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I lead product at DualEntry, the ERP built from the ground up to solve what legacy…
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Andy Woods posted thisI’m hiring for three PM roles at DualEntry, the AI-native ERP driving a continuous close. ERP is a $200B+ market running on 20+ year-old software that nobody likes and no company has been able to fully replace, because migrations were too painful and the accounting depth took half a decade to rebuild. AI collapsed both problems at once. We raised $90M from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, GV (Google Ventures), Contrary, and Vesey Ventures to build the first accounting tools people love to use. Our bet is an accounting team of two at scale: a preparer, an approver, and agents underneath both. Revenue growing faster than headcount is a software problem before it is an accounting one, and it's already working. Slash, a $300M ARR fintech, closes its books with a two-person finance team. On Track Storage runs 43 locations across 6 entities with one accountant. Multiple publicly traded companies close their books on DualEntry. The roles: PM, Growth Track. Our pitch to prospects is "load your real books and tie out the balances before you sign anything." Controllers and CFOs live in their ERP for years, so the purchase is high stakes and the trial has to de-risk us fast. That means accurate results from software their team actually wants to use, proven on their own data before they buy. We would rather they test us on their messy books than on a demo dataset. As our first growth PM, you own awareness through activation, and your job is to move more of that evaluation into the product. PM, Technical Track. You own our hardest technical areas end to end: agents, machine learning, and the call on when an LLM earns its place over a deterministic workflow. You'll work out how to ingest data from dozens of systems, keep it synchronized, and create bi-directional workflows. The agents you build post to a real general ledger, so you’ll create the evals system that stands between a model and a failed audit. PM, Accounting Track. We build for the auditor in the room. You'll own the controls that keep a customer audit-ready at all times: approval policies, period locks, and the immutability guarantees underneath them. But the people living in those controlled workflows every day are accountants, so the same features have to be idiomatic, intuitive, and match how the work actually runs. You define what audit-ready means in DualEntry and build the accounting-native UX that delivers it. Links in the first comment. If someone came to mind while reading, send them the listing!
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Andy Woods reposted thisAndy Woods reposted thisOur investor Vinod Khosla bought the Seahawks, so we decided to run the largest CFO Fantasy league. The winner is going to the Super Bowl! 🏈 Finance leaders from Docker, DuckDuckGo, Polymarket, AngelList, and more have already signed up. The overall champion gets 2 Super Bowl tickets & bragging rights. Division winners win NFL game tickets of their choosing. Every signup gets NFL Sunday Ticket subscription. Register by Wednesday, 9/2 Draft: Thursday, 9/3 Spots are limited, join us. Link in comments.
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Andy Woods shared thisOne thing I loved at Cockroach Labs was how much love and care went into documenting the product. I'm so excited to take that learning and bring it to DualEntry and to treat docs as a first class product surface area!Andy Woods shared thisWe just launched DualEntry Docs 👏 DualEntry Docs brings our accountant guides, developer docs, integrations, release notes, and product guidance into one place, so you can get questions answered without digging through pages and pages. And depending on how you work, there are 3 ways to get to that same information: → Go straight to the Docs and find the answer yourself → Use our MCP server to bring that information into the AI tools you already work with → Or ask Accounting Intelligence Copilot directly inside DualEntry However you choose to access it, it all comes from the same source of truth. See what this looks like in practice 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEYNTtaP
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Andy Woods reposted thisAndy Woods reposted thisWe're kicking off our Ctrl+AI Series 🚀 Episode 1 is live and we're starting with a story that should make every finance team pay attention. James A., Financial Controller at Skool, built a system that handles 97% of transactions automatically. In this session, you'll get: → A fireside with Andy Woods on James's AI and automation journey → Live walkthroughs of workflows he built → How he thinks about building systems instead of doing tasks → Live Q&A. Ask James A. your questions directly. Whether you're a controller looking to cut manual work or an FP&A lead curious about what's possible, this is the session to start with. 📅 Wednesday, June 24th, 1pm EDT Register now [Link in comments]
