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Financializing Super Intelligence, Amazon's $50B Late Fee | #235
Livestream the Abundance Summit: https://www.abundance360.com/livestream In this WTF episode, the hosts unpack AI's supersonic tsunami - from Amazon's $35B AGI bet on OpenAI, Anthropic ditching safety pauses amid race pressures, and hyper-efficient Chinese models shrinking to iPh ... Show More
2h 17m
Mar 2
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Claude Outpaces ChatGPT, and Consulting Gets Replaced | #234
The hosts unpack AI's asteroid-like disruption—Anthropic's explosive enterprise growth outpacing OpenAI, Pentagon clashes over safeguards, and agentic revolutions from OpenClaw to meat puppets—urging agile evolution amid sovereign AI summits and trillion-dollar forecasts. Get not ... Show More
2h 10m
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
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
33m 59s
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
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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
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