Samar Abbas
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Samar Abbas
@SamarAtTemporal
Co-founder/CEO of Temporal Technologies (@temporalio)






"We are clearly entering a world where a product-minded engineer is now empowered to produce software without writing a line of code for it." In this conversation, Temporal CEO Samar Abbas joins a16z GPs Sarah Wang and Raghu Raghuram to cover: - Why agents are going from short-lived and interactive to long-running and async - Why the engineer of the future manages 15 parallel AI tasks at once - How OpenAI Codex runs millions of concurrent agent executions on Temporal - How real-time context engineering is exploding on Temporal - Why SaaS isn't dead, and value is migrating to APIs 00:00 Introduction 04:03 Temporal's origin story 11:14 Why agents raise the stakes 16:00 Specialized agents need durable RPC 25:20 Deep research agents 30:58 Execution histories as a superpower 39:04 Minimal viable long-running agent architecture 45:07 Context engineering at scale 52:40 Where value accrues: The "five-layer cake" and breakout AI applications @SamarAtTemporal @sarahdingwang @RaghuRaghuram

Congrats to @SamarAtTemporal & the @Temporalio team on the $300M Series D! 🌟👏 Temporal provides the infrastructure layer that helps teams run long-lived, stateful AI applications reliably & at scale, so developers can focus on innovation We’re proud back Temporal as they continue to help companies move agentic AI out of the lab & into the real world.






Agents SDK + @temporalio = durable, production-ready agents. Wrap your agent logic in a Temporal workflow to persist state, survive crashes, auto-retry failures, and run for days—with just a few lines of code. Here's how it works: youtube.com/watch?v=fwh21R…



Congrats to @temporalio on their Series C! temporal.io/blog/temporal-…

Congratulations to the @temporalio team on a big Series C! We at @sequoia partnered with @mfateev and @SamarAtTemporal more than five years ago, and what an amazing journey it has been! Durable Execution has grown from an obscure idea to a mission-critical technology that underpins money movement, short-term rental bookings, fast food orders, food delivery, and many AI use cases .. Could not be more proud of this team and what they have achieved so far. And even more excited about what's to come!

Congrats, @temporalio! We're proud to back the company in its $146M Series C. Temporal's redefining durable execution, powering mission-critical & AI-driven workloads for teams at Snap, Netflix, Datadog & more. techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/tem…



