Matt MacInnis

Big-time Mucky Muck at Rippling

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

Today, we launched @Rippling Automated Compliance, starting with SOC 2.

We have a unique advantage here: we aren't telling you how to fix your stack, because we ARE your stack. device management, identity and access management, HR, performance management...

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

This is literally true.

[sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin]

The thing Bernie misses? With taxes in CA the public already does get 50% of Anthropic and OpenAI...

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

I hope your bill is a constitutional amendment.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

@DanielEKaufman @Rippling If only there were a national database of performance reviews to tap into. 🇨🇳

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

Tonight, I'm having dinner with a bunch of high-performing @Rippling team members (something we do every year). So I asked Rippling AI to give me a dossier on everyone I'm seated with, and the quality of this output makes me giddy...

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

omg yes, tthis is tthe soluttion!

[Brandon Carl @brandonjcarl]

Earnings Before Tokens

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

@parkerconrad Now you can be the CEO you always wanted to be, Parker!!! Engaged and encouraging! FINALLY

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

@sanderbuitelaar @Rippling We should probably make it a built-in skill for Rippling AI

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

@koylanai @Rippling Too busy shipping!!! (but yes you're right, will fix)

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

The system totally understands where to find the data, what it means, what I'm allowed to see (and not), and... just works.

And this is already available to every Rippling customer today. It's crazy to me that we're still tolerating vaporware marketing around AI...

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

And one more:

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

@adilmania @siliconmania @Rippling I thought SOC-2 was naturally a part of pop culture

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

Many people are saying that this approach could work.

[Ronak Malde @rronak_]

Today, @MichaelElabd, @QuantumArjun, and I are excited to announce Trajectory.

We are a research lab and product company building the platform for Continual Learning.

Our platform unlocks the signal already sitting in product usage, so companies can continuously post-train large-scale agentic models that outperform the frontier. @trajectorylabs

We’ve raised $15M from @Conviction, @BessemerVP, @radicalvcfund, @jeffdean, @drfeifei and more.

We’re partnering with some of the best AI-native companies: @ClayRunHQ @Harvey, @DecagonAI, @mercor_ai, @RogoAI to power their agentic systems, some of which we are already in production with.

We’ve brought together a world class research team from DeepMind, OpenAI, Apple, Meta Superintelligence, Amazon AGI, Scale AI, and an elite product team from Stripe and Figma.

AI will never again start on day one. Every correction, every retry, every edit will make products smarter. This is Continual Learning.

[Feross @feross]

Today is a big day for @SocketSecurity. We just raised a $60M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by @ThriveCapital with participation from @a16z, @AbstractVC, and @CapitalOne Ventures. Total funding is now $125M.

Four years ago, we started Socket because open source dependencies were flowing into production faster than anyone could vet them. AI has massively accelerated that. Code is being written, shipped, and deployed before any human reads it. Security has to operate at that same speed.

One data point from Thrive's diligence that I keep coming back to: they first discovered Socket because @cursor_ai, @OpenAI, and @AnthropicAI all independently told them it was the most important security tool they'd adopted for AI-driven development. Three of the most sophisticated AI companies converging on the same vendor unprompted.

Since our Series B, Socket has grown to more than 20,000 organizations, protecting over 1.5 million repositories and blocking more than 1,000 supply chain attacks every week. The team is now over 100 people.

Three out of five FAANG companies are Socket customers. So are the companies building the most ambitious AI products: @AnthropicAI, @cursor_ai, @xai, @figma, @vercel, @Replit, @scale_AI, @GustoHQ, @Mercadolibre, and @cribl_io, alongside Fortune 100s in financial services and global media.

What we've shipped since the last round:

• Socket Firewall blocks malicious packages at install time, before they reach a developer's laptop or CI pipeline. Free for everyone.

• Reachability analysis via our acquisition of Coana, eliminating 50-80% of irrelevant vulnerability alerts by focusing only on CVEs that are actually exploitable.

• Socket Certified Patches for remediating exploitable CVEs in seconds without waiting on upstream maintainers.

• Coverage extending to browser extensions, editor extensions, MCP servers, and AI tools via our acquisition of @secureannex.

When the Axios compromise hit, our detection systems flagged the malicious dependency within six minutes. Within 24 hours, more than 2,000 organizations onboarded to Socket to block it.

Where the funding goes: deeper investment in Firewall, massively expanding Certified Patches, moving protection closer to every point of install across the developer toolchain, and new product launches pushing Socket into a category we haven't entered before.

We're hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, and threat intel.

❤️ Thank you to our customers, investors, and the open-source community for your support. Together, we’re making software safer for everyone.

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

I miss the days of payrollmaxxing

[Sam Altman @sama]

i am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build.

openai offered to invest $2M in tokens into every startup in the current yc batch.

happy building!

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

NOT DEAD!!

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Quick update: not dead.

$FIG Q1 results:

→ 46% YoY revenue growth, accelerating for the 2nd straight quarter
→ Net Dollar Retention Rate increased to 139%, our highest rate in over two years
→ Raising 2026 revenue guidance for the year

Design matters more than ever.

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

If you send me LLMslop messages, I am going to put my reply through my "MAX LLMSLOP" filter before I send it to you.

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

omg, she wants all upside and no downside 😅

all winners, no losers

all sweet, no salty

that is not how the universe works

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.

Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.

Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model.

Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole.

Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

This poisonous mindset is creating a wave of young right-wingers. It's breathtaking.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”