Summation with Auren Hoffman · 2026-05-26 · 50 min
Jake Stauch is the co-founder and CEO of Serval, the AI-native enterprise service management platform. Serval was founded in 2024 and has already raised over $125M across rounds led by Redpoint and Sequoia at a $1B+ valuation. Before Serval, Jake spent five years on the product team at Verkada and earlier founded NeuroPlus, a brain-sensing hardware company that made video games for kids with ADHD. In this episode of Summation, Jake and Auren discuss: Why Anthropic has added more ARR in the past few months than ServiceNow has in the past 20 years The "forward deployed engineer" hire and why he recruits future founders instead of solutions engineers Why talent density is the only remaining moat in the age of AI The Silicon Valley collusion around not poaching each other's employees You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Jake Stauch on X at @jakeserval
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