tl;dr — thank you @vmg, @TomasReimers, @gregfoster996, and @MerrillLutsky for making Origin possible …my personal origin story with Origin... Two years ago my co-founders @ai_luce and @robbiefigs and I began an M&A process for our fintech, Maza. We poured our heart and soul into it, helping hundreds of thousands of immigrants get financial services, stay tax-compliant, and start businesses. We raised over $20 million across a few rounds. We ultimately joined forces with @FlexSuperApp and the indomitable @zaidrmn. At Flex I focused on infrastructure and growth while my co-founders jumped into program management, compliance, and investor relations. We took a high-slope business and somehow made the slope even steeper. But personally I was starting to feel some distance from fintech and our customers. I’d been experimenting with dev tools constantly, and pretty randomly an email landed from @gregfoster996 about working with @graphite, which had just raised a massive Series B. I’d used Graphite in the early days and saw a massive leap from the company I remembered. I met Greg shortly after and decided to interview for their first external eng management hire. I’d been saying for a while that the next bottleneck would be code review and verification, and Graphite seemed best positioned to solve it. What sold me was the people. Greg had assembled a killer team of motivated engineers in NYC. My peers would be @_nicholas_yan and @kushxg — leaders wise beyond their years. I met Greg’s co-founders @TomasReimers and @MerrillLutsky, both of whom carried an intensity I knew was a prerequisite to winning the startup game. Then came the @Cursor acquisition. Once Graphite became part of Cursor we got hard at work building Origin, a full-fledged git forge designed for agentic scale. Companies everywhere are drowning in the volume of code agents are writing, and more of them are moving to monorepos so agents can make cross-cutting changes in one place. Origin is built for that world. Through Cursor we met the incredible @vmg, who architected the powerful and performant distributed system behind Origin. Working with and learning from a truly one-of-a-kind engineer like him has been a joy. We’ll share more architecture details soon but just know, @vmg is the GOAT when it comes to git and systems engineering. And somehow, through this process, Cursor itself was acquired by @SpaceXAI — an acquisition I personally believe will forever change AI and humanity’s destiny across the stars. But for now, my team and I are focused on building the most performant and most reliable git forge in the world, ready for agentic usage. Anyhow, this is a long-winded way of saying thank you to everyone who’s been on the path to launching Origin. Please check it out and try it.