▶ 59:30 · $FACTORY · Eno Reyes: Factory targets 100% hiring via founder acquisitions — mission-aligned builders over pedigree

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Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive

2026-08-29 · 14 company · 8 thematic

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eno reyes

CTO and co-founder of Factory, an autonomous software development company. Former Microsoft employee (1.5 years). Focuses on AI harness architecture, outcome-based pricing, sovereign intelligence for enterprises, and founder-acquisition hiring strategy.

harry stebbings

Founder of 20VC (The Twenty Minute VC), one of the most popular venture-capital podcasts, and its associated fund.

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“we expect 100% of our future hires to come through acquiring companies and bringing their founders and teams into factory... the people that we're looking at are already deep in the weeds of building harnesses for software development wher…”

—eno reyes

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