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Drew Bent, Education Lead at Anthropic, explains how the top 1% of learners use AI to think better.00:00 Intro01:46 Don’t Underestimate AI’s Capabilities04:58 How to Be a Top 1% Learner with AI07:09 Imagine 10x beyond the chatbot09:51 The 2030 Classroom Is Nothing Like You’d Expect10:27 how do we scale up truly personalized learning?11:15 Technology will be invisible in the future classroom🔗 Read...

Ken Ono, Founding Mathematician at Axiom Math and Commonwealth Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, explains why competing with AI on knowledge is a race humans are bound to lose, and what he believes truly defines intelligence in the age of AI.Through the legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the two-time college dropout whose notebooks reshaped modern mathematics, Ono makes the case...

AI just cracked a mathematical conjecture that had stayed open for decades. It found the counterexample — and still couldn't tell us why it was true. Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics at Oxford and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. He spends his life on the line between what machines can do and what only people can. In this conversation he gives you a work...

Catie Cuan, Stanford Roboticist, Robot Choreographer, and founder of ART Lab (AI Robot Technology), breaks down why the humanoid race led by 1X and Unitree may be a myopic vision of our robotic future, and how designing for delight and human interaction, not utility alone, will shape the billions of robots coming into our lives.*In this episode, we cover:*00:00 Intro 02:05 Billions of Robots Are C...

Most AI agents don't actually work. Abhishek Das, co-founder & co-CEO of Yutori, argues that the agent industry has quietly normalized unreliability. Even at 90% accuracy per step, errors compound fast across a 10, 20, or 50-step workflow, and the whole thing breaks. Backed by Fei-Fei Li and Jeff Dean, Abhishek is pushing back on that normalization. In this conversation, he lays out what it takes...

Amit Bendov, co-founder and CEO of Gong, argues that code is only one piece of the software moat. The real advantage comes from customer context, proprietary data, product experience, and the operational complexity of running software at scale. In this conversation, Amit shares how Gong started from CRM’s biggest blind spot, why the best AI products create raving fans, and why the fear that AI wil...

Andrew Kang, CEO of RoboStrategy and an early investor in Figure AI, breaks down why he's betting humanoid robots become a tens-of-trillions-dollar market, and why robot intelligence gets good enough within 2 to 3 years while the robots themselves stay scarce. He also gets into what happens to the industry once the model layer commoditizes, and why so many people rushing into robotics right now ar...

"Pursue the most ambitious version of whatever the idea is."That's the principle Nico and Emily, co-founders of Corgi, built their company around — and Silicon Valley just bet $108M Series A on it. Two outsiders to insurance who didn't try to modernize legacy carriers. They rebuilt a trillion-dollar industry from the ground up — questioning every default that insiders had stopped questioning decad...

A cyberattack used to take an elite team and a decade of hard-won instinct. Now it takes two people and a GPU.Damien Lewke spent his career on defense - at the DoD, at CrowdStrike through its IPO, and at Arctic Wolf - then raised a $25M Series A to build Nebulock and hunt the threats hiding between your security tools. In this conversation, Damien breaks down how AI has collapsed the cost of attac...

Brought to you by:Begin your 2-week free trial with Attio, the AI-native CRM platform to power your growth 👉 https://attio.com/eoAnish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, investing in consumer and enterprise AI. His take on the classic Silicon Valley advice: go deep or go home. Not a hundred million free users, but 41,000 people paying $200 a month. In this conversation, Anish ex...

John Kim's AI startup has paid out over $50 million to human recruiters. While every other hiring platform races to replace them, Paraform bet the opposite direction, and 10x'd revenue in 2025 working with customers like Palantir, Rippling, and Decagon. In this interview, John opens up about:- Why AI is making hiring noisier, not faster: it now takes 5,000 cold emails to make a single engineering...

Sridhar Ramaswamy has seen both sides of building. At Google, he helped scale one of the most important businesses in the history of the internet. Then he left to build Neeva, a search engine that tried to take on Google itself. Neeva did not become the company he hoped it would be. But for Sridhar, that failure was not the end of the story. The team, lessons, and conviction from Neeva eventually...

