# Serval News

**Jul 28, 2026**  
[Serval Launches Program to Transform Employees Into Future Founders](/content/serval-news/serval-launches-program-to-transform-employees-into-future-founders/index.html)

**Jul 28, 2026**  
[Our approach to hiring: fewer, better, every time](/content/serval-news/our-approach-to-hiring-fewer-better-every-time/index.html)

**Jul 14, 2026**  
[Raising the automation ceiling](/content/serval-news/raising-the-automation-ceiling/index.html)  
What we learned building proactive agents

**Jun 30, 2026**  
[Introducing Catalyst: Automating a task forever should be easier than doing it manually once](/content/serval-news/introducing-catalyst-automating-a-task-forever-should-be-easier-than-doing-it-manually-once/index.html)  
Automation tools have been around for decades. Serval changes the math on when it’s worth reaching for them - by making tasks easier to automate than do manually once.

**Jun 23, 2026**  
[Carl Eschenbach's Blueprint for Building Lasting Companies in the AI Era](/content/serval-news/carl-eschenbach-s-blueprint-for-building-lasting-companies-in-the-ai-era/index.html)  
From scaling VMware to $7B and serving as the CEO of Workday to investing in the future as a partner at Sequoia, Carl Eschenbach shares the principles he's carried across four decades of building and scaling enterprise technology's most enduring companies.

**Jun 16, 2026**  
[Hire High-Agency People](/content/serval-news/hire-high-agency-people/index.html)  
I have 11 direct reports, while our CTO Alex has somewhere around 30, and I expect those numbers to increase as our team grows.

**Jun 10, 2026**  
[Do the hard things, always](/content/serval-news/do-the-hard-things-always/index.html)  
How Serval is building a universal automation platform to eliminate manual operational work across companies.

**Jun 1, 2026**  
[Serval’s Three Operating Principles](/content/serval-news/serval---operating-principles/index.html)  
We don't have a culture deck. We have three operating principles.