EO
Read bullet-point summaries of EO interviews with founders, operators, and researchers on AI, startups, learning, and emerging technology.
Episodes
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The Reason a Lot of Customers Isn't the Point | a16z, Anish Acharya
Anish Acharya, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz investing from the AI apps fund, argues that AI has fundamentally changed startup strategy: founders can
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The Reason a Lot of Customers Isn't the Point | a16z, Anish Acharya
This a16z podcast episode features Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discussing why maximizing customer count is not the right goal for
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He's Diagnosed This Pattern In Hundreds Of Companies | Eric Ries (Author of The Lean Startup)
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, explores why financially successful companies are often destroyed by the very investors who should benefit from their
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10 Questions Every Founder Should Ask Before Scaling | Tabs, Ali Hussain
Ali Hussain, co-founder and CEO of Tabs (AI and agents for finance and accounting), shares 10 lessons on scaling drawn from growing Latch to 500+ people (1 in
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Stanford CS Professor: AI Can Code. That’s Why You Should Learn | Chris Piech
Chris Piech, a Stanford computer science professor who teaches large introductory programming and math-for-AI courses, argues that despite AI's growing ability
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What's Actually Holding Humanoid Robots Back Isn't the AI | Andrew Kang, RoboStrategy
Andrew Kang, CEO of Robo Strategy (a NASDAQ-listed venture fund focused exclusively on robotics and physical AI), explains why humanoid robotics is approaching
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An Oxford mathematician on what makes us more creative than AI | Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford mathematician and Simony Professor for Public Understanding of Science, examines whether AI can match human creativity, arguing that
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How to Do Good AND Make Money | Carnegie Mellon University Po-Shen Loh
Po-Shen Loh, a Carnegie Mellon math professor and former US Math Olympiad coach, explains his philosophy of social entrepreneurship: create self-sustaining
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AI Mathematician Answers AI Questions | Ken Ono, Axiom Math
Ken Ono, a mathematician at Axiom Math and the University of Virginia, reflects on AI's disruption of mathematics, the future of research, and the importance of
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How to Stay Great When AI Is Good Enough | Matt Beane
Matt Beane, associate professor at UC Santa Barbara and CEO of Skill Bench, argues that 2026 marks a shift from AI experimentation to accountability, warning
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Even U.S. presidents failed to fix this, but he's solving it | MedMe Health, Purya Sarmadi
Purya Sarmadi, co-founder and CEO of MedMe Health, built a platform that powers operations, integrations, and automations for over 4,500 pharmacies across North
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How to Build a Career When Everything Is Changing | Snowflake, Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake and former Google ads leader, shares his career journey from a PhD in the US to founding the search startup Neeva (which
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What you must know before Mythos arrives | Nebulock, Damien Lewke
Damien Lewke, founder and CEO of Nebulo, argues that AI has collapsed the cybersecurity talent gap into a subscription model — meaning a single unskilled
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How Gong Built a $7B+ Company in the Age of Vibe Coding | Amit Bendov
Amit Bendov, co-founder and CEO of Gong, shares the story of building a $7B revenue AI company — from a childhood in Israel with no family history of higher
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"ChatGPT Moment" for Robotics Is Coming. The Real Problem Isn't Intelligence | Stanford, Catie Cuan
Katie Quan is a robot choreographer, roboticist, researcher, entrepreneur, and artist who runs Art Lab (AI Robot Technology) and teaches at the Stanford
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How to Steal Customers From Giants 600x Bigger than Your Startup | Pigment, Eléonore Crespo
Eléonore Crespo is co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, an AI-powered enterprise performance management platform that unifies finance, supply chain, HR, and sales
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How I Built a $1B AI Company by Knowing Real PMF From Fake | Serval, Jake Stauch
Jake Stauch is co-founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-native platform that automates corporate IT work (help desk requests, onboarding, offboarding, access
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He Raised $26M Betting on Probabilities, Not Guesses | Koah Labs, Nic Baird
Nic Baird is the co-founder and CEO of Koah Labs, an ad monetization platform for AI tools that has raised $26 million and is reaching single-digit millions of
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How I Bootstrapped a SaaS to $10M ARR With Zero Funding (15 Q&A) | Chatbase, Yasser Elsaid
Yasser Elsaid bootstrapped Chatbase, a platform for customer-facing AI agents used in support and sales, to $10 million in ARR with zero external funding
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A CS Professor on Why Slow Learning Wins in the AI Era | CU Boulder, Tom Yeh
Tom Yeh, a computer science professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and founder of the education initiative AI by Hand, argues that in the AI era the
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They Made $0 for 4 Years. Then Built a $22B Startup | The Kalshi Story
Kalshi, a regulated prediction market startup, raised a $1 billion Series F round at a $22 billion valuation — double its valuation from just five months
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Built Two Unicorns in 12 Years. The Rule Has Never Changed | Glean, Arvind Jain
Arvind Jain, founder and CEO of Glean, explains how he built two unicorn companies (Rubric and Glean) by focusing on real workplace problems, leveraging
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Why This Is the Most Exciting Time to Be Human | Ken Ono, Axiom Math
Ken Ono is a mathematician and founder of Axiom Math who has spent his career studying creativity, genius, and how humans think. A year ago, his world shifted
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The Problem with AI Agents No One is Talking About | Yutori, Abhishek Das
Abhishek Das, co-founder and co-CEO of Yutori, discusses building reliable web agents, his research background, and why the AI industry's tolerance for
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This 25-Year-Old Built a 2-Year Moat Nobody Can Bet Against | Corgi, Nico Laqua & Emily Yuan
Corgi is an AI-native insurance carrier built from scratch for tech startups, founded by Nico Laqua (CEO) and Emily Yuan (COO). What started as a simple
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This 26 y/o 10x'd Revenue Doing the Opposite of Every AI Startup | Paraform, John Kim
Paraform: The AI Startup That Pays Humans $50M
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This Ex-Quant Had to Quit Wall Street to Build a 24/7 Stock Exchange | QFEX, Annanay Kapila
Annanay Kapila left a lucrative career as a high-frequency trading (HFT) quant—where he managed strategies responsible for up to $10 billion in daily trades—to
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AI Is Killing the Career Ladder. A Stanford Economist Explains What Comes Next | Bharat Chandar
Stanford economist Bharat Chandar's research reveals that AI is disproportionately hurting young workers' employment prospects, with 16% slower job growth in
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China Doesn't Need Better Al to Beat America | Stanford China Researcher, Dan Wang
Dan Wang, author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Future and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, argues that the US-China competition is less
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AI is way Underhyped. He Runs His Entire Marketing Team with 40 AI Agents | Relay.app, Jacob Bank
Jacob Bank, founder and CEO of Relay.app, argues that AI is "way underhyped" — most people are using it for only 1% of its potential. He runs his entire
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35M Users. $100M ARR. My 10-Year Bet Was Right. | Otter.ai, Sam Liang
Sam Liang, co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai, has spent a decade building a company around a core frustration: most human voice knowledge throughout history has
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How the Top 1% of Learners Use AI to Think Better | Anthropic, Drew Bent
Drew Bent, who leads education at Anthropic and has spent his career in tutoring and education, argues that most people dramatically underestimate what AI can
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"50 AI Agents Running My Company" Is a Lie. Here's How I Build It | Gumloop, Max Brodeur-Urbas
Max Brodeur is the founder and CEO of Gumloop, an automation platform that runs about 4 million workflows daily for companies like Instacart, Shopify, DoorDash
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This Founder is Making 1B+ Excel Workers 20x Faster | Meridian, John Ling
John Ling, co-founder and CEO of Meridian, is building AI tools for spreadsheets, aiming to make Excel workers dramatically faster. He previously worked at