What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #485

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What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #485

Anthropic: $0 → $14B in 3 Years. Unprecedented. And Still Early 🤯

Feb 14, 2026

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Have we ever seen anything like this in history?

“It has been less than three years since Anthropic earned its first dollar in revenue. Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion, with this figure growing over 10x annually in each of those past three years.”

Anthropic@AnthropicAIWe’ve raised $30B in funding at a $380B post-money valuation. This investment will help us deepen our research, continue to innovate in products, and ensure we have the resources to power our infrastructure expansion as we make Claude available everywhere our customers are.7:01 PM · Feb 12, 2026 · 1.46M Views528 Replies · 422 Reposts · 7.24K Likes

The wild aspect is that it’s still has barely penetrated the Fortune 500 and much of this is still spend on coding - absorb that. Some of the Anthropic investors suggested to me that while users are all over the Fortune 500 the real huge leap will be how to take shadow usage and turn that into pure enterprise contracts and when that happens, this could get much steeper.

Talking to many CIOs and CISOs, I can still tell you that securing agents and data privacy and protection are still top of mind. Which is also why JPM’s resilient AI stocks is chock full of cybersecurity companies.

Jesse Cohen@JesseCohenInvJPMorgan's 19 AI-Resilient Software Stocks to Buy: $MSFT $NOW $OKTA $TWLO $PANW $CRWD $ZS $S $SNOW $DDOG $VEEV $FROG What would you add? 6:29 PM · Feb 13, 2026 · 21.8K Views18 Replies · 35 Reposts · 176 Likes

And exactly what we discussed on the AI in Financials Panel this week at the Bank of America annual financial services conference.

This is also why my portfolio company Keycard continues to push the boundaries of security for autonomous coding agent workflows.

Keycard@KeycardLabsWe acquired [Anchor.dev](http://Anchor.dev). Keycard now powers autonomous coding agent workflows. Developers shouldn't have to choose between agent capability and security. 🧵 5:04 PM · Feb 10, 2026 · 4.78K Views6 Replies · 9 Reposts · 32 Likes

All that being said, don’t sleep on OpenAI Codex. So many gems 💎 in this podcast with Lenny and Sherwin Wu who leads engineering for OpenAI API:

Lenny Rachitsky@lennysanMy biggest takeaways from @sherwinwu: 1. AI is writing virtually all code at OpenAI. 95% of the engineers use Codex, and engineers who embrace these tools open 70% more pull requests than their peers, and that gap is widening over time. 2. The role of a software engineer isLenny Rachitsky @lennysan"Engineers are becoming sorcerers" @SherwinWu leads engineering for @OpenAI’s API platform, which gives him a unique view into what’s going, where things are heading, and what the future of software engineering looks like. Over 95% of engineers at OpenAI use Codex daily, each1:29 AM · Feb 13, 2026 · 245K Views60 Replies · 182 Reposts · 1.3K Likes

Here are a couple which stood out for all of you enterprise readers:

1. AI is writing virtually all code at OpenAI. 95% of the engineers use Codex, and engineers who embrace these tools open 70% more pull requests than their peers, and that gap is widening over time.

Spotify as well…

Sar Haribhakti@sarthakghSpotify says it’s best developers haven’t written a single line of code since December It’s co-CEO on earnings call: 3:08 AM · Feb 13, 2026 · 268K Views38 Replies · 90 Reposts · 1.06K Likes

2. The role of a software engineer is shifting from writing code to managing fleets of AI agents. Many engineers now run 10 to 20 parallel Codex threads, steering and reviewing rather than writing code themselves.

It always starts with the early adopter developers first but as discussed in last week’s What’s 🔥, this is also coming for knowledge work and will diffuse faster than ever.

7. Most enterprise AI deployments have negative ROI because they’re top-down mandates without bottom-up adoption. Success requires both executive buy-in and grassroots enthusiasm. Sherwin recommends creating a “tiger team” of technically-minded enthusiasts (often not engineers) who can explore capabilities, apply AI to specific workflows, and create excitement throughout the organization.

