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Zynga's Founder on Failure, Founder Mode, and What AI Still Can't Do | Mark Pincus (Zynga)

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Why the Hearing Aid Industry Stopped Innovating, and How Legato Changed That |Mehul Trivedi, Legato

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Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)

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Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow)

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Why This Moment in AI is Similar to the Invention of the Camera | Jade Q. Wang, Artist & Investor

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What It Actually Takes to Get a Venture Capitalist to Say Yes | Max Kilberg (Village Global) & Michael Hochberg (Periplous)

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From Milking Cows in Kyrgyzstan to Building a $98%-Approval Law Firm | Aizada Marat (Alma)

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Building the Company Behind 1 Million Therapy Visits a Month | Jake Cooper (Grow Therapy)

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The AI Engineer Every Industrial Company Will Need | Paul Eremenko (P-1 AI) & Jeff Immelt (NEA)

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How One Hacked Library Can Take Down Thousands of Companies | Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)

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Recall Sessions: Why Two Finance Leaders Are Ditching Excel for Claude Code | Jeff Cobourn (Gusto) & Rohit Divate (Tide)

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Why Nobody Needs Metrics or Traces Anymore | Sherwood Callaway (Sazabi)

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Why AI Agents Can't Be Trusted Yet (And How to Fix It) | Moe Katib (One)

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Recall Sessions: He Built the Software That Runs 1 in 6 Laundromats in America | Alex Jekowsky

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LIVE: The Bull Case for SaaS in the Age of AI | Aaron Levie and Reid Hoffman

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Recall Sessions: The PR Playbook Most Founders Get Wrong — Paul Loeffler & Kelly Boynton

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Why Your Next Executive Assistant Will Be an AI — Deon Nicholas (Espa.ai)

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Recall Sessions: Most SaaS Companies Won't Survive This - Jake Saper (Emergence)

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Recall Sessions: Building a $1.1B Category That Didn't Exist | Nick Mehta (Gainsight)

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Worldbuilders: Building Digital Minds and Why Humans Still Matter | Dara Ladjevardian (Delphi)

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Recall Sessions: AI-Native CRMs and What It Takes to Replace Salesforce | Doug Camplejohn & Patrick Thompson

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Worldbuilders: Why Most AI Startups Won't Survive | The Model Economy by Sumeet Singh

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Worldbuilders: The Largest Infrastructure Project in History with Evan Conrad (SF Compute)

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Recall Sessions: How Moveworks Went From First Customer to $2.85B with Bhavin Shah

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Parth Patil on Coding Agents, Building Reid AI, and What It Takes to Operate at the Frontier

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Recall Sessions: Tomer London on Building Gusto from ZenPayroll to 400,000 Customers

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[Highlight] What Happens to Society When We Live to 100? with Celine Halioua

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Recall Sessions: Itai Damti on Embedded Finance and the Art of Getting Your First Customer

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[Highlight] Why Dog Longevity Drugs Are the Fastest Path to Human Longevity with Celine Halioua

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[Highlight] Shishir Mehrotra on Big Tech vs. Startup Careers and Building a World-Class Hiring Process

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Celine Halioua On The Science and Business of Making Dogs Live Longer

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[Highlight] Why Henry Shi Chose Anthropic Over Starting Another Company

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[Highlight] The Future of Coding and Work in the Age of AI with Henry Shi

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[Highlight] Grammarly's Evolution into an AI Agent Platform with Shishir Mehrotra

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[Highlight] Shishir Mehrotra (Superhuman CEO) on Careers at Big Tech vs. Startups

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From $200 Million Revenue Founder to Frontier Lab with Henry Shi

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[Highlight] Eric Yuan & Reid Hoffman on Building Enduring Companies

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How To Build Your First Go-to-Market Team with Swing Search

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[Highlight] Eric Yuan & Reid Hoffman on Startups vs. Big Tech in the AI Era

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The Future of Work with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Reid Hoffman

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[Highlight] Airtable's Howie Liu on What Founders Get Wrong About Building Product

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Power, Narrative, and Influence: Van Jones and Promise CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

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Scaling in the AI Era with PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada

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Vibe Coding and The Rise of AI Agents with Amjad Masad and Yohei Nakajima

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Executing as a Best-In-Class Firm: Operational Excellence From The Inside of Over 50 VC Firms with Kristen Ostro of Strut Consulting

