Chamath Palihapitiya announced on June 29 that he is taking the CEO seat at 8090 Labs, the enterprise AI coding startup he founded in January 2024. He is doing it on the back of a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures. It is his first full-time operating role in fifteen years, since he left Facebook in 2011.
The product is a “Software Factory” that automates the full software development pipeline for regulated buyers, specifically healthcare, finance, and government. Ernst & Young launched a delivery product on the platform in March called EY.ai PDLC and has been quoting internal numbers of 70 percent cost efficiency gains and up to 80x delivery speedups. Those are the sort of numbers you would expect a company charging by the seat to be quietly terrified of.
Which brings us to the cap table. The lead is Salesforce Ventures, arm of the archetypal seat-based SaaS company that also happens to be building its own Agentforce agents. Around it: WndrCo (Jeffrey Katzenberg), Craft Ventures (David Sacks), The Production Board (David Friedberg), LAUNCH (Jason Calacanis). Every single one of those is an All-In podcast co-host or close associate. Angel checks came from Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo. This is either the most inside-baseball round of 2026 or one very expensive listener-appreciation drive.
There are two ways to read Salesforce leading. Charitable read: 8090 builds on top of Salesforce’s platform, and an agentic coding layer that ships software into Salesforce customers is a demand tailwind for Salesforce seats. Cynical read: Salesforce is buying optionality on the “software gets built, not bought” thesis before that thesis comes for its lunch money. Either way, one of the biggest packaged-software companies on earth just funded the most All-In-flavored bet against packaged software you could construct.