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▶ 17:06 · $NOW · ServiceNow's manual workflow model disrupted by AI-native instant automation
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Sequoia Capital

Rebuilding IT From the Ground Up for the AI Age: Serval's Jake Stauch

2026-05-19 · 4 company · 6 thematic
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jake stauch

Founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-native enterprise service management platform. Previously founded Verkada.

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“in the past couple of months, Anthropic has added more ARR than ServiceNow has in the past 20 years. And so, does it really make sense for them to take their best and brightest people to throw them at this problem that even if they are ver…”
—jake stauch

episode shorts · 5

Delete the work nobody signed up for | Jake Stauch, Serval

The hard part of enterprise AI isn't reasoning | Jake Stauch, S…

Describe the workflow. The code appears. | Jake Stauch, Serval

The simple test most automation platforms fail | Jake Stauch, S…

Employees want autonomy. Organizations don't. | Jake Stauch, Se…

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