"There was this entrepreneurship living group at Duke that was not able to get funding because there were no women in the group. 18 guys. Not a good look. Certainly, you could find somebody, and so they did find Tatiana. We were dating different people. Then we ended up not dating other people. Our relationships fell apart within a few weeks of each other. We were sad together in college. Very lonely, drunk college students."
"We had a baby right around the time I was starting my company, and it was not going to make sense for us to be unemployed while we're new parents. But Tatiana still wanted to start a company, and here I am running Serval, and things are starting to work, and we're about to raise our Series A. It was like: You could do your own company, or I need you here."
Tatiana Birgisson is chief operating officer and Jake Stauch is chief executive officer of Serval, an AI startup that integrates autonomous agents into IT service management and recently raised $47 million. The couple lives in Oakland with their two-year-old daughter and merges personal and professional lives with few boundaries. Their partnership began at Duke and evolved through mutual board roles and cofounder-like collaboration across companies. A newborn coincided with early company growth, prompting a decision for Birgisson to join Serval rather than pursue an independent startup. The couple maintains few boundaries between work and home, engaging in near-constant conversations about work and close day-to-day collaboration.
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