Marell Evans

Building @ExceptionalCap. Ex: @SoftBank | Ex: @Okta | Supporter of @UMichFootball @UMICH

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

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[Coframe @coframe_ai]

We drove 410% conversion lift on @Replit's enterprise funnel, 2x-ing the number of demo requests. All in a matter of months.

"Coframe makes you feel like you have a team of 100 people. There's nothing on the market like it."

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[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

Story of my life!

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

Overheard

“My will is stronger then my circumstances”

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[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

One of my favorite tweets all time.

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

Summer is our edge @ExceptionalCap

We’re open 24/7 for business 🚀

Building something cool, please dm me!

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

I do think the go-to-market mafia is an interesting term and I think this will be the next set of archetypes of future founders.

[Chris Balestras @gtmba_]

AI-native GTM mafias right now:
(app-layer only, non dev tools or infra)

- Profound
- Harvey
- Legora
- Sierra
- Decagon
- Clay
- Listen Labs
- Basis
- Rogo
- Granola

who else am I missing?

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

Absolutely fascinating to see what's happening in robotics right now.

I'll never forget the several years I worked at SoftBank Robotics. It was one of the most enjoyable years of my career. @SB_Robotics

Now, seeing robotics on the verge of a "ChatGPT" moment is fascinating.

[𝐀𝐆 @AGkorthos]

The current generation of humanoid and humanoid-adjacent robots is producing some great designs.

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

USA USA USA 🇺🇸 ⚽️

[Ksenia Moskalenko @kseniam0s]

You don't need 100 VC meetings. You need the right 20. These pre-seed funds write $250-$500K+ first checks:

- @behind_genius (San Francisco, CA)
- @WorklifeVC (San Francisco, CA)
- @yonderventures (Austin, TX)
- @TampaBayVenture (Tampa, FL)
- @ExceptionalCap (San Francisco, CA)
- @Boldstartvc (Miami, FL)
- @BoostVC (San Mateo, CA)
- @heavybit (San Francisco, CA)
- @tworoadsvc (Los Angeles, CA)
- @ZealVC (Washington, DC)
- @ParkRangersCap (New York, NY)

P.S. Fundraising? DocSend is a folder dump. @ThePageform is a narrative data room. Your story deserves to be told.

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

Big congrats to an incredible human @chamath 💪🏽

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

We raised a $135M Series A!

8090’s Series A was led by Salesforce Ventures and joined by WNDR, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, and LAUNCH.

We also had the support of a group of esteemed angels including Nikesh Arora, Cliff Robbins, Adam D’Angelo, Shyam Ravindran, Abhi Arun, and Thomas Laffont.

We’re grateful for their support. It validates 8090’s mission and traction so far, but mostly it accelerates the work ahead.

The capital will go to two places. The first is hiring more people, because the demand we have is accelerating rapidly. The second is investing in the compute and infrastructure needed to keep delivering our solutions at high quality and reliability.

8090 works with the biggest, hardest, most demanding customers in the most regulated industries: healthcare, insurance, life sciences, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, financial services, and the United States government. We help them win by using our AI-enabled Software Factory to design and build entire new systems, refactor old ones, and find and accelerate their edge.

Our view is that as Software Factory is used more and more to do mission-critical work inside industries with the least tolerance for error and the most oversight, it will be used to bring transparency, consistency and control to work everywhere.

And as we expand the potential of the biggest organizations, we are also building a playbook and a series of network effects into Software Factory that will be valuable to everyone, from SMBs to solo founders.

With much gratitude, back to work…

PS - A note on why I am doing this as CEO, rather than from the board.

This is one of those rare moments when the technological ground is moving so ferociously underneath all of us that the decisions made in the next few years will set the stage for the next twenty.

AI can be the grand equalizer. It is the thing that can give everybody a shot, and I would like to help it achieve that potential. Since I left Facebook, I was waiting for a moment like this to return to a full-time operating role. I was a demanding manager back then, but I felt I had no choice given how powerful and undeniable what we were building was. I am convinced that what we are building now is even more important, so there was no decision to make except to be all in.

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

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[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

Heard about a venture fund where one of the General Partners stopped investing completely to focus on building internal AI tools. Strong belief that the way VCs source, diligence and support founders will be upended. Seems a tad extreme but I also like it.

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

Very few founders articulate their product vision and technical clarity better than @gauri__gupta.

[Gauri Gupta @gauri__gupta]

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[Gauri Gupta @gauri__gupta]

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[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

Leaders of the future @karimatiyeh 🚀

[Karim Atiyeh @karimatiyeh]

Eric and I have worked as a team for the past 12 years. This only makes it formal.
Strategy decisions are increasingly technology and systems-design decisions, and we want the company built around that reality.

Stepping in as CTO is @rahulgs. Rahul's superpower is being right early. He spots the bet worth making while everyone else is still forming an opinion. A lot of Ramp's best decisions trace back to that instinct, and now it's pointed at the whole technical org.

@HamidDadkhah3 is taking on a new role as Head of Engineering. Hamid cares about what the customer actually achieved, not what we shipped, and he moves things over the line without waiting to be asked twice. Engineering orgs are supposed to slow down as they grow. Hamid takes that as a personal challenge.

Speed compounds. What used to take a year takes < 1 month now. Glad to have these two running it.

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

@easyJet meet @Starlink

@Starlink meet @easyJet

Thanks guys.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

First Southwest Airlines flight with Starlink!

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

Am I the only human who likes Microsoft Outlook?

[Marell Evans @Marell_Evans]

You know, I was thinking about this internally, and I think the startup world should give a big kudos to @winstonweinberg.

Why?

He really doesn't have to partner with any company at the inception level. He could literally just wait it out for a few months or a few years until the company displays some product-market fit. In fact, the larger risk is on his side, but the dude seems to have a ton of intellectual curiosity.

He's always practicing intrapreneurship inside of Harvey, and I think that's why he will continue to outperform his competitors.

I think it's really dope, and more AI-native CEOs should evaluate new companies over 30-, 60-, or 90-day periods.

[brandon wang ✈️ icml @fluorane]

so @appliedcompute @trajectorylabs and now @EngramLab are all partnering with harvey? is it that hard to find a company with both an interesting nontrivial dataset and the money to pay for a custom posttrain?