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Andy Woods reposted thisAndy Woods reposted this❗New Harmonic Hot 25❗ Resolve AI joins Lovable as the only two startups to top the Harmonic Hot 25 twice! This comes after a $40M April extension of their Series A, this time at a $1.5B valuation. Up 50% form the February round. Salient jumps to second and our agent Scout believes they’ve surpassed $30M in revenue and are likely to raise early next year. Aaru and Simile land in 3rd and 6th. Both are building simulation platforms to take on legacy market research. Aaru raised in December, but X-following indicates interest from Benchmark, Khosla and Felicis 👁️ 👁️ Thousands of investors use Harmonic every day. These are the startups they’re watching most closely as we approach Q3: 🥇 Resolve AI - Spiros Xanthos, Mayank Agarwal 🥈 Salient - Ari M., Mukund Tibrewala 🥉 Aaru - Cameron Fink, Ned Koh, John K. 4️⃣ DualEntry - Santiago Nestares, Benedict Dohmen 5️⃣ Traversal - Anish Agarwal, Raaz Dwivedi, Raj Agrawal, Ahmed Lone 6️⃣ Simile - Joon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein, Percy Liang, Lainie Yallen 7️⃣ Periodic Labs - Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Liam Fedus 8️⃣ Brain Co. - Elad Gil, Jared Kushner Et al. 9️⃣ Higgsfield AI - Alex Mashrabov, Yerzat Dulat, Mahi de Silva 🔟 7AI - Yonatan Striem Amit, Lior Div See the full list in the comments.
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Andy Woods reposted thisAndy Woods reposted thisToday, we’re announcing that Manifest OS has raised a $60 million Series A at a $750M valuation to power the next generation of fully AI-native law firms. Thank you Menlo Ventures Kleiner Perkins First Round Capital and Quiet Capital for believing in this vision. After two years of hard work on this mission, I am humbled and privileged to finally share our story. Full video explaining who we are: https://lnkd.in/eGM4DEYH As an immigrant who navigated the long journey to become a US citizen, and later as an entrepreneur building companies, I experienced first hand how broken the legal system is. The billable hour makes costs unpredictable and the process slow, archaic and overwhelming. Manifest OS isn’t solving this problem by just selling AI to lawyers; we are redesigning the law firm business model from the ground up to prioritize certainty, transparency, and speed. By rebuilding the role of the attorney for the AI era, we’re making high-quality representation accessible to the 80% of businesses and consumers who currently can't afford it. We incubated the first Manifest OS powered law firm in business immigration law just over 18 months ago. Since then, we’ve seen Manifest OS scale to powering over 100 attorneys supporting more than 3,000 clients nationally, ranging from small businesses and individuals to some of the leading technology companies in America. Beyond grateful to our investors Shawn Carolan, Croom Beatty, Ilya Fushman, Bill Trenchard, Josh Kopelman, Michael Bloch, Matt Humphrey, David Greenbaum, Stewart Butterfield, Scott Belsky, Gokul Rajaram, Noah Desai Weiss, David Schellhase, A. Toby Espinosa, Zachary Smith, Guillaume "𝑮" Cabane, Micah Moreau, Michael Kives, Bryan Baum, Jason Shuman, Mike McNamara, Howard Rosenberg, and our rockstar team: Tara Neuman, James F. Cariello, Monica Desai Weiss, Avi Goldenberg, Shivanie Barapatre, Alex Shevtsov, Eric Oberman, Matt Gale, Daniel Dong, Gedalia Gillis and more. If you’re inspired by our mission, check out our open roles: https://lnkd.in/eVv5SAPz
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Andy Woods posted thisAfter an incredible 8.5 years at Cockroach Labs, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined DualEntry as Head of Product. CRL changed the trajectory of my career. I’ll be forever grateful for the chance to help build CockroachDB from pre-revenue to category leader alongside some of the smartest people in the industry. I was immediately drawn to DualEntry for the same reason I joined CRL: they're rebuilding from the ground up to solve what legacy systems can't. We're the first AI-native ERP built after ChatGPT — designed for how finance teams actually work today, not retrofitted for it. The early traction speaks for itself, from startups to companies on the NYSE. One customer, Slash, runs a $140M ARR business with a finance team of one. I'm honored to join a team backed by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed, who co-led our $90M Series A, alongside GV (Google Ventures), Contrary, and Vesey Ventures. Huge thanks to Benedict Dohmen and Santiago Nestares for the opportunity. I couldn't be more fired up to get to work! P.S. We’re building fast! If you’re interested in defining the future of AI-native finance, DM me!
