Managing Partner @Saga_Ventures Profound, Mercury, Anduril, Fleetworks, Owner, Stand, Hadrian, Varda, Terrafirma, Monaco. Former CRO Flexport. Growth cures all.
Joined January 2011
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Jun 12
I’m actually fine with this framing. I don’t think a random 11 million American households could work together to build SpaceX. We’re getting a bargain.
Jun 12
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
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Jun 12
Over the past 8 weeks, we've seen Agents usage 16x on @tryprofound.
40,000 hours of manual work now back in the hands of our customers... and we just launched our latest one yesterday at Zero Click NY.
Learn more at our webinar on June 17th →
tryprofound.com/resources/we…
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Jun 10
Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99% accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.
We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.
While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.
So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.
When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.
In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.
Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99% quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.
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Jun 10
A few more words about why solar battery power plants, and why now.
A few things have aligned to make off-grid power plant operations possible at a 99.9% reliability while only using solar battery storage.
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Jun 9
I don’t know how they released this so fast
Jun 9
Anthropic released Fable (Mythos) earlier today.
Already available for use within @tryprofound Agents
tryprofound.com/blog/claude-…
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Jun 8
Flexport is an endlessly fun thing to sell:
Infinite deal size and variation
See inside the worlds great companies
Guided tours of historical sites by @typesfast if you make Presidents Club
Jun 8
Flexport is hiring salespeople in the US, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Singapore, China, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia and probably somewhere else I forgot
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Jun 5
We recently launched a course on how to become a marketing engineer. Feel free to check it out:
university.tryprofound.com/c…
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Jun 4
The Codegen market is adding $5B/month. Marketing will be the next biggest market as measured by new dollars created
Jun 4
The first Marketing Engineer job board is now live: marketingengineer.jobs
"Marketing Engineer jobs" became a breakout Google Search term after we introduced this new role.
@Google already hired their first Marketing Engineer, and companies like @Cloudflare, @tryramp, @getserval, and @DistroKid are hiring for the same or similar role.
Interested in posting an opening to our job board? There's a link at the top of the page to submit your role.
This Saturday, some of the world's best builders compete at the first Marketing Engineering Hackathon at @tryprofound's HQ in NYC.
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Jun 3
The Trump administration just took massive positive steps to crack down on the tariff fraud I’ve been ranting about for the last year. Credit where it’s due this is great policy.
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May 26
Self recommending.
My first interview with Ryan Petersen (@typesfast), Founder of Flexport.
0:03 Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy
2:29 The explosion in tariff fraud
8:58 The Dutch East India Company
11:20 History of global trade
14:39 1,000x spice markup
17:53 The British East India Company
24:02 How the British got 20% of China addicted to opium
27:44 The Forbes family & opium trade
30:40 Jewish trading networks
37:33 It’s illegal to criticize the King of Thailand
38:58 Strait of Hormuz
45:58 Maritime chokepoints
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May 22
Flexport will end up being one of the most important companies
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May 12
Sam is the ultimate class act and it’s a joy to see him win this thoroughly.
May 12
We're thrilled to have Jack Altman @jaltma joining the board.
In addition to @benchmark , @foundersfund , and @humancapital , we had participation from many of the greatest investors and people in the world like @jasonlk, @mantisvc, @saga_ventures, @antifund, @menloventures, @liquid2v, @a_starvc, @daftxyz and more.
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May 12
We're announcing our $50M Series B led by Benchmark. Founders Fund and Human Capital are tripling down in the round.
We gave Benchmark a sneak preview of our upcoming GA release. They saw the future of sales. We had a term sheet 2 hours later.
The future of sales is Monaco.
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The US federal budget is $7 trillion.
There are 535 in the Senate and Congress.
They collectively allocate that money.
Specifically: 7000/535 = 13 billion per official.
Which means AOC is a political billionaire.
She allocates far more than any market billionaire.
Indeed she allocates ten billion liquid, per year.
A market billionaire has one billion, illiquid, per life.
So: AOC spends 10-100X what a market billionaire has.
It's not even close.
She's right about one thing, though.
AOC didn't earn the tens of billions she spends.
The state taxed that money, by force.
May 7
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You can't earn a billion dollars.
Ilana Glazer: That's right.
AOC: You just can't earn that.
Glazer: That's exactly correct.
AOC: You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws.
Glazer: Yup.
AOC: You can pay people less than what they're worth.
Glazer: Yup.
AOC: But you can't earn that, right?
Glazer: That's right.
AOC: And so you have to create a myth that -- since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.
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May 7
I asked a large SpaceX investor why Elon would agree to be Dario’s landlord.
‘What I’ve learned in my short life is that Elon isn’t dumb’
What the heck did Anthropic have to agree to?
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May 7
I don’t think it could just be revenue. Maybe. But that wouldn’t be the most entertaining outcome.
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May 2
Forward Deployed Engineer is linguistic innovation driving actual innovation
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Apr 29
Adam Guild is an alien sent to earth to lift weights and help restaurant owners make more money (not in that order)
Apr 29
Introducing Grader: the world's first AI CMO for restaurants.
It’s helped us drive over $1 BILLION in sales for our customers.
Grader outperforms human marketing teams. See how:
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Apr 28
Someone I respect told me in the moment that missing Cognition at $2B was going to look stupid and painful.
The stars are really aligning for them to be right
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