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This week, we sat down with Vasek Mlejnsky, CEO and Co-Founder of E2B. E2B is a platform for developers to run AI agents in the cloud securely.

We dive into the journey of starting a company with your best friend in the Czech Republic, building for AI agents before the hype, and why secure code execution is critical for scaling. Vasek also shares how E2B is becoming the go-to runtime for AI applications, the role of evals in agent development, and the challenges of pricing infrastructure while balancing user growth without hyperscaler-style pricing. 

Episode Chapters:

1. Growing up in Czech - 1:55
2. Building with your friend - 5:25
3. Starting a company in the US vs Europe - 7:05
4. State of AI agents - 11:15
5. Code execution before E2B - 14:00
6. E2B use cases - 16:10
7. Becoming AWS for AI agents - 19:00
8. Raising switching costs - 21:20
9. Computer use for agents - 26:48
10. Multi modal opportunities for agents - 30:26
11. Quick fire round - 34:45

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Everett Cook, CEO and Co-Founder of Rho. Rho is a financial operating platform for fast-growing businesses.

We dive into ideating as a first time founder, discovering the cracks of business banking, building a product first organization, the trajectory of brick and mortar banks, how to structure customer service, and expanding past a BaaS solution. 

Episode Chapters:

1. Global Macro Investing - 1:56
2. Working with Mike Bloomberg - 5:15
3. Finding the "why" - 7:38
4. Working through systematic constraint - 11:10
5. Partnering with banks - 13:23
6. Competitive landscape - 19:45
7. AI enabling customer service - 23:00 
8. Nailing the ICP - 25:35
9. Banking in a box - 29:10
10. Future of Rho - 32:46
11. Ending questions - 33:35

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Finn Murphy, General Partner at Nebular. Nebular is an early-stage VC fund based in NYC that invests in the US and Europe.

We dive into building and selling his first company, how angel investing can sharpen your investing skills, whether Seed investing is a 15-year career, winning investments in Europe, and aligning LPs with your fund strategy. 

Episode Chapters:

1. Growing up in Ireland - 1:50
2. Joining VC - 8:20
3. Founding Nebular - 11:25
4. Pitching LPs - 15:52 
5. Demystifying early stage venture - 20:54
6. A global mindset - 25:32
7. The future of Seed investing - 30:50
8. How would you invest in a Seed fund? - 36:28
9. Ending questions - 40:02

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Robert Chandler, CTO and Co-Founder at Wordware. Wordware is a collaborative platform to build, iterate, and deploy AI agents.

We explore his initial interest in self-driving cars, finding PMF (knowing when to pivot), turning weak AGI into a narrow AI expert, and why prompting is the new programming with first principles in mind. 


Episode Chapters:

1. Entrepreneurship curiosity- 1:54
2. Building HeyDaily - 4:38
3. Pivot to agents - 9:42
4. End to end agent orchestration - 13:55
5. Long tail of use cases - 18:55
6. Future of Wordware - 20:56 
7. Feature prioritization - 24:24
8. Building with high switching costs - 27:48
9. Ending questions - 33:55

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Jonathan Baer, CEO and Co-Founder at Overlap. Overlap is an AI assistant that creates daily, personalized playlists of clips about anything you’re interested in

We explore navigating public opinion at Meta, why business school is good for founders, and the team of AI agents focused on making curated Overlap content. Jonathan also offers helpful advice for applying to YC (hint: new wave of consumer AI) and the value add from the accelerator.


Episode Chapters:

1. Public Policy x tech - 2:13
2. Starting at GSB -7:05
3. Genesis for Overlap - 11:58
4. Podcast market - 14:00
5. LLM based clipping algorithm - 16:55
6. Overlap use cases - 21:55
7. Applying for YC - 26:05
8. Financial element of YC - 30:31
9. Quick fire round - 35:00 

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Nicholas Marwell, a member of the technical staff at Anthropic. Anthropic is one of the most fascinating companies of the decade, building foundation models focused on safe AI.

We explore joining the post-training team at Anthropic, why folks started to be concerned about safety, understanding a model's neurons, using Claude at work, two areas Nick is most excited for AI to disrupt, and where value will accrue.