Annanay Kapila ran trading strategies that moved $10 billion a day, roughly the GDP of France. He walked away from it all to build QFEX, the 24/7 global stock exchange he always wished existed. In this interview, Annanay opens up about:1. Why high-frequency trading "adds no value to the world," and how firms quietly extract billions through structural flaws like scheduled futures expiry2. The "gol...

Granola is the AI notepad for professionals in back-to-back meetings. New users get 100% off their first month → https://granola.ai?via=KUzb8NmAli Hussain scaled Latch from a team of less than 10 to over 500 people. At one point, 1 in 10 new apartments in America was going up with their smart locks. He rode that growth all the way to a NASDAQ IPO.Then he started over. In 2023, he founded Tabs, bui...

This Founder pivoted four times before it worked, and says every pivot only made his conviction stronger. Purya Sarmadi, co-founder and CEO of MedMe Health, the Y Combinator startup now powering over 4,500 pharmacies across North America. In this conversation, Purya breaks down the distinction most first-time founders miss: being on the wrong wedge is not the same as being in the wrong market. He...

Bharat Chandar, postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, breaks down why young workers in AI-exposed jobs are seeing 16% slower employment growth and how using AI as a learning tool could turn a career ladder into a career lattice.00:00 Intro01:05 Canaries in the Coal Mine - What is happening to entry-level workers?03:26 Young Workers Lost Their Edge. Where’s the new one?06:34 Fr...

Matt Beane, Associate Professor of Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara & author of The Skill Code, breaks down why AI's endless flood of B+ work is a trillion-dollar threat to human skill, and how challenge, complexity, and connection keep people learning when experts no longer need novices. He also shares what leaders and organizations should do before the deskilling bill comes due.00:00 In...

Yasser Elsaid, founder of Chatbase, bootstrapped to $10M ARR with no funding. We asked him 15 questions to break down the exact playbook.*Brought to you by:*Begin your 2-week free trial with Attio, the AI-native CRM platform to power your growth 👉 https://attio.com/eo*In this episode, we cover:*00:00 Intro01:03 Why Bootstrap?02:30 The Common Mistake Bootstrap Founders Make03:45 EO Partner Highlig...

Tom Yeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder & creator of AI by Hand, breaks down why he teaches AI by hand at human speed, and how focusing on mathematical foundations rather than the latest tools builds a skill that survives every hype cycle.00:00 Intro00:46 Why I Teach AI by Hand- The Power of Learning "Slow"04:07 The Foundation That Doesn't Burn09:32 T...

Dan Wang, author of Breakneck and research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, explains why China's engineering-driven system is outbuilding America at breathtaking speed — and what both superpowers keep getting wrong.00:00 Intro 01:26 Does the Future Belong to China? - America's Biggest Mistake06:48 The Dark Side of the Engineering State11:32 Winning by Losing Less16:01 Next Episode'The Thin...

Nic Baird was on track to become one of the best sailors in the world. He walked away to make a statistical bet on startups, and built Koah Labs, the ad monetization platform for AI tools, raising $26M along the way. In this interview, Nic opens up about:The decision framework he learned from competitive sailing: how to make the biggest bets of your life when you don't have all the informationWhy...

Big Tech is NOT the Only Answer to Win | Relay.app, Jacob Bank Today's guest is Jacob Bank, founder and CEO of Relay.app, a company that automates tedious, repetitive tasks like scheduling and onboarding, making teamwork smoother and more efficient. In this video, Jacob shares powerful insights from his time at Google as a team leader and talented PM, his take on choosing between startups and big...

How We Went from Zero Buyers to One of the FastestGrowing B2B StartupsㅣTranscend, Ben Brook Ben Brook is CoFounder and CEO of Transcend, a privacy infrastructure company helping businesses automate data privacy and governance. With over $90 million in funding and more than 2,000 B2B SaaS customers, Transcend reached $18.3 million in annual revenue as of 2023. In this interview, Ben shares practic...

How He Helped Double Lung Cancer Survival Rates from 13% to 26% | Dorian Averbuch Today's story is about Dorian Averbuch. He has created and exited two companies in the healthcare field and is continuing to take on new challenges. Early diagnostics of cancer significantly increases survival rates. The technologies and products developed by Dorian has greatly contributed to the increase in lung can...

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