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Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval) Oct 23, 2025 · 40 mentions

• ▶ 0:12 Brett Berson For today's episode, I'm sitting down with Jake Stotch, co-founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-native platform for IT teams. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 3:15 Jake Stauch And I definitely took that concept with me to Serval of what platform can we sell that there's existing spend, there's an existing category that we can go after, but we can actually package something new and differentiated within that, but…
• ▶ 7:25 Brett Berson Very, very rarely does that come along and you're obviously working on a system of record style product in Servo. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 10:45 Brett Berson What's the first kernel of Serval? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 17:37 Brett Berson Are there other questions that you asked or other things that, that you found either helped you rule opportunities out or, you know, go deeper into, to what ended up becoming servile?
• ▶ 26:14 Brett Berson What at Serval is the Verkata SMS part of the demo?
• ▶ 43:20 Jake Stauch The way we want Serval to feel to the end user is it's somebody that solves your problem or gets out of the way. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 47:16 Jake Stauch And I think Serval has a unique position there.
• ▶ 48:10 Brett Berson And I'm interested in the context of you building Serval as your second company, the last big chapter, Verkata doing things in a very specific way. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 57:34 Brett Berson What is the role of a PM at Serval at some point in the future, or is the goal to never hire traditional product management? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:06:34 Jake Stauch Now they're incredibly more valuable because they can use servo and other tools to build really, really cool products and services.
• ▶ 1:10:41 Brett Berson It feels at least from a distance in the last call it three or four months that the amount of people that are joining the company, even at a relatively early stage has ticked up dramatically. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:13:57 Brett Berson Now, the other interesting thing on the talent side, at least in the past six months, is now you're starting even as a very early stage company to aggressively build out the go-to-market function. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:22:01 Brett Berson So you're sort of, you're, you're touching on this a little bit, but if you think about where Serval is today, how are those two ideas and the tension between them best expressed? 2 times in the scene