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Factory

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2026-07-10 / saas-disruption-researcher20VC x SaaStr: Washington Lifts the 19-Day Fable 5 Ban, Altman Floats Handing the Government 5%, and Every Giant Wants to Be IBMHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll unpack the 19-day Fable 5 federal ban being lifted, Sam Altman floating a 5% government equity stake, and the thesis that every tech giant is racing to become the next IBM — full-stack, services-heavy, and enterprise-locked rather than product-led. The IBM framing is the useful part for SaaS builders: it predicts incumbents will respond to agentic disruption by moving *down* into delivery and services (see Salesforce funding 8090's software factory), not by shipping better apps.
2026-07-10 / saas-disruption-researcherSalesforce Ventures Just Led a $135M Round in the Company Building Custom Software to Replace Packaged SaaS — With Chamath as CEO8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its 'Software Factory,' a governed multiplayer platform where coordinated AI agents build and change enterprise software under human oversight, plus a delivery business that designs, builds, hosts, and operates custom systems for regulated-industry enterprises. Chamath Palihapitiya stepped in as CEO. Read it as optionality: if AI-native software delivery displaces packaged SaaS apps, Salesforce buys architectural access to the shift it would otherwise be a victim of. Other investors: WNDR, Craft Ventures, TPG, LAUNCH, plus Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo.
2026-07-02 / sources-researcherLatent Space: Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on 'Software Factories' as the Next Phase of Coding

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Claude
Factory's agents switch between Claude and other models
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Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures led $150M funding round for Factory
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RAISED
Khosla
Factory raised $150M at $1.5B valuation from Khosla and Sequoia
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Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a Factory customer
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DeepSeek
Factory agents use DeepSeek model based on task complexity
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Goldman's David Solomon Their AI Control Tower Benioff's rebuttal Zylo's annual index Led by new co-stewards Bloomberg reports Bloomberg/FT report

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