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For five decades, we have partnered with founders building enduring companies that make history.
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FULL INTERVIEW: Poetic Founder & CEO @markiewagner joins TBPN to discuss the company's $50M Series A, the "10,000 secret rules" that run businesses, and more. 2:23 - The 10,000 secret rules inside employees' heads 3:03 - Why AI needs to be at least 99.99% accurate 4:20 - Why
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00:15Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune - Kleiner Perkins reposted
Replying to @LM_Braswell and @PoeticHQLeigh Marie has been fighting by our side years before the company was even started. 5 years ago, we started talking about the idea that would eventually become Poetic. LMB's original blog post here on it as a relic of the past: leighmariebraswell.substack.com/p/startup-oppo… Over and over, she has - Kleiner Perkins reposted
At a moment when companies are starting to question whether AI token spend is worth it, @PoeticHQ is already offering the solution. Near-tokenless agents, 99%+ accurate on the workflows that actually run large companies - deployed at the world's leading banks and insuranceIntroducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune00:00 - Kleiner Perkins reposted
Markie is one of the most prescient people I know on AI, and I've been lucky to have a front row seat since the beginning. @PoeticHQ hit an 8-figure run rate and became profitable in 2025 with just 4 people. At a moment when token ROI is under scrutiny everywhere, @markiewagnerIntroducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune00:00 - Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune00:00
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Incredible - Kleiner Perkins repostedAI is turning medical knowledge into a commodity. That doesn’t make doctors less important. It makes judgment, trust, and accountability more valuable than ever. Medicine is being redefined in real time with @EvidenceOpen
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Barbara Massa joins Armadin as COO. 25+ years in cybersecurity, former EVP at Mandiant, and the operator to help us scale Armadin Red into the enterprise. Barbara, welcome to the fight. armadin.com/blog-posts/arm…
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Last week we held Harvey Hacks, our internal hackathon. 27 projects total across our 200-person eng team. Wanted to highlight a few hackathon projects:
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Introducing Agent Arena: real-world agentic evals at scale. How do you evaluate agents doing actual work? We measure millions of live sessions where real users accomplish real tasks. On Arena, models now get web search, filesystem, and terminal tools to complete complex
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The first Marketing Engineer job board is now live: marketingengineer.jobs "Marketing Engineer jobs" became a breakout Google Search term after we introduced this new role. @Google already hired their first Marketing Engineer, and companies like @Cloudflare, @tryramp,
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The entertainment industry just got its iPhone moment. Today, we're introducing Inkitt Ironblood, the world's first AI-native streaming platform built exclusively for Action, Superhero, and Sci-Fi. This is not an experiment, this is the next chapter. Watch the video below and
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