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The Secret to Startup M&A: How To Set Your Companies Up for Big Outcomes with Ezra Roizen of Advsr

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Abhay Parasnis on Creating Moats, AI Strategy, and Selling to Enterprise

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Fundraising in AI with Aaron Harris

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Hiring Technical Talent with Kathy Copic and Lindsay Pettingill

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Eynat Guez of Papaya Global on Mastering Enterprise Sales and Building Long-Term Partnerships

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Auren Hoffman and Ben Casnocha on Career Strategy, Undiscovered Talent, Networks, and more

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Howie Liu on Airtable's Early Days, Scaling, and AI

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Guillermo Rauch on AI, Scaling Vercel, and The Future of Web Apps

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Encore: Secrets of Public Speaking and Oral Communication from Renowned Speaking Coach

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Encore: Brad Feld on What Nietzsche Can Teach Entrepreneurs

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How to Nail Product-Market Fit and Scale a B2B Company with Thejo Kote of Airbase

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Encore: Cloudflare Co-Founder Michelle Zatlyn’s Advice on Hiring, Fundraising, Scaling, and more

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Lessons from the Early Days at Uber and Advice for Founders with Kevin Novak

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Encore Episode: John Donahoe’s Lessons on Leadership and Being a Better CEO

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Identifying 275M Unreported Genetic Variations To Improve Healthcare with NIH All of Us Program CTO Chris Lunt

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Building Hardware Companies and Choosing Co-Founders with Michael Hochberg

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Secondaries with Matt Pellini of Hamilton Lane

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Lessons Learned From Running CalSTRS with Chris Ailman

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Encore: Mark Pincus on Product Management, Raising Capital, and Building Zynga

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Encore: Bill Gates on Advice For Founders, Mistakes, and Philanthropy

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Encore: Jerry Yang on Yahoo!, Early-Stage Investing, and China

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How Superplastic Built a Social Media-Native Character Universe

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Reference Checking and Personality Assessments with Investor Graham Duncan

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Insights on Capital Power Brokers from Hedge Funds to Venture Capital with Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law

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LatAm Digital Transformation Report from Atlantico

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Opportunities in Public Health Investing with Gurdane Bhutani and Zeshan Muhammedi

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The Future of Retail with Lee Hnetinka

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CIO Series: Wealth Management Platforms, Private Investment Strategies, and the Current (non-Twitter) Macro Outlook with Cameron Dawson

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Opportunities at the intersection of software and hardware in national development projects with Prescott Watson

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Mark Cuban on Disrupting Healthcare, Trends in AI, and Randomness

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Disrupting VC Benchmarking and Closing The LP-GP Information Gap with Eric Woo and Spencer Tyson

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Investing Across Cycles, Tech Transformation, and Partnering Effectively with Entrepreneurs with Jon Korngold

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Tokenizing Film Finance with Marc Iserlis

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The Startup of You: Navigating Status Dynamics, Name Dropping, and Lessons on Hustle

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The Startup of You: How To Reference Check, Taking Smart Risks, and Lessons from Airbnb

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The Intersection of Technology and Media with Louise Story 

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Creating a Talent Marketplace with David Boehmer

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Talent Identification, Hierarchies, and Clustering with Rohit Krishnan

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Thematic investing in fertility and semiconductor sectors at Recharge, technonationalism, and lessons from David Swensen with Lorin Gu

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Alex Chalunkal on Structured Equity and The Current Investing Environment

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Ian Bremmer on The Intersection of Geopolitics and Technology

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The Future of the Space Economy with Mo Islam

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Dual Use Tech with Ari Schuler and Andrea Garrity

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Unbundling K-12 Education with Joe Connor of Odyssey

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Spacecraft Manufacturing with Apex’s Ian Cinnamon and Max Benassi

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A Deep Dive on SBIRs with Ben Van Roo

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Deep Nishar’s Lessons From Building Products at Google and LinkedIn

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Reimagining The Kill Chain with Christian Brose

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Restoring Dynamism in a Decadent Society with Ross Douthat

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Data-Driven Insights on Venture Capital with Steve Kim

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Innovating in National Security with Raj Shah

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The State of Digital Transformation in Latin America in 2022

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Mike Brown on How To Ensure The US Leads Defense Innovation

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Investing in Defense with Alex Moore

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Web 3 Series: Bringing Smart Contracts to Bitcoin with Muneeb Ali