Episodes (Page 3)
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Jared Kaplan discovered that intelligence scales in a predictable, almost physical way
Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan
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Karri Saarinen, co-founder of Linear and a top designer-founder, shares brand design principles through reviewing YC company websites
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Amjad Masad built Replit from teaching coding to enabling anyone to build software, now surpassing $100M in ARR with AI-assisted creation
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Chelsea Finn uses scalable foundation models and massive datasets to teach robots physical common sense without hand-crafted code
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John Jumper led DeepMind's AlphaFold team to solve protein folding, earning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this breakthrough
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Aravind Srinivas built Perplexity from a natural-language-to-SQL search tool into an AI-powered browser used by millions worldwide
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Andrew Ng emphasizes that execution speed matters more than ever, with agentic workflows enabling startups to build faster and more effectively
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François Chollet argues that scaling today's AI models alone isn't enough to reach AGI; abstraction and compositionality are critical
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Fei-Fei Li created ImageNet, the foundational dataset that ignited the deep learning revolution and enabled modern computer vision
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Kirsten Green has backed iconic consumer brands like Warby Parker and Dollar Shave Club, recognizing that great products
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Satya Nadella discusses Microsoft's strategic AI investments.
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Elon Musk discusses early company experiences including Zip2, SpaceX's near-fatal Falcon 1 launches, and Tesla's 2008 survival using first-principles thinking
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Sam Altman discusses the future trajectory of OpenAI.
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Andrej Karpathy introduces 'Software 3.0'
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Michael Truell pivoted from an AI-powered CAD project to founding Cursor, which aims to reinvent software development by automating code generation
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Gustaf Alstromer traces fusion energy's century-long history, explaining the physics and engineering challenges that have delayed breakthrough commercialization
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Current AI apps fail because they're legacy software with chatbots bolted on; true AI-native software requires rethinking the entire architecture and user experience
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AI coding agents are reshaping software development today, enabling small, high-agency teams to accomplish what previously required large engineering armies
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Tom Blomfield spent a month building side projects with Claude Code, Windsurf, and Aqua, discovering that modern LLMs can nearly one-shot products through 'vibe coding'
Startup School
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Zepto co-founder Aadit Palicha grew the fastest-growing Indian e-commerce company from a WhatsApp group, promising 10-minute grocery delivery to customers