Episode Chapters:

1. Joining Anthropic- 1:55
2. Secure AI - 5:03
3. The Founding Story - 8:41
4. Interpretability - 11:33
5. Anthropic's Business Model - 15:01
6. Claude for Enterprise - 19:00
7. AI for Coding - 22:50
8. Scaling Laws - 24:30
9. Making models smarter - 28:00
10. Quick fire - 32:18

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Kofi Ampadu, a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz who leads the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO). TxO focuses on discovering and supporting high-potential entrepreneurs who have the vision and determination to build transformative businesses but lack traditional access to resources and networks.  

We explore his experiences working as an engineer at Kraft, the importance of having hard conversations early on, and what drives innovation in CPG companies. Kofi also shares how to optimize a brand for staying power, investing at the intersection of culture and lifestyle, and how TxO defines PMF.

Episode Chapters:

1. What makes Kofi, Kofi - 2:08
2. Transition from enterprise to startups - 5:38
3. SKU'd Ventures - 12:35
4. Innovation in CPG - 17:25
5. AI's impact on CPG - 21:00
6. TxO - 26:00
7. Thesis at TxO - 30:00
8. Donor advised fund - 33:30
9. Quick fire round - 41:53

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Teddy Himler, General Partner at Optimist Ventures. Optimist is an early-stage fund backing founders focused on critical technologies at the inflection stage. We explore his experiences investing in SE Asia, taking less PMF risk in emerging markets, and signals that led him to start his own fund.  Teddy also shares his perspectives on technology's secular and cyclical trends,  the importance of owning your domain, and AI breakthroughs in healthcare, insurance, and robotics.

During the episode, we reference Thomas Laffont's All-In Summit presentation

Episode Chapters:

1. Investing in internet 1.0 - 1:55
2. Historian investing style - 5:35
3. Valuations in emerging markets - 7:50 
4. Launching a fund - 12:00
5. Betting on the next 30 years - 16:14
6. Differentiation as an emerging manager - 19:10
7. Market adoption of AI - 22:39
8. LP learnings - 25:35
9. Quick fire round - 31:20

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Leeor Mushin, General Partner at Formation. Formation is an early-stage fund that partners with founders from day one. We dive into his experience starting a fund at Stanford by investing in his classmates, the journey of building a managed marketplace, and key signals that indicate it's the right time to start a fund.  Leeor also shares insights on why 'ugly ducklings' are ripe for disruption, along with his unique approach to sourcing talent and creating a competitive edge for Formation. 

Episode Chapters:

1. Growing up in Texas - 1:52
2. Moving to Stanford - 4:25
3. Founding Digital Stairway - 8:55
4. Joining Floodgate - 13:32
5. Community sourcing - 19:05
6. Starting a fund - 23:00
7. The "Ugly Duckling" - 29:51
8. Founder attributes - 35:45
9. Business school or not? - 38:40
10. Quick-fire round - 40:30

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.

This week, we sat down with Alex Reibman, CEO and Co-Founder of Agency. Agency is an agentic platform to help build reliable agents at scale. We discuss learning through competing (in hackathons), agents as self-driving programs, multi-agent tenancy, and why LLMs are not best suited for agents. We also explored which failure scenarios we can accept when building agentic systems and why community is crucial for scale. 

Episode Chapters:

1. Alex's background - 1:50
2. Enterprise to startup - 6:42
3. Hackathons to Agency - 9:50
4. What is an AI agent? - 11:40
5. How to use an agent - 15:43
6. LLMs impact on agents - 19:53
7. Agency as a product - 21:30
8. Trusting the system - 26:27
9. Who will benefit first? - 34:04
10. Do not bet against the models - 37:31
11. Quick fire round - 39:40

As always, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.

This episode is brought to you by Grata, the world's leading deal sourcing platform. Our AI-powered search, investment-grade data, and intuitive workflows give you the edge needed to find and win deals in your industry. Visit grata.com to schedule a demo today.

Fresh out of Y Combinator’s Summer batch, Overlap is an AI-driven app that uses LLMs to curate the best moments from podcast episodes. Imagine having a smart assistant who reads through every podcast transcript, finds the best parts or parts most relevant to your search, and strings them together to form a new curated stream of content - that is what Overlap does. Podcasts are an exponentially growing source of unique information. Make use of it! Check out Overlap 2.0 on the App Store today.