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joshuamarch

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I'm a serial entrepreneur who has built companies in London, New York, and San Francisco. Over my career I have raised $75m of venture capital, with two exits. Most recently I was the cofounder and CEO of SCiFi Foods, an a16z-backed cultivated meat company based in San Francisco; prior to that I was the founder and CEO of Conversocial, an enterprise SaaS company that grew to $15m ARR before acquisition by Verint; and before that I started one of the world's first Facebook app development agencies, iPlatform, which was acquired by Betapond. I read a lot of science fiction, workout, play boardgames when I can (and even design them sometimes!), and think about the future.
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joshuamarch··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
Veritus Agent | Founding AI Engineer | San Francisco (Onsite) | Full-time https://veritusagent.ai

Veritus Agent is building fully compliant AI agents for regulated industries—starting with financial services. We’re applying voice and language models to deeply human problems, with real-time agent orchestration, adaptive workflows, and strict compliance guardrails built in from day one.

We’re an early-stage startup led by a repeat founder (prev: $15M ARR SaaS exit) and moving fast. Our first use case is collections—but the infrastructure we’re building has much broader applications in servicing, fintech, and beyond.

We’re hiring a founding full-stack AI engineer to:

• Build multi-channel AI agents (voice + messaging) on top of LLMs and voice AI

• Develop guardrails, compliance filters, and eval systems

• Help shape our internal orchestration + CRM platform

• Integrate with real-world systems like payments and loan management APIs

You should be:

• An AI-native builder with deep experience using APIs like OpenAI, Claude, Whisper, etc.

• Comfortable working autonomously and quickly in high-ambiguity, zero-to-one environments

• Excited about joining a small team with a high-performance culture

• Bonus: Background in enterprise software or fintech

We’re based in SF and the roll will be onsite or hybrid.

Email me directly: josh [at] veritusagent [dot] ai

joshuamarch··on YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
It's hard to judge any case without seeing the full information. But based on the post, the company agreed to pay him to do design work, which he then did. If they change their mind a few days later, that's their issue - they are still legally bound to pay. I would never not pay a freelancer I hired, unless they literally didn't do the work.
joshuamarch··on YC NYC, September 26
We would love to have you over here:)
joshuamarch··on False Alarm: Google Circles Not Coming Now, And Probably Not Ever
Although they're obviously doing something around social search, as in their own system:

http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/search/social#socialcircle

joshuamarch··on Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients
I think the key thing here is 'what are we betting on?'. The analogy to Facebook doesn't work, as the developers have bet on different things. The apps that Twitter are calling out are ones that are trying to replace Twitter itself as a consumption device for end-users. Can you name one major Facebook app that does that? I can't. When Facebook saw a good pure social innovation in an app, they didn't hesitate to copy it. However apps that have built on top of Facebook to add value in different ways have been actively supported by Facebook for years. Twitter themselves in the announcement make this distinction - do something different than just trying to replace us for end users (e.g. a business management tool, a cool data analysis tool) and we'll support you; otherwise get lost.

I don't really think this is hostility - I think it makes sense for Twitter and for developers; people who've just been trying to replace Twitter themselves were always fighting a losing battle.

joshuamarch··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring?
Soho, London

iPlatform Ltd

We're expanding our team of developers to work both on interactive games and apps on Facebook for big brand clients, and also to work on Conversocial, a Python/Django SaaS tool to help companies manage conversations with their customers across social platforms. We're a bootstrapped start-up, have gone from 2 to 10 people in two years and now looking to grow fast. We buy lunch for everyone every day;p

http://theiplatform.com/jobs/

joshuamarch··on HN London Meetup
Awesome I'll be there. we're hiring as well, so if you're looking come find me there:p (python/django - theiplatform.com)
joshuamarch··on Safari 5
I love how fast Safari 5 is (faster than Chrome for me) - but the UI of Chrome just makes browsing and navigation much, much better (auto hiding everything you don't need, combining URL and search bar etc). Apple should have learned from Chrome, it's superior.
joshuamarch··on Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?
My company iPlatform is looking for great devs to join us in Soho, London - we're building products to help companies manage conversations online, funded by a service side building Facebook apps for big brands. http://theiplatform.com/jobs/ - we code in Python. Come say hello!
joshuamarch··on Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do?
I strongly recommend you read 'Four steps to the Epiphany' by Steve Blank. As a business focused founder, you need to be handling customer development - really going out there, talking to customers, understanding who is your core market, getting paying customers, validating this into a proper scalable business, and developing your company positioning. That's a LOT of work - but it's ESSENTIAL for the success of any company. I'm on my 3rd business, and the 2nd one crashed because I didn't understand this. No business exists in a vacuum - what your product-focused founders are doing is important, but your role in developing the customer understanding and scalable business model is equally so.
joshuamarch··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Great app - not a fan of paypal though!