Elias Torres (@eliast) 's Twitter Profile
Elias Torres

@eliast

Founder and CEO of @Agency — previously built @Drift, @HubSpot, and @Performable. Invested in @Klaviyo, @Finix, @PostScriptIO, and dozens more.

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linkhttps://agency.inc/ calendar_today10-03-2008 01:50:08

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Every time someone sends me Replit or Cursor revenue, I remind me myself of stories like Amjad. It took us 3 years to $1M in revenue at Drift and 5 more to $100M. In the end it doesn’t even matter. Build something you are proud because customers love it. That’s why I am

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What’s the secret to building a billion-dollar company with just 100 people? Elias Torres joins Dr. Rana el Kaliouby to share why it’s not AI vs. humans — it’s AI + humans. He breaks down how human insight and AI efficiency supercharge growth. Watch: youtu.be/mwFqvNYa0TE?fe…

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Just wanted to say "you're welcome" to Anthropic for helping you achieve this milestone. Tokens are really expensive. Glad to do our part.

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This is nothing new. The same exact thing happens linearly when tens of founders hire the same person over the years and realize they were terrible. So much equity, time and money wasted with bad hires and most of it could be solved if you did more of one thing: References.

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Yesterday the team called me a boomer for using Perplexity. For the record, I use other tools. But the point is that my team members parents use Perplexity. Good for perplexity for attracting (me) the elderly. They are cooking.

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A leader said yesterday after proving our value that it depended on the team to adopt it. 🤷🏽‍♂️ I said maybe the team is not the right one.

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MCPs are just a whole bag of crap so far. They are being rushed for announcements, but local execution is terrible, hosted ones are rare. In reality, we are getting a much more smaller subset of the existing APIs and much harder to call than before. But it will get better.

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It's an open secret in the industry that the AI customer service tools with famous founders and hundreds of millions in funding are vaporware. Expect to see a bunch of companies announce they're using AI CS from actual startups over the next few weeks.

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Request for Startup: Build an AI response system for wealthy neighborhood residents so they can report all of their suspicious activity ALL DAY.

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Absolutely. Hate famous founders, millions in funding and vaporware. Let’s get them all! We need real solutions with real AI problem solving.

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real ones have ✓ dropped a prod table ✓ gaslit themselves into thinking it was staging ✓ chatgpt'd “undo sql drop pls help”