The Robots Already Working in American Factories | Tutor Intelligence
What does it take to build robots that can actually work in factories and warehouses? Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein argues robotics...
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20 of 1,151 episodesHow Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
Can relentless optimization create as much value as breakthrough invention? Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari argues that radical innovation c...
Can AI Fix Professional Networking? | Inside Cosign
What if finding your next job, co-founder, or collaborator depended less on a resume and more on who is willing to vouch for you? Cosign is...
Why AI Could Turn Small Law Firms Into Billion-Dollar Businesses
What happens when AI makes legal work cheap enough to take cases lawyers couldn't afford to touch before? Eve CEO Jay Madheswaran argues tha...
The Startups Rebuilding American Industry | The AD50
America’s defense, energy, manufacturing, and robotics booms are increasingly becoming one story: the rebuilding of the country’s industrial...
Mark Cuban on Why AI Could Turn Solo Founders Into Trillionaires
Mark Cuban thinks AI could transform healthcare, but it won’t fix opaque prices and broken incentives on its own. His starting point for emp...
Reinventing School for the AI Era | Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani & Erik Torenberg
What should school look like if AI can help students learn dramatically faster? Alpha School founder Joe Liemandt argues the answer isn’t to...
OpenAI: When AI Agents Use Computers Faster Than You
AI agents are approaching a point where they can use computers faster than expert humans, turning the user interface itself into a universal...
The New Startup Playbook | Box CEO Aaron Levie
Can a 10-person startup outperform a company with hundreds of employees? Box CEO Aaron Levie argues AI agents are giving small teams a level...
What It Takes to Win as a Founder | Ben Horowitz
What does it take to build a company when AI is changing the rules this quickly? Ben Horowitz argues that technology may make companies easi...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the $220 Billion AI Buildout
Amazon expects to spend roughly $220 billion in CapEx in 2026, yet CEO Andy Jassy says the company is still leaving meaningful AI demand on...
The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon
a16z is expanding a16z crypto into a16z Frontier, a broader mandate to back founders building at the edges of what's possible. Chris Dixon j...
The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: Documents | Reducto’s Adit Abraham
AI agents can reason over enormous amounts of information, but much of the world’s actual work is still trapped in PDFs, spreadsheets, scans...
What Happens When Everyone Has a Health Expert in Their Pocket? | OpenAI’s Karan Singhal
More than 300 million people use ChatGPT for health and wellness questions each week. OpenAI’s Karan Singhal thinks that’s only the beginnin...
What Happens When Al Agents Can Spend Your Money?
Why hasn't AI transformed everyday work as quickly as coding? Town CEO Jean-Denis Greze argues the bottleneck isn't intelligence, but making...
Why Real-World AI Is Harder Than the Benchmark | EliseAI’s Mario Martone
What changes when an AI mistake doesn’t just hurt a benchmark score, but affects someone’s housing or healthcare? EliseAI Head of Applied Re...
Why AI Could Finally Fix Healthcare Access | Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz
Why is booking a doctor's appointment still so difficult, and can AI finally change that? Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz argues that the real pro...
AI Can Write the Code. Can It Run the System? | Grepr CEO Jad Naous
a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Grepr CEO Jad Naous to ask what comes after AI learns to write code: can it also debug and...
When AI Agents Start Spending Your Money | Alex Rampell & Terry Angelos
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell sits down with VGS Executive Board Member, Terry Angelos, to unpack what happens to payments when AI agent...
Can Open Models Keep Up With the AI Frontier? | Nathan Lambert
a16z Partner Lisha Li sits down with AI researcher and Trillium founder Nathan Lambert to ask how durable the gap really is between frontier...