
Inside Temporal’s journey to a $12.55B valuation, and its bet on building a backbone for AI agents
One of the hottest infrastructure companies in AI today traces its roots to work its founders were doing before the cloud was even a thing. Fresh off a big funding round, Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev explain the decades of work behind their solution, and why AI agents make it even more relevant.
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