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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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