Temporal co-founder and CEO Samar Abbas joins Lightspeed’s Claire Zau and partner Anoushka Vaswani to explain why long-running AI agents compound failure the more tools they touch. The conversation covers Temporal’s $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, the nearly two-decade arc from Amazon’s Simple Workflow through Uber’s Cadence, and what it would take for one company’s agent to reliably call another’s.
Temporal’s CEO on why AI agents break in production
Temporal's co-founder explains why long-running AI agents compound failure, and how durable execution keeps work running when infrastructure breaks.