9. Business process automation is an underrated AI opportunity. While Silicon Valley focuses on knowledge work, most of the economy runs on repeatable business processes with standard operating procedures. There’s massive potential to apply AI to these workflows, which are often overlooked by the tech community.

I also believe that many of these workflows are just codified in culture and that not only AI can identify them but also help reengineer them to be even more efficient.

As always, 🙏🏼 for reading and please share with your friends and colleagues!

Scaling Startups

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Naval@navalNothing worse than a slow failure.3:15 AM · Feb 8, 2026 · 738K Views948 Replies · 1.75K Reposts · 20.2K Likes

why funds are getting bigger and bigger, the outcomes are as well

David Clark@daveclark85Thought it was worth updating our analysis of top 1% exits post 2024. The trend is continuing and may even be accelerating by the time we hit 2029... 10:50 AM · Feb 11, 2026 · 42.8K Views9 Replies · 21 Reposts · 131 Likes

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Dan Hockenmaier@danhockenmaierFour types of people at every company now yes, people get 10x better when the go from bottom right to top right but also, people get 10x worse when they go from bottom left to top left 4:09 PM · Feb 11, 2026 · 511K Views142 Replies · 351 Reposts · 3.96K Likes

lots of great firms but need more engineers!

Michael Morgenstern@M___Morgenstern2026 Miami Venture Capital Market: Founders Fund a16z Atomic Khosla Layer Global Magnet Capital Formation Bling Capital 776 SoftBank Blumberg Capital Boldstart Form Capital Casimir Holdings Fin Capital SaaS Ventures Protagonist Newtopia VC Avila VC Conscience OneSixOne Ventures8:53 PM · Feb 9, 2026 · 76.3K Views61 Replies · 51 Reposts · 685 Likes

Enterprise Tech

this is huge and opens up so many more ways for agents to do work more accurately and cheaply. WebMCP is a groundbreaking browser API that allows AI agents to interact directly with web services through structured JavaScript tools or annotated HTML forms, drastically improving efficiency by reducing errors from traditional UI simulation and screen-scraping methods. By enabling developers to expose site capabilities in a standardized way, it promises up to 90% lower token usage, 97.9% success rates, and over 50% cost savings, positioning it as a key advancement for reliable AI-driven web automation.

Maximiliano Firtman@firtChrome 146 includes an early preview of WebMCP, accessible via a flag, that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app like a user. Services can be declared through an imperative navigator.modelContext API or declaratively through a form. 4:50 PM · Feb 9, 2026 · 158K Views28 Replies · 108 Reposts · 924 Likes

spot on esp. as Datadog reported some solid YoY growth of 29% 👇🏻 - infra software not going away to vibe coding

Ed Sim@edsim🎯 also why Chronosphere grew so fast, it had the other model provider as largest customer hard core infra software not going to be replaced by a plugin or skillMarcelo P. Lima @MarceloLimaEveryone's going to vibe code everything, except Claude Code's maker Anthropic which is paying DataDog a lot of money for observability2:37 PM · Feb 12, 2026 · 2.48K Views2 Replies · 14 Likes

it’s coming back for sure for so many reasons - privacy, security, costs, control…

Chamath Palihapitiya@chamathIs on-premise the new cloud? I’m beginning to think yes. It’s the only way for companies to not blow themselves up and have some semblance of capability in an AI world…6:05 PM · Feb 12, 2026 · 362K Views350 Replies · 102 Reposts · 1.94K Likes

more Fortune 500 digital worker numbers, this time its BNY, it was Goldman last week

