Sachin and Adam
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Tech optimism with nuance. Hosted by @Sachin_Shah_ & @_AdamMiller_
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Exclusive: Inside Fortell (Fortell) The $740M startup that had to waitlist billionaires and celebrities for its AI hearing aid. Their custom chip helps you "hear where you look", distinguishing voices in noisy environments - which solved a problem no hearing aid had cracked in 70 years. Now they're expanding across America to start reaching the 1.5 billion people globally who need it. Founded by four wildly impressive co-founders. Plus, backed from top VC's led by Joshua Kushner Antonio Gracias Trae Stephens Josh Wolfe Gavin Baker Patrick OShaughnessy Robert Iger Jack Altman ashton kutcher Hugo Barra + more. We flew to New York, toured their factory, and tried it ourselves. To date, this is our proudest episode, truly technology at it's best. Enjoy :) 0:00 Today's Most Intelligent Hearing Aid 2:09 70 years unsolved - until now 3:34 "I'd mortgage my house for this" 4:37 Igor: A Pianist Turned Physicist 7:18 Andy + Factory Tour: "Injecting The AI" 9:00 Why they built a custom chip 10:39 Live demo: AI vs conventional 14:48 Matt: Building For His Grandparents 15:22 Cole: Can $6,800 Reach Everyone?
Sachin and Adam106,398 views • 6 days ago
Exclusive: Inside $3.8B Chai Discovery After leaving OpenAI & Stripe, co-founders Josh Meier (Joshua Meier) and Jack Dent (Jack Dent) built a pioneering AI drug design model called Chai-1. Now? Their models are used by giants like Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Novartis. Their models design antibodies in hours, not years - with atomic-level accuracy confirmed in the lab. If they're right, we're closer than ever to curing complex diseases. We went to San Francisco to find out. They've raised $600M + from sarah guo Lachy Groom Fred Ehrsam Thrive Capital Sequoia Capital General Catalyst OpenAI Menlo Ventures Index Ventures Kleiner Perkins + more. 0:00 AI drug design - how is it possible? 1:32 Josh: Leaving OpenAI for biology 2:34 90% of drugs used to fail 3:24 An outside scientist's honest take 4:40 Chai-3: Drug design in hours not years 5:30 Why Eli Lilly bet on Chai 6:20 When will this reach patients? 8:56 A hopeful future: Alzheimer's & aging
Sachin and Adam95,842 views • 20 days ago
Our entire, uncut interview with Zach Dell, CEO of Base Power. 0:00 Most Ambitious CEO We’ve Met 1:18 Why Base Was Built in Austin 2:45 "I'm Not the CEO We Need Yet" 7:35 The Family Chip on Zach's Shoulder 10:00 Why Zach Quit Investing 11:25 Anduril tour: First time meeting Justin 17:45 America vs China: The Energy Race 21:40 What Josh Kushner Taught Zach 23:40 The Pitch That Raised $1B 26:30 Base Power's "IQ Test" Product 33:10 The Problem With American Energy 36:35 "Money Machine" on Every Home 39:50 How Base Survives Booms & Busts 44:10 Zach’s 10-Year Vision 48:55 Base vs Tesla Battery 51:25 Sunday War Games with Justin 53:55 The 2021 Texas Storm 57:00 The Leaders Zach Looks Up To
Sachin and Adam109,275 views • 2 months ago
We profiled the most hyped energy startup in America. Exclusive look inside the $4B startup, Base Power, with co-founders Justin Lopas & Zach Dell A former SpaceX engineer & a Thrive capital investor, rebuilding American energy dominance. Trying to do what SpaceX did to NASA and Anduril to Lockheed. But for energy. Yep, a lot of ambition. So, what do they have to show for it? 0:00 Meet Zach & Justin: Raising $1.3B To Fix America's Grid 1:16 How The Grid Came 4 Minutes From Collapse 1:56 Zach: Why The U.S Desperately Needs A SpaceX for Energy 3:25 Justin Explain's Their Home Battery Installation 4:14 Why Thrive Capital Bet on Zach & Justin (feat. Avery Klemmer) 5:16 How Justin & Zach Met? (Anduril Factory Tour) 6:32 Zach’s Secret Co-founder Test on Justin 7:20 How Base Build Their Competitive MOAT... 10:34 Justin: “Everything you do more than once is a factory” 11:17 Zach: This Is How To Raise $1.3B from Tier-1 Funds... 13:38 How to Build An Elite Team & Culture 14:26 Zach: "I'm Never Stoked To Fire People, But..." 15:33 The Personal Cost of Being An Entrepreneur 16:35 Energy, China and America’s future 18:22 Unpacking The Chip on Zach's Shoulder 19:13 Zach: “I Am Not the CEO This Company Needs in 5 Years” 19:49 Sachin & Adam: Our 3 Biggest Takeaways
Sachin and Adam67,247 views • 3 months ago
