@RogoAI is hiring product managers.
Intelligence is no longer the bottleneck for finance... harnessing it at the product layer is.
Please reach out :) - details & JDs below
Today, we’re announcing our $160 million Series D funding, led by @kleinerperkins, with participation from @sequoia, @ThriveCapital, @jpmorgan, and @khoslaventures.
35,000+ financial professionals. 250+ institutions. One platform, purpose-built for finance.
Thank you to our clients, our team, and our investors for their support as we continue building to raise the ceiling for what finance can accomplish.
We are introducing Felix.
Felix is a purpose-built agent for high finance, designed for long-running, complex workflows and capable of producing decks, models, and documents end-to-end.
Felix executes so you can focus where it matters.
I interviewed at @xai ~2 years ago. Went through all the rounds, but didn't implement a great LRU cache in the 3rd round so they told me to go work at X at the end lol
Introducing Solaris: the first multiplayer world model exploration effort in Minecraft. We’ve built a scalable data collection engine, a multiplayer video diffusion model architecture, and a multi-view consistency evaluation benchmark. [1/9]
@GabeStengel@RogoAI@sequoia Grateful. Excited.
Proud to be building at Rogo alongside an incredibly sharp team.
Few opportunities let you work on problems that meaningfully change how people reason, decide, and operate :)
We’re excited to announce @RogoAI's $75 million Series C led by @sequoia .
We're building AI that makes the best financial professionals smarter, faster, and more ambitious.
There’s a long road ahead and we’re grateful to our clients, team, and investors for their partnership as we set out to transform finance. https://t.co/Z1mLy3ARQY
Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table.
Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication.
Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.”
Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it.
The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks.
Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.
We're looking for 3 exceptional designers to grow the design team at Rogo
Brand Designer - visual design, brand systems, marketing assets
Product Designer - craft end-to-end UI/UX for our AI platform for bankers
Design Engineer - level up polish & delight across product, design system, and interactions
NYC in-office preferred
DM portfolio if you or someone you know is interested!