Elias Torres
@eliast
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Founder and CEO of @Agency — previously built @Drift, @HubSpot, and @Performable. Invested in @Klaviyo, @Finix, @PostScriptIO, and dozens more.
Boston, MA 🇺🇸
Joined March 2008
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.
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Yesterday the team called me a boomer for using Perplexity. For the record, I use other tools. But the point is that my team members parents use Perplexity. Good for perplexity for attracting (me) the elderly. They are cooking.
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This is nothing new. The same exact thing happens linearly when tens of founders hire the same person over the years and realize they were terrible. So much equity, time and money wasted with bad hires and most of it could be solved if you did more of one thing:. References.
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
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Just wanted to say "you're welcome" to @AnthropicAI for helping you achieve this milestone. Tokens are really expensive. Glad to do our part.
Anthropic's revenue is accelerating, reaching an annual pace of $4 billion. Discover how this growth is impacting the AI landscape: . #airevenue.
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Main character energy — @zoink . I hate the insecure and weak that take the credit.
The first thing I appreciated in Figma’s S-1 was right at the start of @zoink's letter:. “When Evan and I started Figma…”. Too often, companies write departed founders out of a company’s story. Dylan did the opposite — and that says a lot.
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This is SOTA customer experience in 2025 when you give companies millions of dollars. @CharlesSchwab 😩
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RT @pioneersofAI: What’s the secret to building a billion-dollar company with just 100 people?. @eliast joins @kaliouby to share why it’s n….
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I think we need more until at least I become one. Then we can shut the doors.
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The worst UX feature in the world is the Annotate button on @Zoom. @grok @perplexity_ai please tell me how to fix.
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Levels.
this is a high tier psyop from sam. he’s talking directly to the market. by floating a number like $100m:. - he sets an anchor so absurd that anything meta offers now feels cheap. - he forces meta to either deny or match, both of which hurt them. - he gives his own employees a
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Every time someone sends me Replit or Cursor revenue, I remind me myself of stories like Amjad. It took us 3 years to $1M in revenue at Drift and 5 more to $100M. In the end it doesn’t even matter. Build something you are proud because customers love it. That’s why I am.
Earlier this month, we crossed $100M in ARR, up from $10M at the end of ’24. But that’s just fraction of the value we’re creating: from enterprise teams like @zillow and @HubSpot shipping faster, to solo builders like @yoheinakajima and @GerrardL_ building and running their.
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RT @sonyatweetybird: hello nyc! excited to host ai ascent nyc edition with @gradypb @sequoia this wednesday… DM us for an invite! https://t….
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I love how Jason is totally rewriting himself in the world of AI faster than 99.99% of the companies out there. I won’t even mention VCs. Faster than the young AI “native” startups including me. He’s not talking shit, but GSD instead.
Things we do at SaaStr we couldn’t 180 days ago:. - Have 40,000+ conversations with founders on our AI.- Rewrite our core flows on SaaStr website with Loveable + Claude Code.- Automate outbound to 20,000 alumni of our events.- Generate $600,000 in pipeline without a human . A.
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How long before internal CEO letters start leaking pushing to hire influencers as the marketing team?. B2B marketing is so meh. Name one company doing it well. I will wait.
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RT @rpenacastro: Everyone wants to be “AI-First.”. Few understand what it actually means. Even fewer get what really matters. I spoke with….
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RT @niu_xiaofei: too many founders driven by "passion" or "purpose" . actual success is fueled by spite and insecurity.
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RT @heinenbros: LLMs haven’t mastered geolocation—and probably never will. I just read Bellingcat’s new benchmark on 20 of the top LLMs an….
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