Jackson Engles (sometimes also the CEO of @tryminervaai)
Jackson Engles
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Sol is an epic model, and I’m grateful that our team has had access for the past few months.
With each respective frontier release we see the calls of the demise of OAI/Anthropic are premature. We are in a world of abundant competition / progress and we’ll continue to see this game of leapfrog for a long time.
There has never been a better time to build and scale a business!!!
GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday.
We’re expanding preview access globally now.
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God bless America, there is no alternative. I am eternally grateful for our shining light of human liberty, freedom and progress.
American Century? American Millenia. Here’s to the next 250!
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If you’re starting from the premise of ‘make money’ and not ‘create value for X,’ you have already lost sight of the cornerstone upon which money can actually be made at scale.
Even if you think the labs are the last companies (lol) they will still create massive wealth for non-employees through acquisition / vendor relationships over the next 5-20 years (pick your agi + distribution timeline)
I am increasingly convinced there are only 2 ways to reliably make money in this AI cycle:
1. Be a great investor who can spread risk across many bets.
2. Work at OpenAI or Anthropic.
Anyone else that makes real $$$ (including startup founders) are the exception that proves the rule and should feel blessed their lottery ticket hit 🎰
I think we're deluding ourselves if we pretend anything else is true.
I am not saying don't build. I'm building.
I think we should just be honest with ourselves.
No amount of hard work or luck will save you.
So what should we do? I think you have 2 options whether you are a startup founder, work at a startup or even a larger company.
I would ask myself:
1. Am I in a winner?
2. Do I have a very clear edge to win?
If the answer to either of those is no, I would drop everything and try to align myself with one of the points above.
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minerva's headed to cannes lions next week!
our founders @TheRealDanSaedi and @_jcfe are gonna be on the ground all week - meeting with marketers, researchers, operators, founders, whoever's thinking hard about how brands actually use their data.
if you're building anywhere near the AI x marketing world, come say hi. would genuinely love to swap notes on what's working, what's broken, and where this whole thing is going.
want to meet up? just dm us here 🤝
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This is why I wanted to build a company with @mattjoseph27 in the first place. These sort of agentic systems are incredibly complex to build, but they unlock MASSIVE value across the entire enterprise deployment ecosystem.
Every sales and marketing tool now promises AI will improve your results
but they don't tell you how it will cost thousands of dollars and hours of time to onboard
We built a system with @OpenAI for the part everyone hides: onboarding
And today we're giving it away for free
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Be one of the first 100 brands to sign-up for a Growth plan and get onboarding with ADE free: auth.minerva.io/sign-up
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I've known Daniel A. Saedi for ~25 years, since before the fancy A. in his name, and have wanted to invest in him for as much of that that I've known investing was a thing.
Finally got to do it with Minerva, which you should use if you want customers.
AI can now read your customers' minds.
We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this.
Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:
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Thrilled to publicly announce what we’ve been working on @TryMinervaAI for the past three years! We’re sharing a few things today, but expect more throughout the week!
We’ve taken a largely unconventional approach to building Minerva: build value first, build hype second. Excited to start sharing more with the public! More info below 👇
AI can now read your customers' minds.
We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this.
Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:
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Today we’re announcing $20M in funding from @thegp, @8VC, Lingotto Innovation, @topology_vc, @NBA Investments and many others, alongside a collaboration with @OpenAI.
Thank you to Chris Metinko at @Axios for covering our launch. axios.com/pro/enterprise-sof…
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If what we’re building seems exciting, please get a demo: minerva.io/demo
Or submit an application, we’re hiring for everything: minerva.io/company#careers
Learn more: minerva.io/
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Stoked to work with @samrags_ @0xMasonH and @TheRealDanSaedi on this project. sneak peak of much to come over the rest of 2026 :)
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building hyperlink choose your own adventure games - crazy core memory unlock. some of us were built to be deck monkeys
one of my favourite pastimes as a kid was making PowerPoints. i didn't really know what the purpose of PowerPoint was, i would use it to make visionboards, animations, and choose-your-own-adventure video games (using hyperlinks between slides). children enjoy a blank canvas!
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