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Healthcare executives are handing work over to AI agents, but it may not be the work you'd expect. For our 2026 report, we surveyed 226 healthcare executives across 65 use cases, in partnership with Bain & Company. Here's the share of respondents running semi- or fully autonomous agents, by area: → Provider revenue cycle: 67% → Payer member engagement: 62% → Provider clinical: 4% Administrative work is where buyers already trust agents. The next unlock for clinical AI isn't better models. It's trust, liability clarity, and reimbursement. Read the full report: t.co/4wEbM3HIt2
“In the B2B cybersecurity market it’s all about big deals,” said Alon Jackon, CEO of @AstrixSecurity. Looking back, the CEO of Astrix Security would’ve invested more time to get to those $1M ARR deals. In his conversation with @AmitKarp, he shares the risks and rewards of building a big business → t.co/Llw7dSxeoa
Building in cybersecurity? Steal these 6 founder lessons from Alon Jackson and Idan Gour, who built @AstrixSecurity in five years and got acquired by @Cisco. A thread on what it actually took 🧵
2/ As a CEO, you need to admit when you’re wrong Astrix went through three taglines before landing on non-human identity. At first, Alon was personally against "non-human identity," saying it sounded too soft. But when customer surveys (and @Gartner_inc!) convinced him otherwise, he went back to his team and admitted he was wrong.
For 10 years, the Cloud 100 defined the best software companies—now, we’re launching the AI 100. In partnership with @NewcomerMedia, we’re creating a new annual ranking of the 100 most important private AI companies. Submissions are open through Oct. 15, 2026, and eligible companies must build AI or the systems AI runs on, regardless of fundraising size. From foundation models to robotics and beyond, nominate a company that you think should make the list 👉 t.co/pMCPqUvrLO
No market category. No name for the problem. Just conviction that machines, not people, were becoming the biggest blind spot in enterprise identity. Alon Jackson and Idan Gour built @AstrixSecurity from that bet, and @Cisco acquired it five years later. Alon sat down with Bessemer's @AmitKarp to talk about what it took, and how he maintained his conviction. Watch the full conversation → t.co/Ypn32y8OkE
1/ CEOs, the AI-native CFO is one of your highest-leverage hires. Only 24% of finance leaders are actively deploying AI today. Most are blocked by data quality, system fragmentation, and compliance concerns. 8 signs on what separates a great CFO from an average one, and the questions to ask when you're hiring. 🧵
2/ Hire the architect of the P&L, not a scorekeeper. Don't settle for someone who just manages budgets and reporting. The best CFOs partner with you to shape the company's financial architecture, from monetization design to capital sequencing.
Last year, 400+ healthcare execs told us what they expected from AI. This year, 226 told us where the value actually landed. In partnership with @BainandCompany, we surveyed across 65 use cases and built The ROI Scorecard. TL;DR: Returns arrived twice as fast as expected and concentrated in the back office. More below 🧵
In 2025, 84% of execs expected GenAI to transform clinical decisions within 3-5 years. Just a year later, 71% say it already has. But that’s not where the money is.
1/ The CEO playbook for hiring your next engineering leader. ⤵️ It's no longer about hiring the best functional experts and scaling a hierarchy. It's about redesigning your entire org structure to move at AI speed. Keep these things in mind while hiring. 🧵
2/ Start small and scale: Applying AI everywhere at once isn’t a hard and fast rule. Some of the engineering leaders getting the clearest results start with a small team (sometimes even an undersized scrum of 3-4 engineers) and then measure the output that team can hit before scaling the model org-wide.
New funds are here 🚀 $5.75 billion in new capital to continue the work in the AI era. Forged in steel. Building what’s next: youtu.be/uj-JAd2SE2I
$200M ARR and beyond. 🚀 Today we're celebrating Legora for reaching this incredible milestone and its continued success. @WeAreLegora took 18 months to go from $1M to $100M and less than six months to double it. Now, 130,000 lawyers use Legora monthly across 2,100 firms and legal teams in more than 80 countries. CEO @MaxJunestrand on their momentum → t.co/cLtfCKnoaZ
1/ The engineer's job is changing, and it's not because coding got faster. When you deploy autonomous agents at scale, the work itself transforms. You're not only writing code, you’re orchestrating, and the real work becomes the cascade of decisions you now have to make. Here's what that change looks like for engineers. 🧵
2/ The first shock is cognitive bandwidth. Every thread carries its own mental model, and you hold several partly-loaded models and none of them whole. Context switching is the dominant cost. You're managing more than you can deeply understand. This is what comprehension debt looks like.
Being a CEO is a decades-long marathon. Always on, 24/7 x 365 by 10. And having a supportive partner or community in your corner during the building journey is one of the most important things you need in this race. CEO @MaxJunestrand of @WeAreLegora shares his appreciation for his partner, and how they make it all happen together. Full conversation on YouTube: t.co/93v0L2q1OA
What are the new expectations for executives on how they’re building with AI? Introducing the “C-suite Spectrum.” On Atlas, Bessemer’s Talent Team breaks down the leadership profiles set to succeed in the AI reality where models change weekly, skill arbitrage is expanding across every function, and leadership is more creative than ever before. Learn more about the “builder-executives” CEOs are looking to hire → t.co/ykiuLs2V0J
New @hoh_pod is live! @stephenkraus chats with @AnthropicAI's Healthcare & Lifesciences Lead, Sarah Russell, MD. Her advice for healthcare founders: hire people smarter than you. A-list talent is a compounding advantage. Listen: bessemervp.team/4hqDePM
AI hasn't just changed how teams work. It's widened the gap between a great executive and an average one. We surveyed functional leaders across 100+ companies to understand how AI is enabling more integrated leadership models—elevating both strategic and hands-on capabilities. Here are 5 trends reshaping the C-suite right now 🧵
Engineering leaders are reimagining team operations to match the speed of shipping. 90% of our portfolio engineering teams are already deploying AI, with code generation up 180% and code review up 30%. The real question: have you redesigned the org around AI, or are you still running a 2022 team structure in a 2026 environment? A strong leader will rethink team ratios, how work is scoped, and how much coordination overhead, once led by mid-level management, can now be handled by AI tooling and smaller, autonomous pods. That's the gap between adopting AI and building for it..
Celebrating Fin’s $3.6B acquisition with @salesforce. As @TaliaGold shared, this is a comeback story, and we've had a front-row seat for all of it. We first invested in @intercom in 2014 when @fin_ai was one of the most exciting young SaaS companies in the world, led by @eoghan, @destraynor, and a team with an unusually clear vision of what software should feel like. 🧵
2/ Fin (formerly Intercom) became the category definer in customer communication. Then, like most SaaS after ZIRP, the company went through their own evolution. Growth stalled, and Eoghan returned as CEO in October 2022 after a two-year hiatus.
If you’re building in vertical AI, here are 6 founder lessons to steal from @MaxJunestrand of @WeAreLegora. He breaks it all down with @spdholakia in their latest conversation → youtu.be/24XgrnIWW3c See the lessons below 🧵
The only differentiation question that matters: What are we building that won't automatically fall into the bucket of *Claude does this*? And if your core thing is a chat UI, Max's advice is to think very hard about what you actually do differently.
🚀 @WeAreLegora skyrocketed from launch passing $100M ARR in just 18 months by selling into the most fortified organizations—law firms and enterprises that mark up contracts for sport. CEO and Co-founder @MaxJunestrand sat down with @spdholakia to tell us how: they offered a partnership, not a product.
The full conversation between Sameer and Max on how Legora built the operating layer for legal work, including pricing, hiring, and what survives model evolution. Watch the full conversation 👉youtu.be/24XgrnIWW3c
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 ⭐ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 20+ AI-pilled engineering teams → 63-pages of insights from teams winning at agentic development. Learn from @tryramp, @drivenets, @wonderful_ai, and more on how they set a new pace of innovation. Infrastructure enables the speed, but people and org structure decide whether it actually compounds. Get the research → t.co/akAwYDUNVW
1/ "We won't use AI in our codebase" is no longer a defensible security posture. The attacker is using AI against you regardless, so opting out doesn't lower your risk. It just means you find your vulnerabilities second. CISOs and engineering teams must cover the attack surface area in new ways. That’s why we’re introducing the Ten Commandments for Agentic Security. 🧵
2/ Choose your model path. Match the provider, region, retention, and execution boundary to the data you're sending and the actions the agent can take. Sensitive work moves toward regional, dedicated, or private execution. Your cloud account's defaults are not secure.
🚀 We're quadrupling down on @wonderful_ai with a $550M Series C. In 20 months, Bar Winkler and @lalazar have scaled to 100+ enterprise customers across 35 markets. They're building the agentic OS that will define how enterprises operate in the AI era. Just as cloud became the foundation of the modern enterprise, agentic operating systems will become the foundation of the AI-native enterprise. The agentic age is here. Wonderful is leading it. t.co/C4KuwR3iHE
