Activity
22K followers
-
Hugo Barra shared thisDavid Singleton, Nicholas Jitkoff and I -- along with the entire Dreamer team -- are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs today! The idea behind Dreamer is simple: every person should have the power to create software that makes their lives better. We're excited to make this happen for billions of people. And personally, I'm really psyched to be rejoining so many old friends at Meta!Hugo Barra shared thisExcited to announce that Hugo Barra, Nicholas Jitkoff and I are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs with the entire Dreamer team today. The last few months have been extraordinary: we built Dreamer, put the beta in the world just a month ago, and saw magic come to life for real people. Since then, thousands of people have used Dreamer to build personal, intelligent software with our Sidekick in the world’s newest and most popular programming language: English! They're building and sharing agents to manage email, calendar, and to-do’s, create learning tools for their kids, learn new languages, plan trips with friends, become better cooks, help them with work, achieve their health goals, or simply to creatively express themselves—all sorts of surprising and uniquely personal needs. These are agents as unique as the people building them, because they're built exactly the way each person wants them to be. We’ve captured some of our favorites at https://lnkd.in/gz8ZMxK2. What matters most here isn’t the early momentum; it’s what Dreamer has enabled people to do. People are building things they’ve wanted for years. They’re solving real, important problems no traditional software company would ever prioritize, because they’re too niche, too bespoke, too personal. What company would ever build for an “n of 1”? Our bet from the beginning has been that software should be personal, malleable, and shaped by the person using it. The constraint was never people’s imagination. It was the fact that building software is out of reach for most people. This early chapter gives us conviction that the idea resonates, the need is real, and the moment is now. Alexandr Wang was helpful to us from the very beginning, and when we showed Dreamer to Mark Zuckerberg and Nat Friedman earlier this year, it was clear right away that we share the same vision of the future: one where billions of people have the power to create software that makes their lives better. We’re thrilled to accelerate this mission by joining Meta Superintelligence Labs and licensing our technology to Meta. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gGEurCDj. Deeply grateful to our investors Jill (Greenberg) Chase and Nina Achadjian for supporting our vision for a more personal, creative, and intelligent future for software. Thank you for the trust, the thought partnership, and for being in our corner at every step. To everyone in our community who built with us: thank you. You've taught us what's possible, and you're the proof this works. We're so grateful, and we're just getting started!
-
Hugo Barra reposted thisHugo Barra reposted thisYesterday, we gave people a powerful tool. Here's what we saw happen in the first 24 hours.
-
Hugo Barra shared thisSuperDo is one of my favorite agents I built in Dreamer. Here's the backstory. I've been obsessed with to-do apps my entire professional life. Back when I was a PM on the Android team in the early 2010s, I helped start Google Keep as a 20% project. For years I remained proud of building a simple, fast and really useful to-do app. Google Keep is still timelessly awesome, but it's clear to-do's could use some reinvention. Enter Dreamer. Over the holiday break, my wife Laura Griffiths and I set off to try and reinvent to-dos. Our goal was to create an agentic app that just... took care of things. So we built SuperDo in Dreamer. With SuperDo, all you have to do is enter your to-do as you normally would. SuperDo then creates a sub-agent (via a Sidekick Task) that researches your entire personal context (emails, calendar, msgs, docs) to figure out steps to get that thing done. It'll also automatically update your to-dos -- including checking it off your list for example when it sees an email update. And Laura's favorite feature -- SuperDo proactively turns emails or msgs into to-dos for you. What's interesting here is that in our previous tech era there would be an _entire_ VC-backed company building this, and I don't think they would have come as far as we did over two weekends building SuperDo. This is just V1 and there's a lot more work "to do" here, but we think this is a really good start. Try it and let me know what you think!
