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"ChatGPT Moment" for Robotics Is Coming. The Real Problem Isn't Intelligence | Stanford, Catie Cuan
Catie Cuan, Stanford Roboticist, Robot Choreographer, and founder of ART Lab (AI Robot Technology), breaks down why the humanoid race led by 1X and Unitree may be a myopic vision of our robotic future, and how designing for delight and human interaction, not utility alone, will shape the billions of robots coming into our lives. *In this episode, we cover:* 00:00 Intro 02:05 Billions of Robots Are Coming, Are We Ready? 09:24 Break Out of the Humanoid Imagination 15:31 You Can Build Anything. The Question is Why EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected] LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO X | @eostudi0
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How to Steal Customers From Giants 600x Bigger than Your Startup | Pigment, Eléonore Crespo
Eléonore Crespo is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, an AI performance management platform that brings a company's finance, supply chain, HR, and sales data into one place so teams can make the best possible decisions. Since the beginning of the journey, Pigment has raised over $400 million, is growing 2x year over year, and counts companies like Figma, Brex, and Anthropic among its customers. Before founding Pigment, Eléonore worked for the CFO of Google and Alphabet, where she was stunned to find that one of the most innovative companies on the planet was running its strategic planning on Google Spreadsheets. If Google was getting it wrong, she figured thousands of other companies were too. That realization became Pigment. In this interview, Eléonore opens up about: 1. Why even Google, with all its resources, planned its business on spreadsheets, and why Excel will never scale for companies like Coca-Cola with billions of rows of data 2. The decision to "climb Mount Everest" by building a full enterprise platform from day one, instead of shipping a single feature against legacy giants that have been around for 30 years 3. Why "enterprise ready" is a lie most founders tell themselves, and how a Paris startup with zero US brand awareness won over its first American customers 4. The trust playbook behind Pigment's growth: getting the most respected companies in the world to publicly vouch for you so everyone else follows 5. Her hiring philosophy, from borrowing instant credibility by hiring people from the ecosystem, to the case study and background check that actually reveal who a person is Watch to see why Eléonore believes every hiring mistake quietly lowers the bar across your entire company, and why she says taking the hardest route is often what creates your biggest advantage over time. 00:00 Intro 00:45 What is Pigment? 01:17 Even the Most Innovative Companies Got It Wrong 04:38 The Hard Path is The Fast Path 06:13 Why Enterprise Sales is Harder than Founders Think 08:39 Your Team is the Deck 10:37 The Two Hiring Stages that Reveal Everything #pigment #startup #siliconvalley EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected] LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO X | @eostudi0
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How I Built a $1B AI Company by Knowing Real PMF From Fake | Serval, Jake Stauch
Jake Stauch is the co-founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-native platform that automates the work of corporate IT teams, recently valued at $1 billion after a $75M Series B led by Sequoia.
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He Raised $26M Betting on Probabilities, Not Guesses | Koah Labs, Nic Baird
Nic Baird was on track to become one of the best sailors in the world. He walked away to make a statistical bet on startups, and built Koah Labs, the ad monetization platform for AI tools, raising $26M along the way. In this interview, Nic opens up about:
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How I Bootstrapped a SaaS to $10M ARR With Zero Funding (15 Q&A) | Chatbase, Yasser Elsaid
Yasser Elsaid, founder of Chatbase, bootstrapped to $10M ARR with no funding. We asked him 15 questions to break down the exact playbook.
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A CS Professor on Why Slow Learning Wins in the AI Era | CU Boulder, Tom Yeh
Tom Yeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, breaks down why he teaches AI by hand at human speed, and how focusing on mathematical foundations rather than the latest tools builds a skill that survives every hype cycle.
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They Made $0 for 4 Years. Then Built a $22B Startup | The Kalshi Story
Most startups spend their early years shipping products and growing users. Kalshi spent them fighting to exist.
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Built Two Unicorns in 12 Years. The Rule Has Never Changed | Glean, Arvind Jain
Arvind Jain had already built a unicorn. He could have stopped there. But when he saw his own team drowning in information they couldn't find, losing hours every day to questions no one could answer, he couldn't ignore it. He started over from scratch. That became Glean, now valued at $7 billion.
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Why This Is the Most Exciting Time to Be Human | Ken Ono, Axiom Math
Ken Ono, Founding Mathematician at Axiom Math and Commonwealth Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, explains why competing with AI on knowledge is a race humans are bound to lose, and what he believes truly defines intelligence in the age of AI.
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The Problem with AI Agents No One is Talking About | Yutori, Abhishek Das
Most AI agents don't actually work. Abhishek Das, co-founder & co-CEO of Yutori, argues that the agent industry has quietly normalized unreliability. Even at 90% accuracy per step, errors compound fast across a 10, 20, or 50-step workflow, and the whole thing breaks.
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This 25-Year-Old Built a 2-Year Moat Nobody Can Bet Against | Corgi, Nico Laqua & Emily Yuan
"Pursue the most ambitious version of whatever the idea is."
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This 26 y/o 10x'd Revenue Doing the Opposite of Every AI Startup | Paraform, John Kim
John Kim's AI startup has paid out over $50 million to human recruiters. While every other hiring platform races to replace them, Paraform bet the opposite direction, and 10x'd revenue in 2025 working with customers like Palantir, Rippling, and Decagon.
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This Ex-Quant Had to Quit Wall Street to Build a 24/7 Stock Exchange | QFEX, Annanay Kapila
Annanay Kapila ran trading strategies that moved $10 billion a day, roughly the GDP of France. He walked away from it all to build QFEX, the 24/7 global stock exchange he always wished existed.
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AI Is Killing the Career Ladder. A Stanford Economist Explains What Comes Next | Bharat Chandar
Bharat Chandar, postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, breaks down why young workers in AI-exposed jobs are seeing 16% slower employment growth and how using AI as a learning tool could turn a career ladder into a career lattice.
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China Doesn't Need Better Al to Beat America | Stanford China Researcher, Dan Wang
Dan Wang, author of Breakneck and research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, explains why China's engineering-driven system is outbuilding America at breathtaking speed — and what both superpowers keep getting wrong.
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AI is way Underhyped. He Runs His Entire Marketing Team with 40 AI Agents | Relay.app, Jacob Bank
Jacob Bank had zero marketing experience a year ago. Now he runs 40 AI agents that do the work of a $50,000 marketing team, for $500 a month. The ex-Google product lead and Relay.app founder breaks down exactly how he built, fired, and rebuilt his AI agent team from scratch, why he thinks "AI as...
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35M Users. $100M ARR. My 10-Year Bet Was Right. | Otter.ai, Sam Liang
"Shakespeare never left a voice note. That's the problem Sam Liang has spent 10 years solving."
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How the Top 1% of Learners Use AI to Think Better | Anthropic, Drew Bent
Drew Bent, Education Lead at Anthropic, explains how the top 1% of learners use AI to think better.
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"50 AI Agents Running My Company" Is a Lie. Here's How I Build It | Gumloop, Max Brodeur-Urbas
"50 AI agents running my company" — that's not automation. That's a slop machine. Max Brodeur-Urbas, Co-founder and CEO of Gumloop, just raised a $50M Series B. He got banned from the U.S. for 5 years, built countless failed products from his bedroom, then created Gumloop, now powering more than...
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This Founder is Making 1B+ Excel Workers 20x Faster | Meridian, John Ling
Why did Silicon Valley’s top VC invest $17M in this startup founder?