Founder and CEO of @Agency — previously built @Drift, @HubSpot, and @Performable. Invested in @Klaviyo, @Finix, @PostScriptIO, and dozens more.
Joined March 2008
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16 Oct 2024
Today’s the day. Introducing my new company, @Agency — backed by @Sequoia and Hubspot Ventures; with my friend and mentor @BHalligan on the Board. Enjoyed getting to talk with @MTemkin @TechCrunch about what we’re building.
agency.inc/
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Let’s go! Proud of you!
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Excited to be part of the team tackling our global efforts and to help spearhead our international investing alongside my partner @astrange!
We believe AI is the great equalizer. For the first time, billions of people can access PhD-level intelligence from a phone. Talent is more distributed than ever, and Silicon Valley is ultimately a state of mind.
We’re already seeing this shift play out. Great global companies are being born outside the U.S. and scaling faster than ever: ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, Mistral, Lovable, Decart, Manus, Sakana, Wonderful, and many others are just the beginning.
Our goal is simple: build a bridge between the United States and the world’s best founders, operators, and technologists — and partner with them to win globally.
We’ll also continue doubling down on immigrant founders in the U.S. through our Borderless network. Immigrants have founded or co-founded 59% of America’s privately held billion-dollar startups, including companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, Databricks, Stripe, Ramp, Safe Superintelligence, Anysphere, Vercel, and RunwayML.
The next generation of category-defining companies will be born anywhere and scale everywhere, and we want to be the partner of choice for the founders building them.
Read More on Ben Horowitz Blog Post:
a16z.com/a16zs-global-missio…
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Jun 3
From a 1BR apartment to $10.7M Seed Round lead by @generalcatalyst
What was GeoSpy is now Raven. We are turning the physical world into real-time search.
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If I had a nickel for every founder discovering u *can* work 7d/wk...
I love work & can do it anytime. A total workaholic, but it's unsustainable w/o breaks. It never works, ever.
Such founders either fail or later post learning to take breaks.
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“When you build software that doesn’t actually do anything for me and instead just demands that I do things for it, it’s just silly now." – @eliast
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Local agents want to become cloud agents.
Cloud agents want to become local agents.
We always want what we don’t have.
Apr 27
The terminal hasn’t changed much since the 1970s. What you do with it has.
Introducing Devin for Terminal: everything we learned building Devin, now as a local agent, available right in your shell.
And when your work outgrows your laptop, hand it off to the cloud.
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Apr 17
Boston’s a great place for a second hub for a tech company. Great sales and eng’g talent.
Apr 17
We officially opened Lovable’s first US office in Boston.
Boston felt like the right place for us to open an office because Massachusetts has a practical view of AI. It’s about using AI to solve real problems rather than just building the technology, which is something Gov. Maura Healey has spoken about clearly.
That’s why we started Lovable, to help more people turn ideas into software, products, companies, and real economic value.
PS, check out Gov. Healey rocking our Lovable socks.
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If you're on the job hunt, here's a wide variety of start-ups I'd look at:
Anthropic
Cursor
Conductor
Icon
Cognition
Clay
Harvey
General Counsel
Langchain
Agency
Profound
Factory
Juice box
Eleven labs
Matic robotics
Momentic
Reality defender
Chroma
Dust
Adaptive security
doppel
Open router
Physical intelligence
Decagon
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Mar 31
We just built the #1 tool every AI team wants.
Introducing @merge_api Gateway: LLM routing, fallback, cost guardrails, and security, all in one place.
Everyone gets $10 free LLM usage on us to try it out.
RT comment “Gateway” → we’ll double your credits.
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Mar 19
Valentin is from Junín, a small town in Argentina. He's one of the engineers I know with the best taste.
Listen to @_cassarino_'s story. Now working at @agency with @eliast.
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It's absolute insanity @Agency.
A week ago, we get rid of Cursor.
We all switch to Claude Code.
Now everyone is switching to Codex.
Today Cursor launches Automations.
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"We used to debate using tabs vs spaces in code we'd type out"
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CEOs what’s your commit history?
BREAKING: Stripe CEO @patrickc: "There's a reasonable chance that 2026 Q1 will be looked back upon as the first quarter of the singularity."
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Feb 26
Same @Agency. No more Cursor.
Feb 26
Today we announced we’re removing >90 Cursor seats because they haven’t had any use in two weeks
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What’s it going to be? Is @steipete starting a revolution.
Are we all going to shift to just one?
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From San Francisco to São Paulo to London, and from Stockholm to Tel Aviv to Singapore and many more, I’ve been grateful to spend time in these ecosystems be able to build a network where the sun never sets.
AI is the great equalizer. Most people now have access to PhD-level intelligence in their pocket, and ultimately, Silicon Valley is a state of mind. The question is: What are you going to do with this opportunity?
I’m certain that we will see more default global companies born abroad, and we are building a bridge between their ecosystems and Silicon Valley to help them win!
More exciting announcements to come soon
techcrunch.com/2026/02/16/ha…
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This is so true but so f^*%Ng hard before PMF since by definition everyone asks you for a million features.
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"Great companies don’t win by adding more. They win by making fewer things matter more."
- Nikesh Arora, CEO, Palo Alto Networks
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I’m starting to worry about Massachusetts
1. Biotech is way off from a few years ago
2. Only 1 of the top 50 ai companies are in MA
3. The Fed research funding cuts hitting MIT, Harvard, Whoi are brutal.
4. The millionaires tax is working in the short run, but I know a lot of wealthy folks preparing for a FL move.
5. A glut of empty condos
6. It’s not “cool” for young folks
7. It’s expensive as sh-t.
I honestly don’t think the MA/Boston govt can do that much about it as they are kind of macro issues. I give them big credit for working on building more housing and fixing the T, which will help.
I’m trying to help w HubSpot, partnering w WHOI, teaching at MIT. I’d like to help more. Specifically I’d like to encourage and help more ai and climate companies in the state. I think ai and climate should be our dual growth engines.
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