🌆 I'm going to be in DC for Antithesis Bugbash conference on Wed. April 2nd! ⚒️ While in town, I'd love to meet up with the local developer community. If you're an investor, founder or practitioner focused on cloud, data or ML infrastructure and have time for a coffee, let's

🧠 This Week in Enterprise Conversations at Work-Bench: Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a hot topic among data and ML practitioners. In my recent conversations, I'm seeing both real enthusiasm about what it could do and practical concerns about how to actually

Here for biggest bash of the year Antithesis #BugBash2025 🌸🏙️

Last week I hosted another cofounders.nyc event and it was a blast! People joined from companies like Anthropic , Palantir, Ramp, Datadog, Inc., Decagon, and many more. So far, community members have already: 🤝 Met their cofounders (both technical &

One way to think about application <> infrastructure cycles is Applications are the demand side that “demands” infra — in the times where a new technological seam opens up, many at the frontier experiment and try to build new things. The demand outstrips the supply. Almost

🚨 Dropping soon: Two new open source projects to spot bugs, misconfigs & other pitfalls — before they bite. Host: Kelsey Hightower + Tony Meehan. 🧠 No pitch. No slides. Just code, Q&A, and instant repo access. ✅ Tricks you can use today. Be first in. #reliability

🚨 Big news: We’ve raised $160M for Work-Bench Fund IV to back Seed-stage founders with massive enterprise ambitions. Enterprise is in our DNA and with Fund IV, we’re quadrupling down.👇

Grant Miller Ohhh nice! Some suggestions: - Robert Ross (FireHydrant) - Jacob Moshenko (authzed) - Donny Greenberg (Runhouse) - Yevgeny Pats (CloudQuery) - Lyndon Brown (Prequel.dev) - 🌍 Vlad A. Ionescu (Earthly Technologies) - Shipyard All would be awesome on the show 😎

Enterprise AI can’t just dazzle in demos - it has to deliver in production. Nowhere is this truer than in Financial Services. That’s why at Work-Bench we’re thrilled to lead the $6M Seed in Artian AI. AI agents. Built for mission-critical finance workflows.

Thrilled to collaborate with Priyanka Somrah on a new monthly initiative at Work-Bench - The State of Agentic Systems! Every month, we'll share some of most interesting things we're seeing in the agentic infra universe, from research papers and blog posts to launches. It's a privilege

Turns out this generation of AI startups is very bi-coastal, leveraging the best of SF *and* NYC, often from very early on (seed) Now, if the answer to “SF or NYC?” is “both”, what are we going to argue about on this app

New form of leverage: not just doing a piece of work, but creating the underlying playbook such that a web of agents can complete it at scale. If the magic of code is write once, distribute infinitely, this enables a similar dynamic. Unlocking “zero marginal cost of doing”

How we Work-Bench are thinking about the future of the AI application layer, given recent moves by Cursor and Cognition in building their own models. If you’re building a full-stack application company, would love to hear from you! cc Daniel Chesley

History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes…especially in enterprise software Hosting an Enterprise Software Trivia Night with Shreya Shekhar on December 1st in SF! If you’re curious about how the iconic software companies were built & enjoy studying the greats, you’ll love this event.

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