-
Hugo Barra reposted thisHugo Barra reposted thisCongrats to the Dreamer team on their launch today! I got the chance to sit down with David Singleton and Hugo Barra for a deep chat on personal agents, building on the Claude Agent SDK, and their startup journey. We could have talked for hours! You can join the beta at https://dreamer.com https://lnkd.in/gDRSrmDbDreamer Launch: Personal Agents with David Singleton and Hugo BarraDreamer Launch: Personal Agents with David Singleton and Hugo Barra
-
Hugo Barra shared thisToday we announced Dreamer, a new operating system for AI agents and agentic apps. David Singleton, Nicholas Jitkoff and I started this journey >1 year ago based on shared intuition that modern AI would fundamentally change how people use software in their daily lives. We knew this would require completely rethinking today's computing platforms. So we took a few pages from our past work on things like Symbian, Android, ChromeOS, and Oculus Quest OS... and the answer is Dreamer. It's still early days, but the product is ready for the first builders. Join our beta! 👇 Sign-up link in comments belowHugo Barra shared thisJobs called computers "bicycles for the mind" -- tools we could shape to our will. But they never were. Until now. Every morning an agent preps me for my day -- calendar, news, last 24hrs of Slack -- in a podcast. I made it by asking. Same for hundreds of other things. Launching Dreamer in beta today. That 🧠 bicycle, finally. 👇Sign-up link in comments below
-
Hugo Barra reposted thisHugo Barra reposted thisNeko Health is coming to the US this spring – starting with New York City! With now over 300,000 signups globally, the Neko Body Scan will offer New Yorkers a completely new healthcare experience that combines breakthrough scanning technology with personalized preventive care. ...and our dedicated US waitlist is now open! nekohealth.com/nyc So if you live in or travel to New York, join the waitlist *now* to be at the top of the line when we open our doors in the city. In 2026, we’re also excited to serve exponentially more people. We’ll be opening more locations in the UK & Sweden, and bringing new technology into the scan room powered by our latest research. Daniel Ek and I have been talking about our US launch since the earliest days of building this company together. I couldn’t be more fired up that this moment has finally come! Lots of hard work ahead 🏗🏗
-
Hugo Barra reposted thisHugo Barra reposted thisThis is a feature I’m really excited about. You can now follow your favorite music venues directly on Spotify to more easily find live shows near you. If you’re into concerts - definitely check this one out.
-
Hugo Barra shared thisWe’re looking for a couple of amazing engineers to join our team at /dev/agents as we’re getting ready to open the doors a bit wider and show the world what we’ve been working on. 👇 Stay tuned!Hugo Barra shared thisThe past few months at /dev/agents have been electric. We've been building something special with a small group of early users, and watching the pieces come together has been incredible. The pace is intense, the progress is real, and we're getting close to sharing this with everyone… soon. It’s now time to grow the team! We’re looking for a couple of world-class engineers to join our small excellent team in San Francisco. If you consider yourself a capable generalist or mobile expert—there are all manner of important things to work on across UI, infrastructure and our AI stack—this is the moment to dive in. 👉If this sounds like you, join us at https://sdsa.ai/.
-
Hugo Barra shared thisPumped to see my co-founder David Singleton sharing his insights with Ryan Peterman on engineering leadership and what we're building at /dev/agents. David's journey from junior engineer to VP at Google to Stripe CTO is incredible, but what I love most is how he thinks about the craft of building, whether it's teams, products, or entirely new paradigms for human-computer interaction. His perspective on hiring, scaling, and creating the conditions for great work has completely shaped how we approach everything at our company. Bonus: David shares his thoughts on why we need a new OS for AI agents and how we're tackling that challenge at /dev/agents. Links to watch the interview: • Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gspAp-SK • Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g4n-fUxeHugo Barra shared thisDavid Singleton was the CTO at Stripe for 7 years before he left to start /dev/agents. Prior to Stripe, he grew from a junior engineer to a VP at Google. I recently asked him about everything he knows about career growth and being an excellent engineering leader. We discussed: • How he grew from an IC to a VP at Google • How to hire at scale without Leetcode • Writing code as a senior leader • The story behind becoming Stripe’s CTO • The top book and habit that impacted his career • How to start a non-bay area site successfully • How to speak so that others listen • Scaling yourself as an engineering leader Where to watch: • Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gspAp-SK • Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g4n-fUxe • Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gm8r-2_R What’s funny is in conversation I discovered that Philip Su (from a previous episode) and David were constantly battling for the top talent in London. Philip was the London site director for Meta and David was his counterpart at Google. They grew close out of mutual respect and it’s why Philip spoke highly of David’s expertise. If you haven’t seen the Philip episode I also recommend that one! https://lnkd.in/dh2HZtub
-
Hugo Barra reacted on thisHugo Barra reacted on thisMatthew de Jonge founded Fortell with a mission to build a better hearing aid after seeing the impact hearing loss had on his grandparents. The company's AI powered hearing aids launched in December and have attracted customers including KKR chair Henry Kravis and comedian Steve Martin. Fortell is planning to expand to Boston, San Francisco and Palo Alto as it grows. See who else made Forbes' 2026 Next Billion-Dollar Startups list: https://lnkd.in/grx-CB8N 📸: Aaron Kotowski for Forbes #BillionDollarStartups
-
Hugo Barra reacted on thisHugo Barra reacted on thisWe believe the future will have fewer barriers and more breakthroughs, but no matter what changes, people will be at the heart of everything we do.
-
Hugo Barra liked thisHugo Barra liked thisToday, I shared with the OpenAI team that I have decided to leave my full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time advisor. Three months ago, I had to go on medical leave after a severe exacerbation of a chronic illness I’ve lived with for seven years. During that time, it became clear that the road to recovery would be much longer than anticipated—and that I needed to focus on it fully. When I went on leave, many people told me I was courageous for prioritizing my health. The truth is that I am only making this decision now because I failed to make it many times before. Over the years, doctors, friends, colleagues, and loved ones encouraged me to slow down. Two years after I got sick, Facebook offered me the opportunity to take a full year of medical leave. I didn’t even pause to consider it. At the time, Zuck told me I should play the long game. I wish I had listened. Looking back, I realize that a lot of what made me successful also made this decision incredibly difficult. I grew up believing that opportunities were precious and that when they appeared, you grabbed them with both hands. That mindset carried me from a small town in southern France to opportunities I never could have imagined. I love building. My work has always given me a deep sense of purpose. But what I’m learning now is that grit and endurance are not the only skills required to have impact over decades. Sometimes the harder thing is to stop, listen, and trust that taking care of yourself today makes it possible to contribute for much longer tomorrow. This experience has also strengthened my conviction about why this work matters. It has been a jarring experience to spend my days helping build the future while simultaneously navigating a disabling disease that has no cure. I’ve spent countless hours in doctors’ offices, dealing with symptoms, treatments, insurance, uncertainty, and all the invisible work that comes with being a patient. More than ever, I believe that some of the most important opportunities for AI lie in helping people solve real problems in their daily lives: their health, their finances, their time and the everyday burdens that shape human experience. In particular, curing disease is the most important thing AI could accomplish. I’m excited to continue working towards cures through OpenAI but also through my work with ChronicleBio and Complex Disorders Alliance. I’m deeply grateful to Sam, Greg and the OpenAI board for their support during this time and for offering a way for me to continue contributing to the mission without sacrificing my chances of recovery. I’m also so thankful to my team and the many extraordinary colleagues I’ve had the privilege to build alongside. For now, my focus is recovery. But my belief in the potential of technology to solve deeply human problems has never been stronger.
-
Hugo Barra liked thisHugo Barra liked thisMy grandfather escaped Nazi Germany, enlisted, and suffered hearing loss in the war. He went to Princeton on the GI bill where his campus job was chauffeur to Albert Einstein. He read Princeton Alumni Weekly, cover to cover, until his final days. Circulation numbers be damned, that makes this my new favorite write-up on Fortell. Massive thanks to Princeton University Men's Basketball Coach Mitch Henderson and Trustee Gordon Ritter for sharing your experiences as Fortell patients. Thanks Mark Bernstein for crafting such a thoughtful piece. And finally, thanks to the photographer who let me stand higher on the steps than Cole Morris, my co-founder and Princeton roommate. 👇 Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/guMNWZ9Y
-
Hugo Barra reacted on thisHugo Barra reacted on thisLast week we gave a name to the diagnostic you run before you invest in AI: Phase 0. This week, sharing a recent customer case study: We pointed it at one of the highest-value operations in any enterprise: customer service. Raw service data in. Lighty maps the true end-to-end workflow and named the causal driver of cycle time: “The #1 lever was internal back-and-forth: the handoffs between systems and teams”, Mikey Kindler. That turns the AI question into a clear answer: where to build first? claims first, shipment tracking second, general inquiries third. "What Lighty showed us about our own operation, and how to put it in front of the executive team, was the most important conversation we had all year." — Rob Milstead, CIO for a PE-backed industrial manufacturer Swipe through 👉 then schedule a demo with us to run a Phase 0 for your business with lighty.ai Phase 0 for enterprise AI success. Causal intelligence for AI investment decisions. Mikey Kindler Anthony Johnson Richard Rabbat #EnterpriseAI #CustomerServiceAI #AIStrategy
-
Hugo Barra reacted on thisNailed it, thanks James!Hugo Barra reacted on thisA brand like Nothing shouldn’t really exist. If you asked a management consultant in 2020 if there was room for a new smartphone—when leaders were entrenched and challengers were competing on price—and the answer would likely have been no. But Nothing wasn’t born from a market-sizing exercise. Founded by Carl Pei in London in 2020, the company is built around his clear vision: “As consumer tech companies grow, they often focus on protecting themselves from disruption rather than driving innovation. I felt that if no one tried to challenge that, the category would stay boring forever.” I often ask the founders we work with what their nemesis is. It’s a simple question, but it reveals how they see the world and themselves within it. Nothing has a clear answer. It knows exactly what it is, and what it isn’t. In a category obsessed with incremental upgrades, Nothing is betting that personality still matters. This month in Fast Company I've written a breakdown on the company that's built different and why - even though I am not the target market - I think they are doing brilliant things. See the full article in the comments.
-
Hugo Barra reacted on thisHugo Barra reacted on thisToday we’re announcing Gigascale Capital’s $250M first institutional fund to back early-stage founders rebuilding the physical economy. When we started Gigascale, the thesis still sounded non-obvious to a lot of people: hardware, infrastructure, and the physical world could produce venture-scale companies again. Three years later, we’re seeing it work. There’s a revolution happening in hardware and infrastructure at the same time demand is rising from data centers, onshoring, electrification, and industrial growth. That combination creates the conditions for a new generation of companies to get built. The world needs more power, more resilient supply chains, more critical materials, and better infrastructure. In many cases, the question for the best companies is no longer whether demand exists. It’s how fast they can supply it. That’s why the physical economy is back at the center of technology. Physical companies don’t behave like software companies with heavier capex. They have different failure modes. A lab result doesn’t always survive the first manufacturing run. A seed-stage architecture choice can determine what’s possible at Series B. In the physical economy, early decisions compound. At Meta, I saw how early architecture and infrastructure decisions shaped products that eventually reached billions of people. Scaling is not something you solve later. The path from prototype to production is determined by technical, operational, and architectural choices made early. Victoria Beasley and Evaline Tsai, PhD bring deep operational experience as builders, founders, and investors, and our team brings the technical and company-building depth founders need on the path to scale. Since 2023, we’ve backed more than 25 companies across energy, grid infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, materials, and AI for physical systems. We’re seeing companies move from idea to facility, from prototype to shipping product, from technical insight to customers who need what they are building. Climate impact won’t come from asking the world to adopt worse systems for virtuous reasons. It comes when a different technical approach makes the cleaner system also simpler, more scalable, and cost competitive. That’s the future we’re backing. Our full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gUSY4ZXk More in Axios: https://lnkd.in/gm_JPddW
