We just raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation to build @daytonaio into the Agent Cloud.
@FirstMarkCap led the round, with all key existing investors and angels doubling down.
We're also thrilled to welcome the founders of some generational companies aboard, including @patrickc (Stripe), @tobi (Shopify), @AravSrinivas (Perplexity), @BrendanFoody (Mercor), @oliveur (Datadog), @adamdangelo (Quora) and @ericsyuan (Zoom)
We're a 35-person team. But that's about to change; we're hiring across the board, and we'd love for you to join us.
Agentic commerce is a mirage (part 4)
"Amazon has blocked Muse, Meta’s new personal agent, from accessing its platform.
Amazon and Walmart are motivated by very precise, very concrete direct and indirect financial incentives to resist surrendering the customer relationship to third-party shopping agents. Incentives matter: they are authoritative, and they are dominant. “New interaction paradigm” doesn’t, by default, override prevailing incentives even when it’s superior to the status quo; in the case of third-party agentic shopping, that new interaction paradigm is not superior to the status quo for retailers."
https://t.co/eLprF8Q6iJ
i love nature docs & i recently came across one that hit me super hard. turns out the labords chameleon’s life cycle is extremely short. they live only 4-5 months & immediately die after laying & burying their eggs (which is their only purpose)z
in the final moments their nervous system begins to fail as their brain loses control of skin cells, so random nerve firings cause the skin to randomly change colors which causes a ridiculous art as they slowly die. it’s like sort of a visualization of the brain’s final flickerings.
pristine example of nature’s beauty, tragedy, & brutality at the same time.
@ivanburazin Not necessarily - especially if you live of rented attention. Maybe I should be more specific: owned distribution is the king, all the rest really can’t be considered in the same line and possibly even less in future (attention can be part of it though).
kinda sad that social media pushes "build a SaaS" and "become an influencer" harder than any other path...
you could be learning so much about business and building real foundations by starting with a service-based one
a simple agency model, well executed, carries every component of entrepreneurship: selling, delivering, keeping clients, hiring, managing cash, and it builds a network that keeps opening doors after
best training i've found, it has helped me in every venture i've tried since