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Andy Woods posted thisI'm proud to announce that I've been awarded U.S. Patent 12,499,127 — "Systems and Methods for Controlling Replica Placement in Multi-Region Databases." The problem: In globally distributed databases, you need data close to users for low latency, replicated for fault tolerance, and constrained to specific regions for compliance. These goals often conflict, and giving users control without overwhelming complexity is hard. The solution: This patent covers the architecture behind CockroachDB's super regions, secondary regions, and survivability goals — abstractions that let users declare what they need (survive a zone failure, keep EU data in Europe) while the system figures out how to place voting and non-voting replicas optimally. As a PM, I believe in understanding the entire technical systems. The best product decisions come from knowing what's actually possible, and what tradeoffs you're making. Grateful to my co-inventors Nathan VanBenschoten, Adam Storm, Arul Ajmani, Rebecca Taft, Richard Loveland, Peyton Walters, Ebony Brown , and Oliver Tan.
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Andy Woods liked thisAndy Woods liked thisToday I’m officially launching the Rogers Lab at Stanford! 🚀 We study how cardiac arrhythmias begin and persist, from atrial fibrillation to sudden cardiac death, and translate those insights into signal-analysis methods, machine-learning models, medical devices, and clinical studies aimed at improving diagnosis, risk prediction, and treatment. Our new website brings together our work to date in arrhythmia mechanisms, cardiac-signal AI, clinical research, publications, and free EP tools, including the DFR Calipers. We’re open to collaborations and for trainees, students, clinicians, engineers, and researchers interested in working with the lab. If our interests overlap, please reach out to me here or at rogerslab-info@stanford.edu. https://lnkd.in/gDZqJiPP With appreciation to Sanjiv Narayan, Paul Wang, Eldrin Lewis, the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford Department of Medicine, and Stanford Cardiovascular Health for supporting this effort! #CardiacEP #Cardiology #Bioengineering #AIinMedicine
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Andy Woods liked thisAndy Woods liked thisBREAKING: Socure has raised $156M at a $5.2 BILLION valuation and acquired agentic AI startup Fravity AI. 🚨 The round was led by Summit Partners, with participation from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo, DocuSign and others. Socure is currently at $364M ARR, up 63% YoY, and serves 3,000+ enterprise customers including 19 of the 20 largest US banks. Quick TL;DR: - $156M new funding - $5.2B valuation - $364M ARR - 63% YoY growth - 3,000+ enterprise customers - $742M+ raised in total Fravity will now be integrated into Socure’s RiskOS platform to automate fraud, risk and compliance investigations. BIG round + acquisition on the same day. Congrats! --- Want more startup & VC news like this? Join 10k+ founders & VCs reading Inside/VC twice a week: https://lnkd.in/dJM9V5dE
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Andy Woods liked thisAndy Woods liked thisHappy back-to-school season! Last week, I had my first class teaching environmental law as an adjunct professor at UIC. With a nod to Zyg Plater’s only rule for how you put together a syllabus, we started with the common law. We also did a day-one issue spotter brainstorm on data centers. I’m excited to explore this evolving field with students this fall! And I’m glad they have an old school chalkboard in our classroom, and will aspire to be as legible as possible.
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Andy Woods liked thisAndy Woods liked thisWe just launched DualEntry Docs 👏 DualEntry Docs brings our accountant guides, developer docs, integrations, release notes, and product guidance into one place, so you can get questions answered without digging through pages and pages. And depending on how you work, there are 3 ways to get to that same information: → Go straight to the Docs and find the answer yourself → Use our MCP server to bring that information into the AI tools you already work with → Or ask Accounting Intelligence Copilot directly inside DualEntry However you choose to access it, it all comes from the same source of truth. See what this looks like in practice 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEYNTtaP
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Andy Woods liked thisAndy Woods liked thisI am excited to announce I have been accepted to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassadorship. 🎉 Looking forward to continue working with the community! Huge thanks to everyone who contributes for keeping this ecosystem moving forward.
