WorkOS's Michael Grinich on Becoming the Enterprise Layer for AI's Biggest Companies
Michael Grinich is the co-founder and CEO of WorkOS, the enterprise authentication and identity infrastructure used by Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, xAI, and hundreds of fast-growing companies. Before WorkOS, Michael dropped out of MIT, worked at Dropbox, and founded Nihilus — where a painful first ex…
$50M ARR With 3 sales reps, no CRO, and one PM | Michael Grinich (CEO, WorkOS)
Michael Grinich is a design-obsessed engineer who once spent days in a recording studio with an electronic musician crafting the perfect email notification sound. He now runs WorkOS, the $50M (accelerating) ARR enterprise infrastructure business powering nearly every major AI company you can think …
Tech Titans: Learn How to Remix as a Leader with Michael Grinich, founder at WorkOS
Every product and piece of art you love is a ripoff…and that’s a good thing.
Today, we're talking to Michael Grinich, founder of WorkOS. We discuss why copying great work is a sign of maturity rather than weakness, how the best builders draw inspiration from wildly different industries, and why th…
Itchy Brain
Michael Grinich has an unusual vantage point, his company powers enterprise infrastructure for hundreds of companies, so he sees how the AI transition is actually playing out across the industry, not just in the headlines.What he's noticing: the whole ecosystem is accelerating, not just the AI comp…
The Co-Founder "Blood Bond" Is a Myth | Michael Grinich, WorkOS
Michael Grinich built WorkOS solo — now a $2B company and the enterprise infrastructure behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Replit — with no co-founder. So when he says "it's not the blood bond it was made out to be," it lands. This conversation is his case against the ride-or-die co-founder myth, the qu…
Inside an AI-Native Company | Michael Grinich, WorkOS
WorkOS quietly powers the auth and enterprise layer under OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and a long list of companies building the AI era. So when its founder decides his entire company should learn to code, it's worth asking why.
Michael Grinich joins Shane and Abhi to talk about what "AI-native" act…
How Founders Actually Engineer Product-Market-Fit
In this episode of The Merge, we sit down with Michael Grinich, founder and CEO of WorkOS.
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Michael shares one of the best explanations of Product-Market Fit we’ve heard: it’s not the finish line — it’s more like getting the Mario Star. Once you …
What It Actually Takes To Build a Startup Solo | 6 VC-Backed Successful Solo Founders
Everyone thinks going solo means answering to no one. Six solo founders behind WorkOS, Fondo, Plug, Lighthouse, Hamlet, and Julius AI say the opposite: you have more bosses, not fewer, and the job is convincing all of them. Julian revisits the six moments that deserved more attention the first time…
Talk to users, ship live demos, and build durable products with Michael Grinich
If you are building something people want but still cannot grow it, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Michael Grinich, founder of WorkOS, about cold-emailing product managers, closing the feedback loop with real users, and why live demos beat polished decks.
They cover the missing step after…
The CEO of an auth company on agent sign up, auth, and MCP
Michael Grinich (CEO & Co-Founder of WorkOS) has spent seven years making software enterprise ready, and the last two watching AI companies become his biggest customers. In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with him to talk about what's still broken at the front door of every AI product.
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