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Curated stories, every day
Olive curates a daily selection of stories described as the best you care about, aiming to help users be more interesting. The product appears to be an app experience with an emphasis on curated content.
An app-based content curation experience that delivers daily curated stories to users, with a focus on selecting 'the best stories you care about' and helping users be more interesting. The product is promoted via app store downloads and emphasizes a time-saving, quality-over-quantity approach to story consumption.
Who it’s for: Individuals seeking curated daily reading or storytelling content to stay informed and be more engaging in conversations.
funding mention (Y Combinator)
CEO of Olive. Previously built Fundsy—financial services (cards, payments, donations) platform for nonprofit fiscal sponsorship & operations. Former intern at Amazon (worked on internal HR tool) and JuiceMind (collaborative coding education product for schools). ex-Stanford.
CTO of Olive. Previously built internal tools used to service over 400,000 cardholders/year at Capital One. Also was a SWE intern at Campsite (workplace communication startup acq'd by Notion) and NASA (satellite data infra org). Co-founded Fundsy in 2020, helping people start and fundraise for grassroots community projects. UC Davis CS dropout.
Olive connects to your database and 3rd-party services and builds your internal tools for you in minutes.
Olive connects to a company's database and third-party services to automatically generate and deploy full-stack internal tools in minutes, based on user prompts. The product targets teams needing internal tools, aiming to reduce engineering time by automating tool creation and integration of data sources.

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