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Davos 2026: The US-China AI Race, GPU Diplomacy, and Robots Walking the Streets | #225
In this episode, the mates discuss Davos 2026. Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist ... Show More
1h 41m
Jan 20
The Singularity Countdown: AGI by 2029, Humans Merge with AI, and Intelligence Multiplies 1000x | Ray Kurzweil | 223
Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist best known for his pioneering work in optical character recognition and his predictions regarding the technological singularity. Salim Ism ... Show More
1h 40m
Jun 2025
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng
Peter Deng has led product teams at OpenAI, Instagram, Uber, Facebook, Airtable, and Oculus and helped build products used by billions—including Facebook’s News Feed, the standalone Messenger app, Instagram filters, Uber Reserve, ChatGPT, and more. Currently he’s investing in ear ... Show More
1h 55m
Jan 2025
Mike Maples on 100-Baggers, David Swensen & the AI Revolution | #568
Today’s guest is Mike Maples Jr. a partner at Floodgate, a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm that’s invested in companies like Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta. He’s also the author of Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future. In today’s episode, Mike shares h ... Show More
1h 10m
Mar 2025
Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder)
<p><strong>Ivan Zhao</strong> is the co-founder and CEO of Notion. Ivan shares the untold story of Notion, from nearly running out of database space during Covid to finding product-market fit after several “lost years,” and the hard-won lessons along the way.</p><p>—</p><p><stron ... Show More
1h 12m
Oct 5
How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)
Albert Cheng has led growth at three of the world’s most successful consumer subscription companies: Duolingo, Grammarly, and Chess.com. A former Google product manager (and serious pianist!), Albert developed a unique approach to finding and scaling growth opportunities through ... Show More
1h 25m
Sep 2025
#828: David Senra — How Extreme Winners Think and Win: Lessons from 400+ of History’s Greatest Founders and Investors (Including Buffett, Munger, Rockefeller, Jobs, Ovitz, Zell, and Names You Don’t Know But Should)
2h 55m
Feb 2025
The Infrastructure Behind the AI Revolution
If you’ve got a network that can’t go down, you call Arista Networks, a company building the infrastructure for the AI revolution.
(00:21) David Meier and Ricky Mulvey discuss:
- Why Microsoft and Meta rely on Arista Networks.
- How Arista CEO, Jayshree Ullal, is managing Wall S ... Show More
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Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO
Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures
Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified, focused on AI and complex systems.
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VC React Podcast:Every week, we bring you insights and reactions from top VCs, LPs, & Angel Investors, reacting to the latest news on MENA startups, VCs, and investment rounds. ---Hosts: Ahmad Takatkah, VCpreneur. Sign up to VCpreneur Newsletter on ... Show More
<p><strong>David Senra </strong>is the host of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@founderspodcast1/videos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Founders</em></strong></a> podcast. For the past nine years, David has intensely studied the life and work of hundre ... Show More
