Mar 16

Building A Global AI Startup From India

In this episode of The Lightcone, we talk with Mukund and Madhav Jha, the founders of Emergent - an AI platform that lets anyone build and ship production-ready software. In just eight months, users have created more than 7 million apps on Emergent, with the number doubling in ju ... Show More

39m 32s

Mar 9

The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak

YC alum Max Hodak is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight.Science has developed a tiny retinal implant that stimulates cells in the eye to help blind patients see again. More than 40 patients have ... Show More

53m 20s

Mar 6

How To Avoid AI Design Slop

As no-code design tools become more common, so do the pitfalls. You know what they look like - the purple gradients, annoying hover effects, sections that fade as you scroll. So how do you avoid a site that feels vibe coded while still taking advantage of these new tools? In this ... Show More

37m 26s

Jan 2023

Investing in transformative tech: EQT Ventures’ long view

On today’s episode of McKinsey on Startups, we talk to Gautam Nadella, an operating partner at EQT Ventures in the Bay Area, where he drives M&A, fundraising, and partnership efforts within their portfolio of more than 100 companies. EQT invests in a wide range of companies in bo ... Show More

22m 49s

Nov 2025

“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO)

Grant Lee is the co-founder of Gamma, the AI-powered presentation tool that’s one of the hottest and most interesting AI startups in the world right now. They’re valued at over $2 billion, and they hit $100 million ARR in just over two years, with a lean team of just around 30 pe ... Show More

1h 53m

Jul 2025

#85 AI CEO: How To Make A $10M Business With AI Employees (Amjad Masad, CEO @ ‪Replit‬)

In this episode, host Codie Sanchez sits down with Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, to discuss the transformative potential of AI in the tech industry. Amjad shares his journey from coding at age six in Jordan to leading one of the fastest-growing AI companies. He offers insights into ... Show More

1h 37m

Nov 2024

How Startups Can Crush Enterprise AI Sales | E2050

This Week in Startups is brought to you by… LinkedIn Ads. To redeem a $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign, go to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstart ... Show More

58m 36s

Jan 2025

E127: Interview with CEO of Top AI Company Backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures

In this episode of How I Invest, I sit down with Felix Ejeckam, Co-Founder and CEO of Akash Systems. Felix discusses how Akash is leveraging synthetic diamond technology to revolutionize cooling for high-power microchips used in AI servers and satellite communications. He shares ... Show More

24m 6s

Jun 2024

Building a Disruptive Payments Company (with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski)

The tenacity required to build Klarna over the last 19 years is astonishing. Despite several headwinds and changes in the payments landscape since founding, Klarna is used today by 150 million consumers globally, processing two million payments a day. Founder and CEO Sebastian Si ... Show More

1h 19m

Jun 2025

Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks

What if virality wasn’t a tactic — but the entire product?In this episode, a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Bryan Kim sit down with Roy Lee, cofounder and CEO of Cluely, one of the most talked-about consumer AI startups of 2025. Cluely didn’t raise a mega round ... Show More

38m 24s

Jul 2025

Tech Founder: From 0 to 15 Million Users. Here's What We Learned

Maximiliano Neustadt, CTO and co-founder of Polarsteps, shares the incredible journey of building a travel app from 5 people to over 15 million users. From surviving as a travel company during the worst possible timing to scaling without hustle culture, Maxi reveals the key decis ... Show More

45m 43s

Jul 2025

Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo

Maor Shlomo is the founder of Base44, an AI-powered app builder that he bootstrapped to an over $80 million acquisition by Wix in just six months. As a solo founder (with severe ADHD), he hit $1 million ARR just three weeks after launch and grew the product to more than 400,000 u ... Show More

1h 31m

Mar 2025

Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz)

Eric Simons is the founder and CEO of StackBlitz, the company behind Bolt—the #1 web-based AI coding agent and one of the fastest-growing products in history. After nearly shutting down, StackBlitz launched Bolt on Twitter and exploded from zero to $40 million ... Show More

1h 28m

How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal...