How do you move fast enough to stay ahead without leaving your people behind? Our co-CEO Eiso Kant sat down with Ericson Chan , Kate Smaje, and Willem Marx at The Wall Street Journal House in Davos to unpack that question. The conversation went beyond the usual AI hype to talk about what real transformation looks like and what it demands from leaders. Here's what stood out: Software developers are the canary in the coal mine. What's happening now in engineering—10x productivity jumps, entire processes collapsing into models—will ripple through every knowledge function. The question isn't whether this affects your organization, but how soon. Hire for high agency, not just skill sets. The organizational structures that work today won't work in five years. The constant? People who can navigate complexity and hit objectives regardless of how the tools around them evolve. We're living in the in-between. AI is useful, but it's not yet autonomous. That changes in the next few years, and leaders need to start preparing now even if they don’t have a clear playbook already. We're seeing this transformation up close with customers in defense and government, where AI isn't just a productivity tool. It's mission-critical infrastructure that needs to work securely with proper safeguards in place. Photo by Maurizio Martorana for Dow Jones
Poolside
Software Development
San Francisco, California 25,109 followers
We build the models. You build the future.
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We build the models. You build the future. AGI for the enterprise, starting with software agents.
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- 51-200 employees
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- San Francisco, California
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- 2023
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Our Head of People, Beatriz Lourenço, was recently featured on The Breakthrough Hiring Show, sharing the story of scaling Poolside from 4 to 150+ employees in just over two years. Beatriz discusses how we've built a distributed R&D organization that attracts exceptional researchers globally, and why building the right team from day one has been critical to our mission. As we continue building toward AGI through software, we're actively hiring for critical roles, with particular focus on data pre-training and agentic capabilities. Interested in joining the mission? Explore open roles on our careers page: https://lnkd.in/eQVCWbz4 Listen to the full episode: https://lnkd.in/ehvks3h8
A few weeks ago, I had a pleasure to meet James Mackey and take part of his awesome podcast - if you are curious about the very early stages of poolside and what it takes to hire from scratch, give is a listen 😊 https://lnkd.in/eSNqW_38
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We're in Davos this week! Eiso Kant, Noah Smith, Margarida Garcia, and Philip Drury are on the ground at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 connecting with customers and leaders across AI, infrastructure, and public policy—continuing conversations about how frontier AI transforms from compute into intelligence. If you're attending and want to connect, drop a comment below!
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Our Co-Founder and Co-CEO Eiso Kant explains our path to AGI and how we're now in AI's "awkward teenage years." Watch the full session at the AI Engineer Code Summit in New York: https://lnkd.in/eRUdsvh8
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AI should widen our ambitions, not narrow our responsibility. In this clip from Eiso Kant's conversation with Linda Lacina on the World Economic Forum’s Meet the Leader podcast, he talks about the human role as systems get more capable: we set intent, apply judgment, and stay accountable while using AI to push the frontier of what we can build. Full episode in comments. #AI #Leadership #FutureOfWork #WEF #poolside
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Just got back from NeurIPS – what an incredible week! 🌟 California sun, inspiring talks, old & new friends, countless interactions and insights. Loved representing poolside and sharing what we’re building 🔥 Heading back to London with tons of energy and inspiration! Till next time 👋
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Check out the latest research from BNVT Capital on how putting AI at the core of innovation and product development will define the next generation of secure platforms and global resilience, with input from our co-Founder & co-CEO Eiso Kant.
AI is redefining security at a system level - and most nations, enterprises, and individuals are nowhere near ready. AI has lowered the cost of cyber attacks while increasing the complexity of defense. From state-led operations to enterprise breaches and hyper-personalized scams, the threat surface is now fully algorithmic. Key takeaways from our conversations with 50+ CISOs and hundreds of cyber security founders suggests: ➡️ Security can’t be bolted on anymore. It has to be AI-native by design - architected into identity, data flows, infrastructure, and the governance fabric itself. ➡️ System-level thinking is no longer optional. Point solutions won’t survive an environment where both attackers and defenders iterate in real time. Those who build with AI at the core, not as an add-on, will define the next generation of secure platforms and global resilience. As the game has changed so must the architecture. More on this in the next instalment of our #BenevolentDisruptor interview series with Eiso Kant, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of poolside. 🎙️ Stay tuned.
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Wrapping up an inspiring #NeurIPS2025! Amazing conversations with researchers and talented individuals. Thank you, San Diego. Interested in joining our team? Visit https://lnkd.in/eQVCWbz4. We can't wait to meet you.
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Final day at AWS re:Invent! Stop by booth 802 for last-minute demos and conversations. https://lnkd.in/eR2Nv8pQ
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Starting soon! Join Cory Dobson and Ivo Pinto for "Dive into Poolside: AI Models for Highly-Secure Software Environments" at 2:30 PM. MGM | Level 1 | Grand 116 AWS re:Invent https://lnkd.in/eR2Nv8pQ
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