Matt Clifford, Co-Founder of EF, explores AI's diminishing returns, the future of autonomous agents, and the role of AI in warfare. He discusses China's AI capabilities, the importance of liquidity markets in VC, and entrepreneurship challenges in AI innovation.

Samir Vasavada, Co-Founder & CEO of Vise, shares insights on hiring mistakes, fundraising $126M in 6 months, and regrets in building a unicorn company. Topics include hiring in a hot market, fundraising challenges, regrets of raising too much money, and the impact of investor relationships on entrepreneurship.

Andrew Bialecki, Co-Founder and CEO of Klaviyo, shares insights on founding Klaviyo, sticking to the initial vision, bootstrapping vs. VC funding, IPO in a tough market, and Klaviyo's valuation. He also discusses the importance of partnerships, AI technology, building customer relationships, and optimizing cash cycles.

David Luan, CEO of Adept and former VP at OpenAI, shares insights on the future of AI models. He explores the evolution of foundation models, predicts Nvidia's move into the model space, and discusses the potential commoditization of models. Luan also touches on the importance of improving reasoning and memory in AI systems and the impact of AI on organizational structures and pricing models.

Val Scholz, former Head of Growth at Revolut, shares insights on scaling to 10M users, growth playbook secrets, product marketing strategies, and effective growth hires. Topics include referrals, content marketing, YouTube influencers, traditional marketing vs. product-led growth, and building a data-driven culture.

Michael Eisenberg, Co-Founder @ Aleph, discusses the depreciation of foundation models in AI investing, the impact of Lina Kahn on capitalism, and the future of M&A market. Insights on China potentially overtaking the US in the AI race and the threats of AI as a weapon in wars. Eisenberg also shares thoughts on liquidity sources for software companies and IPO windows.

Index Ventures' Danny Rimer shares lessons from missing out on Snapchat, Airbnb, Spotify, and Facebook. He discusses why valuation is a trap, market sizing is noise, and why sector/geo-specific funds are not important in venture capital. Rimer reflects on the importance of recognizing potential in early-stage investments for long-term success.

Janie Lee, Loom's Head of Product, shares insights from Rippling and Opendoor on product building, talent, and pricing. She discusses core skills for PMs, hiring processes, and mistakes, emphasizing communication and question-asking skills. The podcast covers valuable lessons on finding, training, and evaluating the best PM talent.

Scale.ai's CEO Alex Wang discusses improving AI model performance with better data, the military potential of AI, comparing China's advancements, and the CCP's industrial approach.

Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of Linkedin and Inflection.ai, discusses foundation models and business models, the Microsoft and Inflection deal, lessons from OpenAI board, AI's impact on truth discovery, the future of TikTok, the upcoming US elections, and Chinese companies' threat to US democracy