The HOW of building iconic companies.
Founders who’ve done it at the highest level on recruiting, culture, intensity, and the inner game of the job. With Nakul Mandan.
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Parag Agrawal. Parallel.
Parag Agrawal, former Twitter CEO and founder of Parallel Web Systems, on building web search for AI agents. He traces his path from Physics Olympiad gold medalist to Twitter's CTO and CEO, including leading through a contested takeover, and explains why he only takes jobs he feels slightly unqualified for.
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Jake Cooper. Railway.
How Railway says no to 90% of ideas and keeps winning
David Paffenholz. Juicebox.
How Juicebox is building for the AI talent war
Arvind Jain. Glean.
$7B AI founder: "AI is not capable of replacing you right now"
Guillermo Rauch. Vercel.
Inside Vercel's AI-era playbook: "Recursive Founder Mode"
Will Bryk. Exa.
How a first-time CEO is taking on Google: No process, no NPC hires, and extreme shipping velocity
Garrett Lord. Handshake.
Handshake's remarkable refounding: a lesson in how the next AI fortunes get made
James Cadwallader. Profound.
How everyone will do marketing by 2027: ”Marketing engineers” and agents as the audience
Immad Akhund. Mercury.
Building a $5b company without 996
Cameron McCord. Nominal.
Startup lessons Silicon Valley won’t teach you
Akshay Kothari. Notion.
Business used to be go karting. Now it's Formula 1.
Ashwin Sreenivas. Decagon.
Behind the curtain of a $4.5b AI-native powerhouse
Michael Grinich. WorkOS.
$50M ARR With 3 sales reps, no CRO, and one PM
Bipul Sinha. Rubrik.
Nobody knows anything, product market fit is dead, and there's only one moat
Qasar Younis. Applied Intuition.
Battle-tested playbooks for recruiting, reading the market, and adapting to AI
Frank Slootman. Snowflake.
Frank Slootman on what most CEOs get wrong