CNBC International@CNBCiAt America’s oldest bank, 134 new workers don’t sleep or take sick days. They don’t even have names. They’re what BNY calls “digital employees.” They work side by side with humans. They have unique roles and are evaluated by how well they do them. Some of their jobs were done by 5:00 PM · Feb 9, 2026 · 643 Views1 Repost · 1 Like

how to create a movement - must read

Ed Sim@edsimthis is what "agents eat labor" looks like in practice. not replacing salespeople, replacing the manual grunt work so they can actually sell. @kareemamin @vxanand @clay didn't just build a product, they created a job title. GTM engineer didn't exist 3 years ago. now it's 100+3:18 PM · Feb 12, 2026 · 6.21K Views1 Reply · 2 Reposts · 19 Likes

super important paper on what’s next in world of AI models - RLMs could revolutionize AI by enabling efficient handling of million-token contexts without hardware upgrades, boosting tasks like document analysis or complex simulations. This might shift AI development toward inference-time scaling, reducing reliance on massive models and sparking new agent-based architectures by 2026.

Alex L Zhang@a1zhangMuch like the switch in 2025 from language models to reasoning models, we think 2026 will be all about the switch to Recursive Language Models (RLMs). It turns out that models can be far more powerful if you allow them to treat their own prompts as an object in an external 9:14 PM · Jan 2, 2026 · 1.68M Views233 Replies · 1.05K Reposts · 6.86K Likes

what SaaS meltdown? lots of infra still 📈 while apps will have much more unpredictability of future earnings - Databrick with blowout numbers 🤯 with accelerating growth rate, one other interesting note - Ali said that 80% of the databases on the platform are built by AI agents 🤖

Ali Ghodsi@alighodsiI now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and now finished the year with accelerating Q4. The question is, why? Short4:54 PM · Feb 9, 2026 · 32K Views8 Replies · 29 Reposts · 134 Likes

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just so you know…

Dhanesh Gianani@dhanesh500NO WAYYY Claude in PowerPoint is absolutely INSANE ! It’s so over… 6:26 AM · Feb 8, 2026 · 3.01M Views300 Replies · 1.29K Reposts · 19.5K Likes

the RSA Innovation Sandbox Top 10 Finalists have been announced - launchpad for many of the best cybersecurity startups - these Top 10 Finalists have over 100 acquisitions and received over $18.1 billion in investments over the last 20 years 🤯 - so pretty pumped that Humanix.AI has been selected (one of our port cos)

Ed Sim@edsimCongrats @get_humanix_ai. RSA Innovation Sandbox Top 10. Humans are the new endpoint. Humanix protects them. Tackling the hardest security problem left: protecting humans from manipulation, deception, + impersonation in real time. Great group of finalists 👇🏻9:44 PM · Feb 10, 2026 · 315 Views1 Repost · 3 Likes

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Markets

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BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapitalAnd so it begins. These companies only need 60% of their employees. Yes, AI will help. But they need to fix their cost structures. Immediately. I expect massive layoffs in SaaS/fintech*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaoneDORSEY’S BLOCK CUTTING UP TO 10% OF ST AFF IN EFFICIENCY PUSH6:31 PM · Feb 8, 2026 · 172K Views35 Replies · 33 Reposts · 924 Likes

to the note above, some pain on the way

Jared Sleeper@JaredSleeperHeadcounts for assorted companies: Salesforce: 87,415 ServiceNow: 32,378 Workday: 23,234 Zoom: 12,743 Docusign: 8,403 OpenAI: 7,112 Okta: 7,064 UiPath: 5,096 Sprinklr: 4,368 Anthropic: 4,178 Yes, UiPath still has more employees than Anthropic. Infer from that what you will.2:22 AM · Feb 10, 2026 · 1.59M Views75 Replies · 19 Reposts · 690 Likes

eat when dinner is served 🍽️

Deirdre Bosa@dee_bosaDatabricks raised $7 billion because the smartest investors in the room were getting year 2000 vibes @alighodsi isn't predicting a crash but he's preparing for one 11:38 PM · Feb 9, 2026 · 36.2K Views6 Replies · 16 Reposts · 181 Likes