Experience
Education
Languages
-
Portuguese
-
-
Spanish
-
-
French
-
Recommendations received
-
LinkedIn User
4 people have recommended Hugo
Join now to viewOther similar profiles
Explore more posts
-
Miguel Armaza
The Brex / Capital One $5.15Bn acquisition is a huge deal and should be celebrated. How did they do it? I've studied their culture by interviewing Henrique Dubugras (Co-founder), Michael B. Tannenbaum (ex-CFO, Employee #1), and Art L. (CBO, Employee #50). These are 10 important lessons I learned from them. Henrique and Pedro built Brex as teenagers from a house in SF to a generational fintech in 9 years. From a startup card to $100B+ in TPV. Along the way, they created a culture that has already spun out dozens of founders who have raised over $800M+. Here's what I learned on our Fintech Leaders episodes: 1. Your first 10 leadership hires matter more than your first 10 employees. Those leaders create processes and structures that outlast them. Some of Brex's first 10 employees didn't become managers, but the leaders they hired early shaped the culture. 2. Great founders get lucky with great mentors. Henrique's first investor was a payments founder who taught him the entire industry before he really understood it. The right early backer can accelerate your learning curve dramatically. 3. Build everything in-house. A major competitive advantage came from building all their software from scratch. Brex built their own issuer processor because Marqeta and Stripe Issuing were not mature when they launched. That proprietary infrastructure enabled deeper integrations than competitors could ever achieve. 4. Your best culture exists in the edges, not the nodes. Henrique used to think companies were 100% about the people. Now he believes the real value is in the processes, systems, and structures people create. Great companies can survive personnel changes because excellence lives in the connections between people. 5. If you have five priorities, you have zero. Every employee and team has a single OKR. The discipline of extreme focus brought them back to hyper growth after a period of growing pains. 6. Move at an unnaturally fast rate. When someone says they will revert next week, ask why not tomorrow. Analysis paralysis kills momentum. Brex leaders operate with urgency that feels uncomfortable to most people. 7. Listen to your customers. Brex built partnerships with Navan and Zip because 87 customers asked about Navan integration in six months. The biggest strategic moves came directly from customer requests. 8. Land and expand is crucial in enterprise. Large customers do not deploy new vendors to everyone at once. They want to try you in one use-case first. Brex restructured sales comp with longer hold periods so reps would land small and expand later. 9. Promoting from within creates loyalty. Behind every internal promotion, a manager is taking a risk on you. The easiest path is always hiring someone who has done the job before. Backing internal talent is harder but builds something lasting. 10. Dream big is not a cliche. Their audacious goal-setting culture produced a generational company in 9 years. Bravo! Link in comments ⤵️
5 Comments -
Matt Rappaport
You can have groundbreaking science, elegant engineering, and even early customer interest. But without this one thing, you don't have an investable business. After two decades running IP strategy projects and now leading UC Berkeley's Deep Tech Innovation Lab while building the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, I've watched countless brilliant technologies die in the valley between breakthrough and business. The problem isn't what most technical founders think it is. It's not about having better tech. It's not about getting more funding. It's not even about finding product-market fit. The fatal flaw shows up much earlier—and it's almost always the same mistake. In my latest piece, I answer questions from a Taiwanese entrepreneur about what really separates deep tech ventures that scale from those that stall. Including one provocative suggestion for Asian ecosystems that has nothing to do with technology. Read the full conversation, linked below. #DeepTech #Innovation #Startups #IntellectualProperty #VentureCapital
6 Comments -
Jeff James Martin
"We've become so insular in who we talk to and listen to, and I didn't realize how much that was keeping me in tunnel vision and tunnel thinking." Seth Levine, Co-Author of Capital Evolution and Partner at Foundry, talks about seeking out more diversity of thought on Tech Scenes Unplugged. #venturebacked #vcbacked #venturecapital #leadership #ceo #founder #operatingsystem #peakOS #foundermode
1 Comment -
Osama U.
