As a freshman at MIT, Alexandr was struck by his classmates' interest in AI. But he realized that despite all that AI technology could solve, there was no solution for managing AI-related data. So, at 19, he dropped out of college and started Scale AI. Scale now helps customers like Pinterest and Toyota accelerate the progress of AI and has grown to a valuat ... Show More
Oct 22
Penny Pritzker on Microsoft, Harvard, and Building Inspired
From the Microsoft boardroom to Harvard to Ukraine’s economic recovery, Penny Pritzker has held one of the rarest vantage points in business and public life. She sits on Microsoft’s board at a defining moment for AI, helps lead Harvard, served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and w ... Show More
59m 15s
Oct 14
How AI Is Rewiring Marketing with Profound’s James Cadwallader
James Cadwallader thinks the most important reader on the internet isn’t human anymore. When he asked ChatGPT for a better showerhead, it visited 65 websites. He expects that number to hit 6,500 within five years, and most brands have no idea what those agents are saying about th ... Show More
42m 58s
Jun 2026
Boris Sofman Went from Leading Autonomous Trucking at Waymo to Building Bedrock Robotics
Boris Sofman has spent his entire career at the forefront of physical AI. He co-founded Anki, shipping more than 3.7 million consumer robots globally, before leading autonomous trucking at Waymo, where he helped pioneer the world's most advanced driverless vehicle program. Now he ... Show More
44m 48s
Oct 2024
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
In this conversation with a16z general partner David George, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI—models, compute, and data—and how creating abundant data is core to the evolution of gen AI. With Scale’s work across enterprise, automotive, and ... Show More
35m 8s
Jun 2025
Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work with Agents & Competing With China
Alexandr Wang started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster.It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn messy, real-world data into something AI could learn from. Today, that early idea ... Show More
1h 1m
Sep 2024
Human Data is Key to AI: Alex Wang from Scale AI
<p>What if the key to unlocking AI's full potential lies not just in algorithms or compute, but in data? </p><p>In this episode, a16z General Partner David George sits down with Alex Wang, founder and CEO of Scale AI, to discuss the crucial role of "frontier data" in advancing ar ... Show More
30m 56s
Jul 2025
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era
AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path.New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, small, focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months.In a s ... Show More
38m 55s
Oct 2018
Austen Allred: How to Fix Our Broken Education System
Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School, a full computer science education that’s free until you get a high paying job.
In this conversation, Allred and Anthony Pompliano Discuss Y Combinator, the challenges of building a startup, what it takes to train a compute ... Show More
55m 29s
Jan 2023
The Future of Artificial Intelligence | Ep 487
Change is coming and we should embrace it. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) is diving deep into his thoughts about A.I (artificial intelligence) and talks about how this advancement can improve our lives in business, the economy, our day-to-day activities, and why we shouldn’t fear thi ... Show More
40m 33s
Aug 2025
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just 13 months, Max and his team scaled from 10 to 100 people, raised $80M, and crack ... Show More
45m 25s
Nov 2019
Entrepreneurship as a Path Towards Self Actualization with Alex MacCaw, CEO of Clearbit
Today, Chad is joined by Alex MacCaw, founder and CEO of Clearbit. Alex’s road to entrepreneurship was anything but conventional. Having taught himself programming at a young age, he dropped out of high school at the age of 17 to pursue a full-time career as a software engineer. ... Show More
50m 16s