- (01:27) - Meta AI App Community Reactions
- (19:45) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
- (35:22) - Stargate Project Reactions
- (40:33) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reactions
- (43:54) - Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, is now the Chief Product Officer at Anthropic, an AI company based in San Francisco. In the conversation, he discusses the evolution of AI models, emphasizing the importance of balancing eagerness and laziness in AI responses to enhance user experience. He also highlights the significance of AI's ability to maintain coherence over extended tasks, noting that longer task consistency builds user trust and enables more complex applications.
- (01:16:08) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
- (01:29:04) - Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, discusses the integration of AI into design workflows, emphasizing its potential to enhance designers' capabilities by automating routine tasks and enabling more creative exploration. He highlights the importance of balancing AI assistance with human creativity, ensuring that AI serves as a tool to augment rather than replace the designer's role. Field also reflects on the evolving landscape of design, noting that as AI technologies advance, designers will need to adapt by embracing new tools and methodologies to stay at the forefront of the industry.
- (01:57:48) - Jeff Weinstein, a product leader at Stripe, discusses the integration of agentic commerce into ChatGPT, enabling users to discover and purchase products directly within the chat interface. He highlights the collaboration between Stripe and OpenAI to develop the Agentic Commerce Protocol, an open standard that allows businesses to make their checkouts compatible with AI agents, facilitating seamless transactions initiated by AI. Weinstein also mentions the introduction of a shared payment token API, which enables secure processing of agentic payments across different payment processors.
- (02:07:45) - Adam Draper, a fourth-generation venture capitalist and co-founder of Boost VC, discusses the firm's recent $87 million fundraising success , highlighting their commitment to investing in pioneering deep tech startups. He shares his personal experience of flying a jetpack, emphasizing Boost VC's dedication to turning science fiction concepts into reality. Draper also outlines the commercialization strategies for jetpack technology, including defense applications like boarding ships and search-and-rescue missions, and expresses enthusiasm for emerging sectors such as biotechnology and health tech.
- (02:15:49) - James Hawkins, co-founder and co-CEO of PostHog, discusses the company's recent $1.4 million Series E funding round and their developer-focused analytics tools designed to help businesses build better products. He emphasizes PostHog's strategy of offering a wide range of integrated tools to provide a comprehensive view of customer data, differentiating them from competitors. Hawkins also highlights the company's approach to product development, which involves small, autonomous teams working on multiple products simultaneously, fostering rapid iteration and responsiveness to customer needs.
- (02:24:45) - Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs, discusses how his company provides infrastructure tailored for AI applications, addressing the limitations of traditional tools like Kubernetes and Docker. Modal Labs focuses on serving startups and later-stage companies with a usage-based pricing model, charging per GPU hour. Bernhardsson highlights the inefficiencies in GPU utilization, noting that many companies overcommit resources, and emphasizes Modal's approach of scaling up and down to ensure clients pay only for actual usage. He also shares his perspective on the GPU market, predicting Nvidia's dominance in the near term but expressing optimism about future competition from alternatives like Google's TPUs and AMD. Additionally, he critiques the complexity of CUDA programming and anticipates the development of more user-friendly solutions in the coming years.
- (02:32:07) - Adam Foroughi, CEO and co-founder of AppLovin, discusses the company's origins in 2012, focusing on providing advertisers with revenue-based pricing models for mobile game advertising. He highlights the challenges faced in securing venture capital funding, noting skepticism about competition from tech giants like Google and Facebook. Foroughi also emphasizes the importance of AI in enhancing advertising effectiveness and the company's commitment to maintaining a lean, high-performing team culture.
- (03:00:11) - David Senra is the creator of the Founders Podcast, where he delves into the lives and strategies of history's most successful entrepreneurs. In this conversation, he discusses his collaboration with Rob Moore and Andrew Huberman on a new show, emphasizing their shared commitment to quality and innovation. Senra also reflects on his approach to podcasting, highlighting his dedication to delivering concise, impactful content that respects the audience's time and attention.
TBPN.com is made possible by:
Ramp - https://ramp.com
Figma - https://figma.com
Vanta - https://vanta.com
Linear - https://linear.app
Eight Sleep - https://eightsleep.com/tbpn
Wander - https://wander.com/tbpn
Public - https://public.com
AdQuick - https://adquick.com
Bezel - https://getbezel.com
Numeral - https://www.numeralhq.com
Polymarket - https://polymarket.com
Attio - https://attio.com/tbpn
Fin - https://fin.ai/tbpn
Graphite - https://graphite.dev
Restream - https://restream.io
Profound - https://tryprofound.com
Julius AI - https://julius.ai
turbopuffer - https://turbopuffer.com
fal - https://fal.ai
Privy - https://www.privy.io
Cognition - https://cognition.ai
Follow TBPN:
https://TBPN.com
https://x.com/tbpn
https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235
https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive