Elias Torres

Founder and CEO of @Agency — previously built @Drift, @HubSpot, and @Performable. Invested in @Klaviyo, @Finix, @PostScriptIO, and dozens more.

[Elias Torres @eliast]

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.

https://t.co/OXKpM5XNY9

[Daniel Heinen @heinenbros]

@generalcatalyst Special shout out to our angels @rauchg, @eliast, and @GundersonLaw for believing in us early.

[Daniel Heinen @heinenbros]

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.

🇺🇸

[Elias Torres @eliast]

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.

[Elias Torres @eliast]

@GadiBorovich @tomasholtz_ @AntigravitySF Sigue la fiesta!?

[Elias Torres @eliast]

@GadiBorovich What a great group of talented young entrepreneurs! I was in complete awe. Well done.

[Hard Skill Exchange @hardskillx]

“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

[Elias Torres @eliast]

Local agents want to become cloud agents.

Cloud agents want to become local agents.

We always want what we don’t have.

[Cognition @cognition]

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.

[Elias Torres @eliast]

We built our own background agent at @agency. It’s so much easier to keep track of the agents’ progress and when reviews are needed versus guidance.

A dev at Agency probably has tens of agents working at a time and needs help and feedback from other devs, making this attention problem almost impossible without Linear.

[Elias Torres @eliast]

@jasonlk @salesforce How is SFDC any better than a normal database? What does it provide to your agents that’s worth $22K? Curious.

Security?

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

Boston’s a great place for a second hub for a tech company. Great sales and eng’g talent.

[Techsaleshackz @techsaleshackz]

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

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

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.

[Gadi Borovich @GadiBorovich]

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.

[Elias Torres @eliast]

. @OpenAIDevs me since 5.4 released

[Elias Torres @eliast]

@jxnlco @agency moar

[Elias Torres @eliast]

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.

[Julien Bek @JulienBek]

https://t.co/hsKrbn1gEq

[Jason Bosco @jasonbosco]

"We used to debate using tabs vs spaces in code we'd type out"

[Elias Torres @eliast]

@GarrettLadley @medinism @agency How do you know about Notepad++

[Elias Torres @eliast]

Same @Agency. No more Cursor.

[Kyle Russell @kylebrussell]

Today we announced we’re removing >90 Cursor seats because they haven’t had any use in two weeks

[Elias Torres @eliast]

@shensi Dayum

[Elias Torres @eliast]

CEOs what’s your commit history?

[TBPN @tbpn]

BREAKING: Stripe CEO @patrickc: "There's a reasonable chance that 2026 Q1 will be looked back upon as the first quarter of the singularity."