Experience
Education
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Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Activities and Societies: Kellogg Growth Scholarship, Dean's Service Award, Chair Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference, EATZ Director, Beta Gamma Sigma
I am an MBA graduate with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management who majored in marketing with a focus on entrepreneurship.
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Publications
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Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB
SIGMOD
See publicationA database service is required to meet the consistency, performance, and availability goals of modern applications serving a global user-base. Configuring a database deployed across multiple regions such that it fulfils these goals requires significant expertise. In this paper, we describe how CockroachDB makes this easy for developers by providing a high-level declarative syntax that allows expressing data access locality and availability goals through SQL statements. These high-level goals…
A database service is required to meet the consistency, performance, and availability goals of modern applications serving a global user-base. Configuring a database deployed across multiple regions such that it fulfils these goals requires significant expertise. In this paper, we describe how CockroachDB makes this easy for developers by providing a high-level declarative syntax that allows expressing data access locality and availability goals through SQL statements. These high-level goals are then mapped to database configuration, replica placement, and data partitioning decisions. We show how all layers of the database, from the SQL Optimizer to Replication, were enhanced to support multi-region workloads. We also describe a new Transaction Management protocol that enables local, strongly consistent reads from any database replica. Finally, the paper includes an extensive evaluation demonstrating that CockroachDB's new declarative SQL syntax for multi-region clusters is easy to use and supports a variety of configuration options with different performance tradeoffs to benefit a variety of workloads. We also show that throughput scales linearly with the number of regions, and the new Transaction Management protocol reduces tail latency by over 10x compared to prior approaches.
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CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database
SIGMOD
See publicationWe live in an increasingly interconnected world, with
many organizations operating across countries or even continents. To serve their global user base, organizations are
replacing their legacy DBMSs with cloud-based systems capable of scaling OLTP workloads to millions of users.
CockroachDB is a scalable SQL DBMS that was built from
the ground up to support these global OLTP workloads
while maintaining high availability and strong consistency.
Just like its namesake…We live in an increasingly interconnected world, with
many organizations operating across countries or even continents. To serve their global user base, organizations are
replacing their legacy DBMSs with cloud-based systems capable of scaling OLTP workloads to millions of users.
CockroachDB is a scalable SQL DBMS that was built from
the ground up to support these global OLTP workloads
while maintaining high availability and strong consistency.
Just like its namesake, CockroachDB is resilient to disasters
through replication and automatic recovery mechanisms.
This paper presents the design of CockroachDB and its
novel transaction model that supports consistent geo-distributed transactions on commodity hardware. We describe how
CockroachDB replicates and distributes data to achieve fault
tolerance and high performance, as well as how its distributed
SQL layer automatically scales with the size of the database
cluster while providing the standard SQL interface that users
expect. Finally, we present a comprehensive performance
evaluation and share a couple of case studies of CockroachDB
users. We conclude by describing lessons learned while building CockroachDB over the last five years.
Patents
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING REPLICA PLACEMENT IN MULTI-REGION DATABASES
Issued US 12,499,127 В2
Systems and methods for controlling placement of replicas of data in a multi-region database are provided. A selection of a super region including at least first and second database regions can be received. A voting replica of data can be stored within the second database region based on the selection of the super region and a failure of the first database region. A selection of a secondary database region can be received. A voting replica of data can be stored within the secondary database…
Systems and methods for controlling placement of replicas of data in a multi-region database are provided. A selection of a super region including at least first and second database regions can be received. A voting replica of data can be stored within the second database region based on the selection of the super region and a failure of the first database region. A selection of a secondary database region can be received. A voting replica of data can be stored within the secondary database region based on the selection of the secondary database region and a failure of a primary database region. Non-voting replicas of data can be stored in a subset of a plurality of database regions. A selection of a restricted replica placement configuration can be received. The non-voting replicas can be removed from database regions based on the selection of the restricted replica placement configuration.
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Honors & Awards
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Kellogg on Growth Scholarship Recipient
Kellogg School of Management
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iContact Scholarship Recipient
iContact Foundation
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