltaV Demo Day (Oct 6, Singapore) with 7 teams pitching to 50+ VCs, emphasized the non‑negotiable nature of weekly/monthly investor updates, advocated automating updates via DeltaV’s “agentic updates” feed API, and identified paying users as the sole reliable product‑validation signal.
Weekly/Monthly updates are extremely important. You should even send it to your community.
Software will not die. No, companies will not spin up their custom software for most functions just coz they can.
AI creates a crazy amount of leverage on software layer of the stack.
✅ paying users
❌ positive feedback
❌ friends saying this is a unicorn
❌ tweet went viral
❌ VCs are saying they like what i am building