CMO @CloudBees. Navigator @Codeship. Previously @1password, @google, @atlassian. Proud @michiganalumni. Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO. B2B Top 100 CMO.
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Raj Sarkar retweeted
The Post is right.
I'm sporting a mustache this "Movember" to raise awareness of men’s health issues, including prostate cancer.
But this isn’t just (upper) lip service.
This year, our administration is investing $4M toward a brand-new prostate cancer center at Kings County hospital in Brooklyn.
Mamdani raises eyebrows with new look, ditching beard and sporting surprising 'stache trib.al/qmtVh20
This man is so good with messaging and social media - marketers everywhere take notes. This tweet is going in the Twitter Hall of Fame.
Raj Sarkar retweeted
We got your back, New York!
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Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
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Raj Sarkar retweeted
This needs to be preserved in the National Archives as part of the permanent historical record of the United States.
Raj Sarkar retweeted
new york city really gave us the knicks in june and historically perfect halloween weather in october. 2026 needs to be bottled up and studied for future generations
Raj Sarkar retweeted
Scaling Smart Tests across hundreds of engineers? We built a live adoption dashboard for one customer in under a week: every team's stage, hours saved, stalled teams flagged.
Here’s how we built it, and how other Smart Tests customers can request one: cloudbees.com/blog/smart-tes…
He is so good at messaging. So much to learn from him.
OBAMA: The president wasn't even mad. About The Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory. He took great umbrage. He said I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House.
They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.
Raj Sarkar retweeted
What do a dental clinic’s landing page, someone’s hobby project, and a software company’s internal tools have in common?
AI can build all three. But are those customers shopping for the same thing?
@usehercules co-founder and CEO @BrendanFalk chatted with @moritzplassnig about why treating “AI app building” as a single market misses what people actually want to build, and why we should see it as a solution that applies to multiple markets instead.
Watch the full conversation:
codeship.com/articles/founde…
Raj Sarkar retweeted
Brendan Falk sold Fig to AWS in 2023, with hundreds of thousands of weekly active developers on the product.
If he could go back, would he sell?
"Absolutely not."
Since then, Cursor and Cognition have built huge businesses on that same developer audience, and Claude Code started on the command line, right where Fig lived. He's confident selling was the right call at the time, but hindsight is 20/20.
His journey as a founder didn't end there — watch the full interview to hear what happened next: codeship.com/articles/founde…
Raj Sarkar retweeted
This is the first time I've spoken publicly about getting acquired by AWS, why we're building Hercules, and my journey as an entrepreneur.
Honored to do it with my friend, @moritzplassnig (CEO @CloudBees) as he relaunches the @codeship brand!
Timestamps:
- 0:00 Intro
- 3:52 How Fig started
- 9:00 Betting on autocomplete
- 10:55 Getting acquired by AWS
- 16:30 Navigating the idea maze
- 19:26 Zeus: Palantir-like enterprise AI transformations
- 22:42 Hercules: The best AI app builder for business
- 26:41 Reaching 10s of millions of revenue with 7 people
- 37:41 Our emphasis on customer support
- 40:46 The SaaS-pocalypse
- 45:19 Closing thoughts
Transcript: codeship.com/articles/founde…
Raj Sarkar retweeted
At every internship he had, @BrendanFalk found the smartest person in the room and asked them the same question: why don't you just leave and start a company?
He still can't fathom the answer. Brendan founded Fig, sold it to AWS in 2023, and now runs @usehercules. He says starting companies is stressful, "like eating glass," and still the most fun thing he's ever done.
Watch the full conversation: codeship.com/articles/founde…
Raj Sarkar retweeted
Eye-popping numbers in the ABC/Ipsos poll:
1) Trump's approval hits a record low
2) Trump's "strong approval" with Republicans hits a record low
3) Democrats lead on 10 of 12 issues (+9 on trans issues). Crime is the only issue Republicans lead on outside of the margin of error
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“I don't understand people who don't want to start companies." - @BrendanFalk
Brendan Falk is the co-founder of Fig (acquired by AWS) and @UseHercules, an AI app builder used by >100k businesses. He sat down with Codeship co-founder @moritzplassnig to talk about the instinct to build and the series of bets that took him here. Coming soon to codeship.com.
Thank you @elonmusk and @Starlink - flying @qatarairways and in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - high speed wifi! Just wow! The connectivity is unreal!