8090 Labs

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• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  you have product, you've got the signs of early product market fit, which means you'll get to pull eventually where people will just be like, I need this.

• bullish fact_claim Chamath Palihapitiya

  today there was a guy that tweeted, you know, that this is a third party. Uh, and he said, we've, you know, use software factory now to unbundle $5 billion of ISV licenses, $5 billion. And I saw that and I was like, man, this product works.

• bullish fact_claim Chamath Palihapitiya

  we sit it on top of a knowledge graph. And what that is, is this is very similar to sort of the architecture that I had in mind at Facebook and the architecture when we led the Series A in Slack. You know, I wrote this memo for Stuart, which was called Intercompany Edge Effects. ... I wrote the PRD for this network effects and how to build it and how to architect it.

• bullish assessment Chamath Palihapitiya

  The reason we call it a control plane is, like, it's a plane that sits, you know, above all the fray, all the chaos. You know, models will come, models will go. We work with all of them. We allow ourselves to be able to take advantage of the best-in-class model for the best task at that time. But it mostly is a product that's about multi-user, collaboration, control, governance.

• bullish assessment Chamath Palihapitiya

  when you go to the big guys and you talk about what they're dealing with, they're not here to fuck around with some stupid vibe coding tool. Like, this is the level of governance and auditability that they need. Why? Because if you think about the kinds of products that many of our customers make, they're in highly regulated markets.

• bullish fact_claim Chamath Palihapitiya

  we built the factory so that it can work in forward or reverse. So, for example, an engineer gets a pager duty, wakes up at 3 a.m. in the morning. They all of a sudden have to, like, you know, fix a bug or patch something. And they put production code in. We detect that. And now we auto-propagate the work order. We auto-make the change in the engineering plan. And then we make the change in the PRD. So, now everything is linked together.

• bullish fact_claim Chamath Palihapitiya

  I'll give you an example of one of our customers, regulated healthcare company. And with the BBB, a lot changed. They just feed that in to refinery. We understand the diff between that PRD and what needs to happen to respect the law. And once that's approved, it gets auto-propagated into the engineering plan, auto-propagated into a set of work orders. Humans review and approve them. And then put into the code because an agent goes and writes it. And now the system is completely in sync.

• bullish assessment Chamath Palihapitiya

  we support all of them via MCP. So you can use cognition. You could use codex. You can use clod. Cursor, whatever. You can use cursor. You can use whatever you want. And by the way, the reason we support those is our view is all of those vertical tools are going to converge. That's not where the skill is.

• bullish assessment Chamath Palihapitiya

  Why not have a system where intent comes in the front? You can shape it, humans, AI, agents. And then when you lock that down, Jason, the next most important step is to extract from it a very detailed, what we call an engineering plan or a blueprint, right? Like when you sketch out a house, the next step is you give it to the architect and say, give me the buildable blueprints, which give you all of the little technical details so that the house can stand on its own. The foundation is strong, th

• bullish assessment Chamath Palihapitiya

  The point is that at the senior level, you're managing risk and you're allocating capital towards ideas. You want to give a shape to that. And then you want to be able to put that in the front part of the factory and have your colleagues and your teammates and the people that work for you extract from it a pretty detailed PRD, right? A product requirements doc. And what's great is it's not just the humans that collaborate on that. Now you can have agents working behind the scenes to make that PR

• bullish fact_claim Chamath Palihapitiya

  in the first instantiation of 80-90, I said we have two goals. Goal number one is let's help companies get the margin benefits and the upside of the kinds of custom software that companies like Facebook and Tesla and Google benefit from, number one. And number two, along the way, how do you create a mechanism of learning the kind of data that can be collected by that process, by the unbundling of that process, so that incremental runs of software become safer and faster and simpler to build.

• bullish assessment Chamath Palihapitiya

  I wrote a product spec for something that I called co-founder. And the idea is, why can't everybody in the world have an incredibly capable co-founder? ... And that's sort of where 80-90 came from.

• bullish assessment Chamath Palihapitiya

  So I'm starting this thing and I've been working on this idea for a little bit, but, and I've been experimenting with it with some of my companies, but then I was like, you know what, we should just do this. So the concept here is we're going to build this incubator. It's called 8090. I have a team. I have a bunch of developers offshore. And we are going to basically create a hit list of software that we think is relatively straightforward and mispriced and could be built much more efficiently i

• bullish assessment David Friedberg

  with 80-90. It's been one of the joys of my career to actually start a company in the middle of what I think is the most important wave that I've ever seen professionally since social networking. And I jumped into the middle of that wave. And I kind of tried to ride the best wave I could there. I'm doing it here. But my honest takeaway, after being in this thing now for, you know, seven months intensely, and I'll be into it for as many years as it takes to build a successful company, is that AI

1. 2026-06-29 series_a · $135M · Led by Salesforce Ventures

VentureSignalScore 57.5/100 for 8090-labs, composed from 2 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage