Mike Volpi
@mavolpi
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Do or do not, there is no try. -Yoda
Palo Alto
Joined February 2009
A real highlight of this job: getting to invest in some of my friends. Proud to back @cognition with our new fund @Hanabicapital -- partnering with @ScottWu46, @russelljkaplan, @at_code_wizard and the rest of the Cognition team. https://t.co/zZlEmgLNAS
cognition.ai
Cognition has raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation led by Founders Fund. Other existing investors are similarly doubling down including Lux Capital and 8VC (who jointly led our previous...
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haven't felt this way about a product since i first saw react in 2012
Long-time followers know I've always been skeptical of so-called "self-service analytics." This is largely because dashboarding technology is built to answer predefined questions. If you're lucky, you can only go a couple of layers deep. When I was a data analyst, the best
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Hiring top engineers shouldn’t take 3+ months. One Series A startup hired a Google alum + AI founder in just 25 days using Fonzi Match Day. Here’s how. 🧵
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Back in my Cisco days, while working on an M&A deal, I was rebuffed by our counterpart. I reported to my CEO, @JohnTChambers, that we weren’t going to get this deal done. John paused for a minute and said, “‘No’ is just the first step on a journey to ‘Yes’”. Words to live by.
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Your company culture isn't what you put on the wall—it's what you tolerate in the hallways. Every time you let mediocrity slide, you're teaching everyone what "good enough" looks like. Standards aren't set by your best performers. They're set by your worst ones you keep around.
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Most companies optimize for looking busy instead of being productive. The difference: busy feels urgent and scattered. Productive feels calm and intentional. Your energy is finite. Spend it on what actually moves the needle.
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Don't sleep on Cohere: Command A Reasoning, its first reasoning model, is built for enterprise customer service and more
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New reasoning model for real world use :) It turns out math reasoning isn’t directly correlated with tool use, agentic, or multilingual reasoning So we trained a new model. Weights available now.
It surpasses other privately deployable models in its class across key agentic and multilingual benchmarks to unlock real value for global enterprises.
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You can now deploy AI voice agents to LiveKit Cloud. We handle: • Stateful load balancing • Capacity management • Draining and instant rollbacks • Operational observability
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Fantastic new launch by @cartesia. Makes building voice agents super easy.... great work by the team!
Introducing Line by Cartesia: the modern voice agent development platform. Line was built to be code-first, because best-in-class products are built in code. ▶️ Watch us build an advanced voice agent with background reasoning in just minutes.
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Welcome Joelle and Francois. Great to have you onboard. Huge hires for @cohere
I’m very excited to welcome Joelle Pineau as our Chief AI Officer and Francois Chadwick as our CFO to help lead this next phase of making technology that’s radically helpful, secure, and practical for enterprises. https://t.co/zovaC9c8IW
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🙌 Nicely done @aidangomez and the @cohere team!
Big news today: we’ve raised $500M to grow @cohere, and have added some incredible new leaders to our team! We’re fortunate to build Cohere to be the world’s best choice for enterprises alongside some of the best investors, partners, and customers in the business.
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Exclusive interview: With all eyes on GPT-5, AI lab @cohere quietly dropped a big release 👀 I spoke to @aidangomez about his new AI agents platform North, and why he calls privacy “the most important, underrated and under-appreciated bottleneck” in AI. https://t.co/vDWQyd0OyO
upstartsmedia.com
Cohere spent 18 months building North, its new platform for AI agents. Its CEO argues the flagship product could revive enterprise adoption of AI tools.
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We’ve entered the era of AI agents. Voice may be the interface, but video is the next unlock. Today, we’re launching Hedra Live Avatars, the most advanced streaming avatar model in the world. - Low cost: Just $0.05/min — 15x cheaper than existing solutions - Ultra-low latency:
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Today, I’m thrilled to finally share what we’ve been building at @traversal_ai and announce our launch out of stealth—backed by $48M in seed & Series A funding led by @sequoia and @kleinerperkins, with NFDG, @hanabicapital, and an incredible group of angels. Traversal is
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