Episodes (Page 3)
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Aaron Levie reflects on Box's evolution through multiple technology waves: mobile, cloud, and now AI, emphasizing the importance of long-term adaptation
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Amjad Masad predicts the value of traditional software will approach zero as AI agents can create software on demand
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Bob McGrew pioneered the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model at Palantir, now central to AI startup strategy and success
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Michael Truell built Cursor to $100M ARR in one year by taking on GitHub Copilot with conviction that all software development will flow through AI models
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OpenAI released its first open-weights model since GPT-2, entering a competitive field with DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen
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Max Junestrand built Legora to $675M valuation in 13 months with no legal background by cracking vertical AI for skeptical industries
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Tom Blomfield's B2B sales playbook includes free pilots, paid pilots, opt-out contracts, and long-term deals structured to prove value
Startup School
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Dylan Field transformed Figma from a WebGL-based meme maker to a multiplayer design platform powering millions, recently achieving IPO
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Model ML built an AI-powered workspace for financial services that orchestrates AI agents as expert team members for automations and workflows
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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.