Marvin von Hagen

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Marvin von Hagen co-founded The Interaction Company of California, maker of Poke, whose team joined Cognition in 2026. He previously co-founded and led TUM Boring, winner of the 2021 Not-a-Boring Competition, and researched multi-agent AI systems at MIT.

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Career

Marvin von Hagen studied at Technical University of Munich (B.S.), CDTM (Elite Honors Degree), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1-yr Research stay), and Sciences Po Paris (Visiting Student).

Co-Founder at The Interaction Company of California until Present

Analytics and Automation Intern at Tesla from 2021-12 to 2022-05

TBCo-Founder and Project Lead at TUM Boring from 2020-07 to 2021-12

Investing Announcements

Anthropic

SpaceX

Exa

Flapping Airplanes

OpenAI

Cognition

Applied Compute

Raindrop

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Cosigns Received

Scott WuCo-founder and CEO of Cognition

First Cosign

We’ve known and admired Marvin and his team for years. … They are exceptional people who move extremely fast

Source

Media appearance

Why Cognition Bought Poke: AI Personality as a Competitive Advantage

In Sarah Perez’s interview, Marvin explains Poke’s persistent, conversational product design, its operating costs and how it could coordinate Cognition’s coding agents.

techcrunch.com · Open ↗

arxiv.org

Cannot or Should Not? Classifying LLM Refusals

Coauthored research separating capability limits from safety refusals, with labeled data and classifiers for analyzing model responses.

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arxiv.org

Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits

Coauthored research on the access auditors need to examine AI systems.