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Monad Testnet Loading: 99%... Curious about Monad and how to get involved? 💜 Watch JE Labs' exclusive interview with the co-founder of Monad Keone Hon. In the video, he dives into Monad’s vision, groundbreaking technology, and future roadmap. 🟣 Story behind Monad - 00:48 🟣 Technology Innovation - 03:52... show more

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What happens when AI agents make mistakes? On this week’s episode of The Investment Memo, Lightspeed Partner James Alcorn sits down with Judgment Labs co-founder Alex Shan to discuss the agent workflow (and more). Alex started researching AI performance at Stanford when he was just 16. Today, alongside co-founders Andrew Li and Joseph Camyre, the team is building the quality layer for the agent era. The episode goes deep into many critical questions, like why agent evaluation is becoming critical infrastructure, how to measure trust and reliability, and what breaks when agents move from demos to production. We’re excited to have led the Seed and co-led the Series A, totaling $32M in funding. Tune into the full conversation about the future of AI evaluation, in the era where judgment is everything. Chapters 0:00 Putting Agent Improvement On Autopilot 2:20 What Judgment Labs Actually Does 3:09 Being A Full Lifecycle Agent Behavior Monitoring Platform 4:59 How The Co-Founders Met 7:57 The Fundraising Journey With Lightspeed 11:57 Two Core Technological Bets That Shaped The Product 14:49 The Philosophy Behind Partnering With Customers 17:28 How They Choose Their Early Customers 19:40 The 5-Year Vision For Judgment Labs 22:10 Where The Business Goes From Here 24:39 How To Get In Touch With Alex And The Team

Lightspeed

18,045 views • 1 month ago

America. We have a new steel company - Hertha Metals It uses electricity instead of coal to make steel. It was founded by Laureen Meroueh, who is something of a child prodigy. The US could very much use this technology at the moment. We dig into why here on the pod The Core Memory pod, which the NYT will eventually hail as the smartest podcast on Earth, and its big ideas are brought to you by the big idea people Brex. The show is also made possible by the big idea backers @e1ventures Come for the ore, stay to learn about Hertha Ayrton Full episode here, wherever you like to get pods and on YouTube down below Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:43 Starting College at Age 13 00:09:15 Reinventing the Steel Industry 00:12:54 From Battery Tech to Steel 00:19:28 How Traditional Blast Furnaces Work 00:22:40 Eliminating Coal for Natural Gas 00:28:15 Cutting Costs and Carbon 00:32:01 Proving the Technology Scales 00:35:22 The US Steel Supply Crisis 00:40:31 Protecting the Secret Formula 00:43:49 Solving the Rare Earth Shortage 00:46:28 Timeline to Commercial Production 00:52:53 Surviving the Valley of Death 00:55:48 Why Build in Houston? 01:01:12 A Woman in Heavy Industry 01:06:10 Inside the Steel Foundry 01:14:47 Reindustrializing the United States 01:36:22 The Story Behind the Name

America. We have a new steel company - Hertha Metals It uses electricity instead of coal to make steel. It was founded by Laureen Meroueh, who is something of a child prodigy. The US could very much use this technology at the moment. We dig into why here on the pod The Core Memory pod, which the NYT will eventually hail as the smartest podcast on Earth, and its big ideas are brought to you by the big idea people Brex. The show is also made possible by the big idea backers @e1ventures Come for the ore, stay to learn about Hertha Ayrton Full episode here, wherever you like to get pods and on YouTube down below Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:43 Starting College at Age 13 00:09:15 Reinventing the Steel Industry 00:12:54 From Battery Tech to Steel 00:19:28 How Traditional Blast Furnaces Work 00:22:40 Eliminating Coal for Natural Gas 00:28:15 Cutting Costs and Carbon 00:32:01 Proving the Technology Scales 00:35:22 The US Steel Supply Crisis 00:40:31 Protecting the Secret Formula 00:43:49 Solving the Rare Earth Shortage 00:46:28 Timeline to Commercial Production 00:52:53 Surviving the Valley of Death 00:55:48 Why Build in Houston? 01:01:12 A Woman in Heavy Industry 01:06:10 Inside the Steel Foundry 01:14:47 Reindustrializing the United States 01:36:22 The Story Behind the Name

Ashlee Vance

39,700 views • 8 months ago

THE LIBRARY OF MINDS: EPISODE 2 - featuring Roelof Botha (Roelof Botha) Managing Partner of Sequoia. Ex-CFO of PayPal. Early backer of YouTube, Instagram, Square. Quiet architect behind generational companies. We cover: • How elite orgs think like teams-not stars • The false choice between growth & revenue • Cultural discipline > technical talent • Lessons from PayPal’s defining chaos • What founders still get wrong about scale Plus: How Sequoia Capital beats complacency, the discipline to cut early for culture, personal tales of hardship, and what it means to digitize a mind. (00:00) - Intro (01:00) - Who is Roelof (01:49) - Managing chaos: Focus and trust at PayPal during crisis (03:28) - Metrics: PayPal’s Total Payment Volume as growth driver (04:42) - Growth vs. revenue: Why great companies do both (06:48) - Square’s wedge: Card reader to financial ecosystem (09:31) - Category creation: Product quality over hype (10:55) - Retention > Distribution: Building lasting value (13:03) - companies: Mission, values, and discipline (14:34) - AI era: Rethinking org design and founder leverage (15:56) - Hardship: Pressure as a catalyst for innovation (19:03) - The crater lesson: Why immunity breeds weakness (20:23) - Adversity: Learning from PayPal’s and Sequoia’s toughest moments (23:17) - Patience: Thinking in decades at Sequoia (24:21) - Delphi: Memory, legacy, and digital minds (25:59) - No complacency: Sequoia’s culture of accountability (29:05) - Leadership: Conviction and adapting to change (32:19) - The future: Pre-mortems and staying ahead

THE LIBRARY OF MINDS: EPISODE 2 - featuring Roelof Botha (Roelof Botha) Managing Partner of Sequoia. Ex-CFO of PayPal. Early backer of YouTube, Instagram, Square. Quiet architect behind generational companies. We cover: • How elite orgs think like teams-not stars • The false choice between growth & revenue • Cultural discipline > technical talent • Lessons from PayPal’s defining chaos • What founders still get wrong about scale Plus: How Sequoia Capital beats complacency, the discipline to cut early for culture, personal tales of hardship, and what it means to digitize a mind. (00:00) - Intro (01:00) - Who is Roelof (01:49) - Managing chaos: Focus and trust at PayPal during crisis (03:28) - Metrics: PayPal’s Total Payment Volume as growth driver (04:42) - Growth vs. revenue: Why great companies do both (06:48) - Square’s wedge: Card reader to financial ecosystem (09:31) - Category creation: Product quality over hype (10:55) - Retention > Distribution: Building lasting value (13:03) - companies: Mission, values, and discipline (14:34) - AI era: Rethinking org design and founder leverage (15:56) - Hardship: Pressure as a catalyst for innovation (19:03) - The crater lesson: Why immunity breeds weakness (20:23) - Adversity: Learning from PayPal’s and Sequoia’s toughest moments (23:17) - Patience: Thinking in decades at Sequoia (24:21) - Delphi: Memory, legacy, and digital minds (25:59) - No complacency: Sequoia’s culture of accountability (29:05) - Leadership: Conviction and adapting to change (32:19) - The future: Pre-mortems and staying ahead

Dara

322,445 views • 10 months ago