Co-founder/CEO of Temporal Technologies (@temporalio)
Joined October 2012
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Dario Amodei is right that safeguards need time to catch up with AI capabilities. But companies deploying agents face a related question: how much authority should they hand over?
When model output becomes real action, AI safety doesn’t stop at the model.
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Such a memorable experience to be interviewed on NYSE trading floor!
Following @temporalio’s $550M Series E round, CEO @SamarAtTemporal explains the shift toward agentic task execution.
Good game, @ClickHouseDB.
We’ll leave the queries to you. We’ll take the three points.
@ceo_clickhouse
@ShrivuShankar great to see Temporal adding value. Engineers building state management, retries, DLQ, etc as agents become more distributed and takes action in real world is not going to scale. It's so exciting to see @temporalio becoming the reliable foundation for AI systems.
This was so much fun. Thanks @sarahdingwang @RaghuRaghuram for having me.
"We are clearly entering a world where a product-minded engineer is now empowered to produce software without writing a line of code for it."
In this conversation, Temporal CEO Samar Abbas joins a16z GPs Sarah Wang and Raghu Raghuram to cover:
- Why agents are going from short-lived and interactive to long-running and async
- Why the engineer of the future manages 15 parallel AI tasks at once
- How OpenAI Codex runs millions of concurrent agent executions on Temporal
- How real-time context engineering is exploding on Temporal
- Why SaaS isn't dead, and value is migrating to APIs
00:00 Introduction
04:03 Temporal's origin story
11:14 Why agents raise the stakes
16:00 Specialized agents need durable RPC
25:20 Deep research agents
30:58 Execution histories as a superpower
39:04 Minimal viable long-running agent architecture
45:07 Context engineering at scale
52:40 Where value accrues: The "five-layer cake" and breakout AI applications
@SamarAtTemporal @sarahdingwang @RaghuRaghuram
So excited to be partnering with @CasberW and @SapphireVC team!!!
Congrats to @SamarAtTemporal & the @Temporalio team on the $300M Series D! 🌟👏
Temporal provides the infrastructure layer that helps teams run long-lived, stateful AI applications reliably & at scale, so developers can focus on innovation
We’re proud back Temporal as they continue to help companies move agentic AI out of the lab & into the real world.
So excited to be partnering with @ravi_lsvp and @anoushkavaswani at @lightspeedvp.
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So excited to be partnering with @RaghuRaghuram @sarahdingwang !!!
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Today marks an incredible milestone for @temporalio Technologies. I am proud to share that the company has raised $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, led by @a16z.
This news is a testament to the community and trust we’ve built in our Durable Execution, further solidifying our mission to continue investing in open source, expand cloud platforms, and continue helping companies move agentic AI out of the lab and into the real world.
Read more here: temporal.io/news/temporal-ra…
Bringing AI Agents to production should not be an afterthought. With @temporalio integration with Open AI's Agent SDK, you can design, test & ship production‑ready agents—complete with durable execution, retries, and observability—from day one.
Agents SDK + @temporalio = durable, production-ready agents.
Wrap your agent logic in a Temporal workflow to persist state, survive crashes, auto-retry failures, and run for days—with just a few lines of code.
Here's how it works: youtube.com/watch?v=fwh21RV6…
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Thanks @AmplifyPartners and @lennypruss for being such a strong supporter since the inception of the company. Really looking forward to more building in the next phase of the company.
Congrats to @temporalio on their Series C!
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Thanks @BogieBalkansky for all your support over the years. Excited to partner with you on the next phase of the company.
Congratulations to the @temporalio team on a big Series C! We at @sequoia partnered with @mfateev and @SamarAtTemporal more than five years ago, and what an amazing journey it has been! Durable Execution has grown from an obscure idea to a mission-critical technology that underpins money movement, short-term rental bookings, fast food orders, food delivery, and many AI use cases ..
Could not be more proud of this team and what they have achieved so far. And even more excited about what's to come!
Thanks @IndexVentures for the trust. Excited to deepen our partnership!!!
Congrats, @temporalio! We're proud to back the company in its $146M Series C.
Temporal's redefining durable execution, powering mission-critical & AI-driven workloads for teams at Snap, Netflix, Datadog & more.
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This moment is a testament to the dedication of our team, the trust of our customers, and the strength of our community.
A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey. This is just the beginning, and we can’t wait to show you what’s next.
🎉 Temporal just raised $146M Series C to power the future of Durable Execution.
This funding is an investment in the community, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
📖 Read more: temporal.io/blog/temporal-se…
📰 Press release: rb.gy/c79kpp
Thanks @SSomasegar for having me and @mfateev on the show. We covered so many topics from Temporal, Company Building, CEO Transitions, Board Members and ofcourse AI. It was a great in-studio conversation.
We really enjoyed breaking in our new studio to sit down with @temporalio founders for the latest episode of Founded & Funded.
Temporal was founded in 2019 based on an open-source microservices orchestration engine project but is the result of a more than decade-long partnership between the two co-founders that spanned their time working on different iterations of the same thing at AWS, Microsoft, and Uber.
In this episode, @SSomasegar, Samar, and Maxim dive into the challenges of building an open-source ecosystem while also working on a commercial offering and scaling a successful company, how to navigate and adjust a product roadmap in an ever-changing world of AI and large language models, and how to successfully build an early startup team, navigate through a CEO transition, and bring on a startups first independent board member. It's a very compelling conversation and a must-listen for every builder out there.
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Great post by ANZ on how @temporalio is helping ANZ Plus's engineering-led mindset to "let go of wrong decisions imposed on them"
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Strong endorsement from @McKinsey for Temporal. If you are spending too much time building resiliency into your applications, then you should be looking at @temporalio
My alma mater in the business world @McKinsey opining on the benefits of building "bullet proof applications" with @temporalio. For the geeks who want to read further it is a great crash course on Temporal
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We've partnered with AWS Activate to bring Temporal Cloud to even more startups. Bring your ideas to life faster by building reliable applications leveraging the platform. #temporal
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Great presentation from @cgillum at Replay conference. Amazing demo to show Azure Function integration with Temporal Cloud.
Loved the quote:
“Temporal for FaaS is possible”
It absolutely is!!!
Thanks for the amazing talk.