Anish Dhar

But I think the downside of that was when you have a bunch of A players who are operating at the highest level, they immediately can tell when there's, let's call it a B player in the room. It really demotivates, I think, a lot of people because they're putting their 150% in and suddenly there's this person who's not in the same boat. And I think it really is a big distraction.

But I think the downside of that was when you have a bunch of A players who are operating at the highest level, they immediately can tell when there's, let's call it a B player in the room. It really demotivates, I think, a lot of people because they're putting their 150% in and suddenly there's this person who's not in the same boat. And I think it really is a big distraction.

And so that was a big learning lesson for us. It was really important for me personally. And it's really changed the way that we recruit as well. The time to fill a position is not important, not even like a factor when it comes to these types of things. Like we have to find the best person for the role. And so that was a really important learning lesson early on.

And so that was a big learning lesson for us. It was really important for me personally. And it's really changed the way that we recruit as well. The time to fill a position is not important, not even like a factor when it comes to these types of things. Like we have to find the best person for the role. And so that was a really important learning lesson early on.

And so that was a big learning lesson for us. It was really important for me personally. And it's really changed the way that we recruit as well. The time to fill a position is not important, not even like a factor when it comes to these types of things. Like we have to find the best person for the role. And so that was a really important learning lesson early on.

When we raised our Series B, we had this thesis that every company is a software company, and I think everyone can agree to that. But I think what has happened to software has also become incredibly complex. And it starts, honestly, really early on in a company's days. Even when we had 20, 30 engineers and were building, ironically, on a monolith, there were still so many things that...

When we raised our Series B, we had this thesis that every company is a software company, and I think everyone can agree to that. But I think what has happened to software has also become incredibly complex. And it starts, honestly, really early on in a company's days. Even when we had 20, 30 engineers and were building, ironically, on a monolith, there were still so many things that...

When we raised our Series B, we had this thesis that every company is a software company, and I think everyone can agree to that. But I think what has happened to software has also become incredibly complex. And it starts, honestly, really early on in a company's days. Even when we had 20, 30 engineers and were building, ironically, on a monolith, there were still so many things that...

went into the software, right? It's not just your services, but all the infrastructure, databases, pipelines, even the third-party vendors you're using, all of these different components have owners, they have information about them that just lives in people's heads.

went into the software, right? It's not just your services, but all the infrastructure, databases, pipelines, even the third-party vendors you're using, all of these different components have owners, they have information about them that just lives in people's heads.

went into the software, right? It's not just your services, but all the infrastructure, databases, pipelines, even the third-party vendors you're using, all of these different components have owners, they have information about them that just lives in people's heads.

And I think for the longest time, people tried using Jira and Confluence as like a system of record to understand all this information, but talk to any engineer, those tools weren't built to really represent the software of a company. And so I think

And I think for the longest time, people tried using Jira and Confluence as like a system of record to understand all this information, but talk to any engineer, those tools weren't built to really represent the software of a company. And so I think

And I think for the longest time, people tried using Jira and Confluence as like a system of record to understand all this information, but talk to any engineer, those tools weren't built to really represent the software of a company. And so I think

There's this really amazing opportunity for Cortex to be that system worker for engineering in a meaningful way, because for us, the atomic unit of our software is the service. And the service can be represented as an EC2 instance. It can be a microservice. It can be a third party vendor. But all that information can be cataloged, scored and improved upon inside of the product.

There's this really amazing opportunity for Cortex to be that system worker for engineering in a meaningful way, because for us, the atomic unit of our software is the service. And the service can be represented as an EC2 instance. It can be a microservice. It can be a third party vendor. But all that information can be cataloged, scored and improved upon inside of the product.

There's this really amazing opportunity for Cortex to be that system worker for engineering in a meaningful way, because for us, the atomic unit of our software is the service. And the service can be represented as an EC2 instance. It can be a microservice. It can be a third party vendor. But all that information can be cataloged, scored and improved upon inside of the product.

And so in the same way a sales team, when they're scaling, they buy Salesforce, it comes with all of the tools you need to scale your team. That's where we really want to build with Cortex is this platform that comes with all of the tools you need to scale your engineering team from five to 50,000 and be a true partner to

And so in the same way a sales team, when they're scaling, they buy Salesforce, it comes with all of the tools you need to scale your team. That's where we really want to build with Cortex is this platform that comes with all of the tools you need to scale your engineering team from five to 50,000 and be a true partner to

And so in the same way a sales team, when they're scaling, they buy Salesforce, it comes with all of the tools you need to scale your team. That's where we really want to build with Cortex is this platform that comes with all of the tools you need to scale your engineering team from five to 50,000 and be a true partner to