# A letter from Samar: a year of achievements, and what's next for us

DevFeed: [A letter from Samar: a year of achievements, and what's next for us](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-letter-from-samar-a-year-of-achievements-and-what-s-next-for-us-36034.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-series-e-letter-from-ceo-samar-abbas>)

Author: Samar Abbas

Published: 2026-09-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reliability.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/growth.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability.md>), [temporal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal.md>), [temporal-voices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-voices.md>)

## AI overview

Temporal CEO Samar Abbas reviews a year of company growth, leadership changes, the Series E raise, platform usage, and customer examples. He argues that reliable infrastructure and Durable Execution remain important as AI increases application complexity and expectations.

## Source excerpt

Temporal CEO Samar Abbas on a year of record growth, the Series E raise, and why Durable Execution is now core infrastructure for reliable AI agents.