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13:17Build Small, Go Deep, Charge a Lot: a16z's Anish Acharya on "Narrow Startups" and the $1,000-a-Month Plan
Anish Acharya is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz who invests from the firm's AI apps fund, which covers both consumer and enterprise companies. He describes himself as an engineer and product
15:08Why Speak's Founders Picked South Korea as Their First Market, and What They Learned About Building an AI Tutor
Speak is an AI-powered language-learning app founded by Connor Zwick (CEO) and Andrew Hsu (CTO). Its founders describe it as "the best way to learn a language to fluency," using AI to create a hyper-p
24:26Steve Jobs in Exile: How the NeXT Years Turned a Stubborn Founder into a Different Leader
Journalist and biographer Geoffrey Cain argues that the familiar Steve Jobs, the man in the black turtleneck unveiling the iPhone on stage, is only half the story. In this interview about Cain's book
16:43Chris Piech on Why You Should Still Learn to Program in the Age of AI
Chris Piech is a Stanford professor who teaches large introductory computer science courses and an intro to math for AI class. For six years, Piech has also run Code in Place, a free online course for
19:33Radical AI's Joseph Krause on Using AI for Scientific Discovery Instead of Small Problems
Joseph Krause, co-founder and CEO of Radical AI, argues that the AI industry is mostly aiming too low. In his view, too many companies use a transformative technology to build software tools and incre
16:34Sridhar Ramaswamy on Research, Google Ads, Neeva's Failure, and Leading Snowflake
Sridhar Ramaswamy is the CEO of Snowflake, which he describes as "the AI data cloud." In this interview, Ramaswamy traces a path from a PhD in the US to software engineering, to running ads and commer
13:45Why Corgi's Founders Shut Down a Working Startup to Become an Insurance Carrier
Corgi describes itself as an AI insurance company for technology startups. In this interview, CEO Nico Laqua and co-founder and COO Emily Yuan explain why they gave up a promising insurance brokerage
12:15Learning AI by Hand: Tom Yeh on Slowness, Foundations, and What AI Cannot Change
Tom Yeh is a professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder and the founder of AI by Hand, which he describes as a global education initiative to make what happens inside AI's "bl
15:51Gumloop's Max Brodeur-Urbas on Why AI Shortcuts Fail and What Actually Builds a Company
Max Brodeur-Urbas is the founder and CEO of Gumloop, an AI automation platform. In this interview he argues against a popular fantasy of the current AI boom: the founder who runs a company with dozens
11:20A Former High-Frequency Quant on Why Markets Shortchange Investors, and Why He Left to Build QFEX
Annanay Kapila spent several years as a quant at high-frequency trading firms, where the strategies he was responsible for traded between 10 and 100 billion dollars a day. He points out that 10 billio
20:00Ken Ono on Why Competing With AI on Knowledge Is the Wrong Race
Ken Ono is a mathematician, a professor at the University of Virginia currently on leave, and the founding mathematician at Axiom Math, a company working in AI for math. His talk starts from his own m
15:28Canaries in the Coal Mine: Stanford Economist Bharat Chandar on Young Workers and Surviving the AI Era
Bharat Chandar is an economist at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab who studies how AI affects work. He considers AI's effect on the labor market one of the most important questions in labor economics
17:28Jessica Wu of Sola on Odds-Based Decisions, Selling Before Building, and Automating Enterprise Work
Jessica Wu is co-founder and CEO of Sola, an intelligent process automation platform that uses AI to help businesses automate critical operational workflows. In this interview, Wu traces a path from c
19:20Four Failed Startups and a Cancer Diagnosis: David Park on Building Jenni AI
David Park, 27, is the CEO of Jenni AI, an academic AI assistant that helps with research, writing, and "everything in between." In this interview, Park recounts eight years of startup failure before
17:53Lucy Guo on Optimizing for Learning, Shipping at 90%, and Founding Again Without Fear of Failure
Lucy Guo co-founded Scale AI and later founded Passes. In this interview Guo covers a daily routine, a childhood spent looking for ways to make money online, the decision to drop out of college, lesso
16:48Dan Wang on the US–China Race: Two Superpowers "Very Intent on Losing"
Dan Wang is the author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He spent six years in China as a technology analyst at the economic re