Marc Laventure retweeted
So excited to share the latest version of Operate
We spent 18 months building a high-craft CRM and realized that wasn’t it. In a world of agents, the sales tool of record had to be rethought from the ground up.
· Long running durable agents: one per deal, one watching pipeline, and more. Specialized to your business, product, and competitive market.
· Collaborative with agents, people, and tools: Sales is a team game, and single-player Claude isn’t working.
· AI-native connectors: Bespoke MCP gateway for sales tools everyone uses like Outreach, Gong/Granola, CRMs, etc. Plus the ability to add that one-off tool that every team has.
· Memory as a first class consideration - Structured data is necessary but incomplete. Keep that in a CRM or data warehouse but let the nature of sales context flow freely.
· Traceability - data hygiene is already a problem. Ensure ops can observe agent changes, evals, tool calls, etc.
· Fire UI - Wrap it all up in the nicest GTM tool UI possible
We pivoted 8 weeks ago but spent the last decade preparing for this moment. We deeply believe in this future and we’re just got started.
We believe that software doesn’t close deals. You do.
Excited to introduce Operate, the collaborative AI tool built for frontier sales teams.
TLDR; Rethought from the ground up, we connect your whole sales stack (CRM, calls, inbox, and more) to surface where every deal stands and what’s next.
Sales leaders get a forecast they trust and don’t have to DM their reps on Slack for status updates and data hygiene issues. Sales reps can stay out of the CRM and the tedious toil of admin.
We’re working with growing sales teams (3-50 reps) on making AI actually effective for sales including mapping the pipeline, routing to agents/deterministic paths, implementing real workflows, and tracking goal progress.
If this resonates, sign up to the waitlist. If you are a good fit, the form will redirect so you can schedule a chat with one of our co-founders.
You're in a club.
Talking to attractive women.
Ordering drinks.
I'm on LinkedIn.
In one of 52 tabs, in one of 4 windows.
Connected to the CRM.
Inside a deal record.
In a pipeline stage that hasn't moved in 31 days.
Inside an email thread, forwarded inside another email thread.
Reply-all with their procurement, their legal, their security.
And me, who is also our procurement, legal, and security.
Order form v9 attached. Redlined.
Referencing the POC success criteria, which references the MSA, which references the DPA.
Reading the redlines, trying to understand why they ghosted.
Marc Laventure retweeted
I'm still in stealth, but I'm hiring!
Location: SF preferred, but remote in North American time zones is possible for exceptional candidates.
Open roles
- Founding Engineer: build stuff
- Founding Product Marketing Manager: grow stuff
We offer generous salary, equity, health care, and the opportunity to work with smart and kind people on meaningful problems to help advance the state of agents.
How to apply:
Email jobs @ 5d.tech with:
- LinkedIn / X / GitHub / Resume / Personal site / etc
- A description of the thing you've built you're most proud of
- Your current favorite product & why you like it
- Your all time favorite website
- A good meme
Marc Laventure retweeted
We’ve raised $85M for this moment.
Introducing Warp 2.0: The first AI Head of HR.
Every company is building AI to replace jobs. Warp is building AI to do the jobs no human should have to:
If you work in HR, I want you to spend time with the manager who needs help or building company culture people actually want to work at.
If you’re a founder, I want you to focus on signing clients or spending time with your family.
You shouldn’t have to figure out how to register state tax in California. You shouldn’t have to pay outrageous penalties because you don't know what a DE 9C is.
I want to make HR human again. Today, this is finally possible with the Warp Agent.
I’d love for you to see it in action: warp.co/agent
Marc Laventure retweeted
18 months ago, I went all in on studying biology. I started by building a lab in my apartment (worms!) and later joined one at UCSF.
Meanwhile, models were making advances in the virtual world, but in the lab — they fell short.
We started C5R to fix this. See more below!
Marc Laventure retweeted
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we’re excited to share that we’ve raised $20M (from Accel, Index, & Emergence) to build the 'ai-native Slack' you've all been craving
TLDR; ando is a team messaging platform built fresh, from the ground, up for a world where agents act as real collaborators alongside us.
we have teams using us across 15 countries, and spanning industries like software, financial services, real estate, & more
request access if any of this resonates 💌
forever grateful for the people i've been able to meet, there are a lot of kind, optimistic & generous people out there.
reach out!
Marc Laventure retweeted
If you're a context/harness engineer and think you could crush this interview, please DM me!
Hercules is pushing the frontier on coding agents. We have 500k+ users, tens of millions of revenue, and lots more to do
Marc Laventure retweeted
@warpdotco has an F1 car
they also chose to migrate to Scalar for SDKs
the migration covered 4 SDK surfaces without breaking existing integrations or asking customers to migrate
full story ↓
scalar.com/customers/warp
Marc Laventure retweeted
Inspired by @typesafeai , here is a Jev-compatible public API to play with
It runs a comparable open model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B), and just uses SGLang radix cache to preserve the prefill reuse / really fast parallel systemone generation - 64 tasks in <1s.
github.com/ekzhang/openjev-s…
Marc Laventure retweeted
Today, we are announcing our Series A and a new product: @raindrop_ai Simulations.
We've now raised $50m from @CRV and @lightspeedvp to protect the world from agent failures, big and small.
Marc Laventure retweeted
belief. backbone. heart. that’s Texas Fight. Hook em.
@TexasFootball @TexasLonghorns
Marc Laventure retweeted
NO. 4 TEXAS SHOCKS NO. 1 OHIO STATE WITH A 21-PT COMEBACK 😳
The Longhorns largest comeback since 2007 🤘
Marc Laventure retweeted
Well, it was inevitable we'd get here. Glad we got as far as we did. Now priority 0 is to make sure AI access and innovation proliferates as widely as possible. The upside is that the technology wants it that way. It refuses to be caged.
Marc Laventure retweeted
need a forward deployed engineer to help with your sdks, mcps or docs? hit up marc from scalar!
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Marc Laventure retweeted
with Stainless shutting down, a lot of teams are figuring out what comes next.
we’ve already migrated a dozen+ Stainless customers to Scalar with no breaking changes.
one of those migrations is below 👇
if you’re still working through your migration, happy to chat and help ❤️
🚨 @scalar is officially hiring a founding Sales team to better support our growth.
We are on track to >10x almost every metric across the board this year with no signs of slowing down and we need to scale our team up so I can spend more time working hands on with customers.
1 Solutions Engineer, 1 Account Executive & 2 SDRs. All in office in San Francisco, sitting next to me.
In the past few weeks alone we have signed a dozen + generational companies like @warpdotco, @profound all the way up to Fortune 100s all while crossing 30 million downloads a month.
Every one of those deals I ran end to end myself — first email to signed to onboarded.
We are looking to continue the founder led sales journey but with an in-person team.
Learn more below 👇
