Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion
Starting a company is hard. Reinventing your company for AI as a public company with quarterly earnings results is even harder. Aaron Levie has pulled off the transition with Box and offers hard-won a...
15 Sep 1h 5min
Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph
Most public safety technology companies grow by collecting more data. Peregrine inverted the model: no sensors, no new data, a business built on connecting the data and information cities already own....
1 Sep 52min
Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents
Parag Agrawal is making a bet that goes against two decades of web search: agents will query the web a thousand times more than humans ever have, and the infrastructure built around human clicks is wr...
25 Aug 55min
Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: Why AI Models Stop Learning, and How to Start It Again
Rich Sutton, who helped pioneer reinforcement learning and wrote the seminal AI essay The Bitter Lesson, has now cofounded Oak Lab with his former student Khurram Javed. Their goal: to build agents th...
18 Aug 53min
Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem
Most people treat biology as a bespoke, messy science. Josh Meier and Matt McPartlon, co-founders of Chai Discovery, treat it as an engineering problem. They make the case that drug design obeys the b...
4 Aug 47min
Building the Automated AGI Lab: Core Automation's Jerry Tworek and Rohan Anil
Jerry Tworek led reasoning at OpenAI, convinced that scaling reinforcement learning was the path to AGI. Rohan Anil co-led Gemini pre-training and built the Shampoo optimizer. Now they've teamed up at...
29 Juli 49min
Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden
Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang lead the team building Anthropic's developer platform - the layer that both outside builders and Anthropic's own products run on top of. Angela frames the platform as a ...
14 Juli 48min