Today we officially kick off our $2M pre seed round for Salubrum (Backed by Forum Ventures), supported by Forum Ventures, Coeus Collective Ventures, and Draper House Americas. Healthcare companies spend over $30B a year trying to acquire patients. The problem is not media. The problem is timing. Every time a patient approaches a healthcare decision a moment opens. Which doctor to see. Which procedure to pursue. Which treatment to start. For the companies involved in that decision, knowing that moment exists is incredibly valuable. Salubrum (Backed by Forum Ventures) is building the intelligence layer that maps those decision moments across the U.S. patient population. Our system aggregates large healthcare datasets covering 300M+ patient identities and uses them to predict when individuals are approaching important healthcare decisions. That signal can then be used by providers, pharma companies, payers, and other healthcare organizations trying to reach patients at the right time. Our first wedge is patient acquisition for healthcare providers and brands, but the underlying intelligence layer has much broader applications wherever patient behavior influences economic decisions. Over the past months we have quietly built the foundation. • Early pilots validating our patient intent scoring system • Distribution partnerships forming across healthcare platforms • Backed by Forum Ventures, Coeus Collective Ventures, Draper House Americas, NEXT Canada and Metta World Peace Starting tomorrow we will be meeting investors as part of the Forum Ventures showcase. If you are an investor interested in building with us get in touch. Calendly: https://lnkd.in/e5j-VvGC Investor Memo: https://lnkd.in/e5HyemAp
6 Comments -
Daniel Dart
🚨NEW EPISODE: Recorded live at FUTURE TITANS 2026 - Jeff Perry of Carta sat down with the iconic Seth Levine, co-founder of Foundry. Seth has been in venture for 25 years, built Foundry from scratch as an emerging manager himself, and has backed about 50 emerging manager funds through his fund of funds. He has genuinely seen every side of this table. They went deep on building Foundry, why VCs are in the influence business, not the decision business, and why the concentration problem in venture is not only bad for LPs, but also for the innovation ecosystem overall. And why Seth's new book, Capital Evolution, is so important for the future of America. 🎧 Links to listen... Apple: https://lnkd.in/ehQUQ2EM Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eU4FExpg
1 Comment -
Dave Messina
I've looked at a lot of YC batches. The bio and health lineup in P26 is STACKED. https://lnkd.in/gQKxpe9t Adialante - Compact, mobile whole-body MRI to make cancer screening accessible at hundreds per scan FinalDose - A programmable drug that reads DNA inside the cell and destroys it if it's diseased, starting with previously undruggable cancer targets Voquill (YC P26) - An AI coworker for pathologists that learns your reporting style and produces sign-out ready reports in real time Clara - An AI primary care doctor with a licensed clinician reviewing every medical decision Lumius (YC P26) - Affordable, real-time 3D ultrasound, starting with vascular access
7 Comments -
Carlos (CK) Kokron
We are excited to announce our investment in Axion's $37M Series B round! With rising product complexity and global supply chain pressures, traditional, reactive quality control in manufacturing is no longer sustainable. Axion's AI observability platform directly addresses this by connecting fragmented enterprise data across engineering, service, and supply chain teams to detect quality issues and root causes earlier. Furthermore, Schneider Electric is already deploying Axion's solution in several business units, demonstrating clear ROI by using its AI application to predict problems and streamline remediation. Investing in Axion aligns perfectly with SE Ventures' mission to accelerate digital transformation, driving efficiency, safety, and sustainability at scale for the industrial world. Congrats to Daniel First and the entire Axion team. The fun is just getting started! Read more about our investment here: https://lnkd.in/gdi7k6ZF Brad Jones Luc Meysenc Stephan Prueger Amit Chaturvedy
4 Comments
Explore top content on LinkedIn
Find curated posts and insights for relevant topics all in one place.
View top content