- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2026
- How they joined
- With Poke
- Before Poke
- TeslaAnalytics & Automation
- Status
- Current
- Cognition announced on 2026-07-23: "Cognition is acquiring The Interaction Company of California, the makers of Poke." Marvin reshared it on LinkedIn.Jul 23, 2026
- Apple approved Poke as the first AI agent on Apple's Messages for Business platform (June 2026), shared on his LinkedIn feed; this distribution win came about seven weeks before the Cognition acquisition was announced.Jun 4, 2026
- Claudia Dalmau (Interaction) wrote that she and Marvin von Hagen flew to Rome to present Interaction's case to Italy's antitrust authority AGCM against Meta's WhatsApp AI-assistant ban, with only Meta, Interaction and OpenAI in the room; AGCM ordered interim measures in Dec 2025.Dec 24, 2025
- Marvin von Hagen previously worked at Tesla, where he dug a tunnel in Las Vegas. Source quote: "Previously dug a tunnel in Las Vegas and lived in Amsterdam ( Tesla)"Nov 2026
- Marvin von Hagen is suing Meta, with updates covered in mainstream media. Source quote: "updates on suing Meta in mainstream media"Nov 2026
- Marvin von Hagen, in a Product role at Poke, took on Meta over WhatsApp access and won. Source quote: "Product@PokeTook on Meta over WhatsApp access and won"Nov 2026
- Marvin von Hagen interned at Tesla in Analytics & Automation and worked on Hyperloop. Source quote: "Analytics & Automation@TeslaInterned at Tesla and worked on Hyperloop"Nov 2026
- Marvin von Hagen was a Co-Founder of TUM Boring – Innovation in Tunneling e.V., which beat 390 teams with a 22-ton tunnel borer. Source quote: "Co-Founder@TUM Boring – Innovation in Tunneling e.V.Beat 390 teams with a 22-ton tunnel borer"Nov 2026
- Posted on X (verbatim): "Today marks exactly 1 year since we introduced Poke to the world.
Since then, people have exchanged over 200M messages with Poke, with millions more every week.
Can’t wait to share where our joint journey with @Cognition is headed! 🦦🌴
https://t.co/bN4zAHUhN1"Sep 9, 2026Today marks exactly 1 year since we introduced Poke to the world.
Since then, people have exchanged over 200M messages with Poke, with millions more every week.
Can’t wait to share where our joint journey with @Cognition is headed! 🦦🌴
https://t.co/bN4zAHUhN1
- Marvin von Hagen confirmed that Cognition's acquisition price for Poke sits in the low nine figures. Source quote: "Co-founder Marvin von Hagen confirmed the price sits in the low nine figures."Aug 6, 2026
- Marvin von Hagen and his team joined Cognition as part of the Poke acquisition and kept running the product. Source quote: "Von Hagen and his team join Cognition and keep running the product."Aug 6, 2026
- Cognition co-founders Scott Wu and Walden Yan were angel investors in Marvin von Hagen's company before buying it. Source quote: "Wu and co-founder Walden Yan were angel investors in the company before they bought it."Aug 6, 2026
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Building Poke 🌴
- Co-founded TUM Boring, led team of 65 ppl - Built a 22-tons heavy, 40-feet long tunnel boring machine - Won Not-a-Boring Competition hosted by SpaceX & The Boring Company against 390 other teams
Refusals and other LLM stuff. Grad courses at Harvard
CDTM was initiated by MIT and TUM in 1998 and has been a joint institute of the University of Munich (LMU) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the two leading universities in Germany, since 2002. Each semester, 25 students with diverse study backgrounds are selected from 400+ applicants to pursue an add-on Honors Degree which is awarded jointly by LMU, TUM, and the Elite Network of Bavaria. Alumni of the Elite Graduate Study Program in Technology Management hold leadership positions in industry and academia and have founded more than a quarter of Germany's unicorn startups.
Visiting student at the IEP Paris (Grande École)
the lion doesn't concern himself with cybersecurity and x-risk the lion is at $5T and brings back the glowing apple logo 🍎
remember when the best cars were built by europeans? 🦅 https://t.co/0htx1QgE0N
the new alpha isn't post-training on your system prompt, it's waiting for the labs to include your product in their vanilla weights: USER: without searching the web, tell me everything u know about Poke, in Poke's voice CLAUDE-OPUS-5-5: it's almost 4am and you want my whole lif
SWE-2 aka Le Chaton Fat 🦦
by default, llms think every account login email is super important because "security" llms still lack a lot of human intuition! even 23 months after we faced the exact same issues https://t.co/mSzQzzPOjj
Today marks exactly 1 year since we introduced Poke to the world. Since then, people have exchanged over 200M messages with Poke, with millions more every week. Can’t wait to share where our joint journey with @Cognition is headed! 🦦🌴 https://t.co/bN4zAHUhN1
@cognition @corridor 🔐
@adarshg @samyok @interaction @somevyn
@zupbryy @interaction we just moved into a bigger kitchen
@twolays @interaction ??
@omooretweets @felixms @interaction 🫶🏼
@yongninggg @interaction @hone 🫡
