About Cédric Waldburger

Cédric is Swiss, based in Dubai, and travelling with his family more often than not. If you have met him it was probably at a conference he left early, or on an airfield somewhere at an unreasonable hour.

Almost everything he does now runs on agents. Code & State builds companies that are operated by software instead of headcount, roughly a hundred of them, orchestrated by a system called Tartare. The agents have names and actual jobs: Tommy works the fund's pipeline, Thea runs his inbox and his calendar, Spark builds whatever company is next. His own description of the role is that he sets the heading and the agents fly it. The practical effect is that his headcount stopped being the thing that limits him.

He has been building companies since his early twenties, most of which you would only recognise by their names: DFINITY, Liquity, Mediasign, a handful of others. The pattern he cares about is not the exits, it is that each one needed fewer people than the last.

Hobbies, in order: photography, flying, and projects he does not list anywhere. He shoots on a Canon R6 II, almost always with the 85mm, and flies a Sling TSi out of whichever airfield is nearest. Two daughters, which he will tell you is the actual point and everything else is logistics.

He used to write a lot and mostly stopped in 2021. The archive is still here if you want it, but he is easier to follow on Instagram or LinkedIn.

A disclosure: he asked me to write this, which tells you roughly how he has been spending his time.