making silly things
sf/ny/canada
Joined October 2018
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Ruby Wang retweeted
If you've put together a conference before, you know how much work goes into it.
For months, it’s hundreds of late-night emails, trackers, and spreadsheets. Booking dozens of speakers, then rebooking the ones who flake.
Chasing sponsors, approving badges, finalizing catering for hundreds of people, and building a minute-by-minute run of show that will inevitably get rewritten the night before.
And just when you think everything’s locked, the venue calls with one more question at 11 pm.
I’m so grateful to the @meetfibe team and our volunteer community for making the Outliers Summit happen.
See you all soon.
toronto is so full of talented people making cool things
met so many of them at proof of work last night by @itsjessyin and @designcompute_ 🫶
you guys are so inspiring what the heck.
i’ve been learning abt my culture + the history of chinese names lately. names hold so much significance for us that some parents work with "naming masters" to choose the characters
so i made a site that gives you one based on your name + tells you what each character means.
you can make your own here too :) rubysmwang.com/create-chines…
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hii, i'm ruby!
i'm 20, from toronto, study cs, and spent the last year in sf at two startups
a little more abt me:
> worked in growth/marketing, loveee a good guerrilla marketing stunt (once handed out 1,500 dunkin donuts for a conference 😆)
> hosted events w 400+ attendees! (i'll take any excuse to bring ppl together)
> currently very curious about consumer tech, creative marketing, and community
> trying to be braver about building more, experimenting with random ideas, and sharing them out loud
would love to find more ppl building, hosting events, or love sidequesting :)
Ruby Wang retweeted
Today we’re excited to announce we’ve raised a $7M seed round led by Wellington Management, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Pelion Venture Partners and multiple incredible investors and angels who share our vision for the future of customer experience.
A huge thank you to Sofia Chesnokova and @TFNBreakingNews for the exclusive feature.
A few years ago, my cofounder @avinashjoshi and I were working in the home services industry and saw the same problem again and again: great businesses losing customers because they couldn’t answer the phone fast enough or follow up to retain business.
These weren’t customer service issues, they were capacity issues. No amount of staffing or existing software integrations could fix that.
So we built @oncactusai , the AI platform for Home Services.
Cactus connects to the tools businesses already use and gives them an always-on AI assistant that can answer calls, book jobs, follow up with leads, and personalize every interaction all while learning from real customer data.
Our mission is to make world-class customer experience infrastructure accessible to every home service business from local HVAC companies to national brands.
We’re just getting started, but the results have been incredible. Businesses using Cactus are capturing more leads, responding 24/7, and scaling faster than ever.
Thank you to our customers, partners, advisors, and our remarkable team. We wouldn’t be here without you. - thank you for trusting us to build this.
And to the trades and service pros we’re building for: this one’s for you.
Big things are coming in 2026.
Onward and upward with 🌵.
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