We got exclusive access to the startup building BCI’s for brain cancer survival Two Cambridge engineers, Ben Woodington & Elise Jenkins, taking their SOMA-1 implant to human trials this month This episode profiles Coherence Neuro and their Palo Alto research lab (featuring a live BCI mice demo) to learn about this new form of cancer treatment Chapters 0:00 What is glioblastoma cancer? 3:17 Meet the founders - Ben & Elise 5:55 Inside the SOMA-1 device 6:56 How Coherence Neuro started 9:35 Why this technology is needed ASAP 11:22 Live Demo: Inside Coherence's Lab 14:53 Why MRIs (and other current tech) isn't good enough 15:50 When will patients have access to SOMA-1? 17:30 A future where cancer isn't terminal
Sachin and Adam32,004 views • 3 months ago
"America is going to lose the energy race. Unless someone builds the Anduril of energy." Zach Dell on why Base Power exists: "The big energy companies are all oriented around the old paradigm - coal and natural gas. They're not oriented around solar and storage." "They're not engineering-led, technology-focused, R&D-driven companies. And that's the most important point." "If America is going to lead in energy, we must have an American engineering-led, technology-focused, R&D-driven energy technology company or else we're screwed."
Sachin and Adam25,886 views • 3 months ago
Thrive Capital used one word to describe how Justin Lopas operates. Militant - the execution tempo he absorbed at SpaceX and Anduril, not by standing next to it but by living inside it long enough that the standard became instinct. Zach Dell was the other half of that. His ambition doesn't deplete the way most people's does. You run him into the walls that quietly end most founders, and the capacity refills. One of the biggest markets in the world, two founders who couldn't be talked out of it. That's what Thrive saw before the narrative existed to describe it.
Sachin and Adam20,040 views • 3 months ago
NEW VIDEO: We visited the $300M startup Superpower to understand how they’re attempting to build a new healthcare system - one that puts disease prevention first. Along the way, we interviewed CEO Max Marchione, key company leaders & even tested the product for ourselves, which revealed our true biological ages & specific out of range biomarkers. SPOOKY. Watch the full video to find out just how different your healthcare experience may look tomorrow. (00:00) Introduction (00:46) From Law School Dropout to $300M CEO (02:50) The Broken System: Doctors Can't Widely Evaluate Like AI (04:08) Building Healthcare BEFORE You Get Sick (05:47) Superpower’s 3-Step Plan: AI, Empowerment & Prevention (11:22) Culture: Why 1/3 of the Team is Australian (And Works Weekends) (14:44) Why Chase Longevity In The First Place? (17:17) REVEAL: Our Biological Ages & Out-of-Range Biomarkers The best way to support is subscribing on YouTube! Thank you all! Hannah Ahn Manoj Arachige Ajay Prakash This episode is sponsored by Vanta. They automate security compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) so ambitious startups can focus on building instead of drowning in audits. Vanta helps founders move faster - and helps us tell the stories of companies changing the world.
Sachin and Adam27,353 views • 6 months ago
This was the exact moment Anduril engineer, Justin Lopas, and Thrive investor, Zach Dell, decided to start their company together. Zach: “ I met Justin when I was an investor at Thrive and we were doing diligence on Anduril. I went down with a current Thrive partner, Phillip Clark… and Justin was our tour guide.” Justin: “ He was very interested in batteries and the grid, and I similarly was as, as well, but in particular: 1) How do you manufacture them at scale? 2) How do you distribute them and install them at scale? 3) All of the sort of regulatory challenges with the existing grid…” Zach: “I said, "Hey, look, I think there's an opportunity to do to energy what SpaceX did to aerospace and what Anduril did to defense, and I need a co-founder. Are you interested?" And he said, "Yeah, I'm interested, but, you know, let's talk through it." And we spent the next three months... You know, we would get on the phone every night basically at 9:00 PM and talk, sometimes for 30 minutes, sometimes for three hours, and just, you know, churn through the idea and kinda iterate, iterate, iterate together”
Sachin and Adam15,654 views • 3 months ago
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