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Karri Saarinen (Karri Saarinen), co-founder and CEO of Linear, was the first designer at Coinbase and a lead designer at Airbnb. On Design Review with YC's Aaron Epstein, he shares how his design background shaped Linear's product philosophy, why quality and craft matter from day one, what founders should look for when hiring, and how AI is changing the way teams build. 02:00 – Lessons learned from YC, Coinbase, and Airbnb 06:00 – Building trust through brand and design 08:24 – Linear’s brand: craft, quality, and authenticity 10:40 – Why sales is part of the brand experience 13:10 – Shipping fast without losing quality 17:18 – Hiring for product taste and judgment 19:28 – Superpowers of designers as founders 21:12 – Advice for designers considering founding a startup 23:26 – Why founders should care about design from day one 25:24 – Tips for creating products that stand out 28:24 – Balancing creative freedom with shipping timelines 28:56 – How AI is changing design and product work 30:44 – Why AI won’t replace designers (and what shifts to expect) 32:44 – The future of product and design teams with AI

Y Combinator

77,233 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

Did a PGX Ideas episode with Gad Saad. In case you guys aren’t familiar with the format — I take one central question and chase it with the guest. With Gad, I asked: Why do we want what we want? That led us to questions like: - Why humans are wired to consume - Why we over-consume and compare - Why men chase power - How marketing exploits evolutionary instincts - Why people buy ideologies, not just products - And how technology will change human desire itself The Hindi-dubbed AI version is also attached in this thread. Timestamps: 00:00 — Why are humans wired to consume? 05:27 — Why do people avoid emotional principles? 08:36 — Why do we over-consume? 13:04 — Why do men chase power? 17:32 — How do humans consume? 29:40 — Are fake smiles a form of social deception? 33:11 — Why did Mamdani win? 39:40 — What do marketers understand about humans? 43:24 — Why do we buy through comparison? 45:44 — What’s broken in modern society? 48:10 — Why do intellectuals dress poorly? 56:14 — How marketing psychology actually works 1:05:00 — How do generations differ in consumption? 1:07:44 — The Sydney Sweeney controversy 1:10:33 — Does morality shape evolution? 1:15:35 — How will technology change consumption? 1:22:46 — Questions for me
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Did a PGX Ideas episode with Gad Saad. In case you guys aren’t familiar with the format — I take one central question and chase it with the guest. With Gad, I asked: Why do we want what we want? That led us to questions like: - Why humans are wired to consume - Why we over-consume and compare - Why men chase power - How marketing exploits evolutionary instincts - Why people buy ideologies, not just products - And how technology will change human desire itself The Hindi-dubbed AI version is also attached in this thread. Timestamps: 00:00 — Why are humans wired to consume? 05:27 — Why do people avoid emotional principles? 08:36 — Why do we over-consume? 13:04 — Why do men chase power? 17:32 — How do humans consume? 29:40 — Are fake smiles a form of social deception? 33:11 — Why did Mamdani win? 39:40 — What do marketers understand about humans? 43:24 — Why do we buy through comparison? 45:44 — What’s broken in modern society? 48:10 — Why do intellectuals dress poorly? 56:14 — How marketing psychology actually works 1:05:00 — How do generations differ in consumption? 1:07:44 — The Sydney Sweeney controversy 1:10:33 — Does morality shape evolution? 1:15:35 — How will technology change consumption? 1:22:46 — Questions for me

Prakhar Gupta

30,701 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

BREAKING: How Qasar Younis (CEO) & Peter Ludwig (CTO) Quietly Built Applied Intuition into a Serious $15B Physical AI Giant “Most companies in the Bay Area are more hobby projects than they are serious businesses.” → $1B+ raised.. barely touched → AI for cars, agriculture, mining, defense, machines → 18/20 top automakers as customers We cover: • Why physical AI is fundamentally different from software AI • How breakthroughs like transformers unlocked real-world autonomy • The company’s horizontal-first strategy across industries • Why they stayed quiet for years.. & why that changed • How they deploy autonomy in defense and industrial environments • What hiring looks like in the AI era 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Qasar Younis & Peter, Co-Founders Applied Intuition (01:15) Most startups are just "hobby projects" (03:55) Becoming more public (07:33) The breakthroughs that reshaped their strategy (11:01) A moon rover simulator? (11:37) Expansion playbook (13:55) Raised $1B… Didn’t Use It (15:04) Hiring in the AI era (18:17) A team full of ex-founders and CTOs (19:28) From manual to autonomous in 10 days (23:18) Why great products drive results (25:44) Books that shape thinking & why old books matter (29:38) Turning books into company playbooks
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BREAKING: How Qasar Younis (CEO) & Peter Ludwig (CTO) Quietly Built Applied Intuition into a Serious $15B Physical AI Giant “Most companies in the Bay Area are more hobby projects than they are serious businesses.” → $1B+ raised.. barely touched → AI for cars, agriculture, mining, defense, machines → 18/20 top automakers as customers We cover: • Why physical AI is fundamentally different from software AI • How breakthroughs like transformers unlocked real-world autonomy • The company’s horizontal-first strategy across industries • Why they stayed quiet for years.. & why that changed • How they deploy autonomy in defense and industrial environments • What hiring looks like in the AI era 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Qasar Younis & Peter, Co-Founders Applied Intuition (01:15) Most startups are just "hobby projects" (03:55) Becoming more public (07:33) The breakthroughs that reshaped their strategy (11:01) A moon rover simulator? (11:37) Expansion playbook (13:55) Raised $1B… Didn’t Use It (15:04) Hiring in the AI era (18:17) A team full of ex-founders and CTOs (19:28) From manual to autonomous in 10 days (23:18) Why great products drive results (25:44) Books that shape thinking & why old books matter (29:38) Turning books into company playbooks

Molly O’Shea

136,292 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

"The pace of building has changed so quickly with AI. You have to give somewhere. And we gave for speed." Ashwin Sreenivas. Co-founder & President of Decagon. You'd be hard pressed to find another startup moving as ferociously as this one. Knuckle Up ↓ 00:00 Intro 02:10 How did Jesse and Ashwin decide what to work on at Decagon? 04:19 Why did they reject the top-down market-sizing approach? 13:16 What does Decagon give up to keep moving fast? 17:54 6 days in-office for founders, 5 for everyone else. 23:33 Why didn't Decagon hire a single employee until $1M in ARR? 27:12 How do you hire 450 people in three years without compromising quality? 31:20 Are Decagon engineers even writing code anymore? 35:08 How does the IC engineer role change with Claude Code and Cursor? 36:32 How does EPD leadership change in the AI era? 40:15 Two types of FDE, and which one do most AI companies actually need? 49:21 How will the human role at Decagon evolve over three years? 57:15 Why is Decagon building its own models with Decagon Labs? 1:00:50 What worries Ashwin most about Decagon today? 1:03:52 How does Ashwin manage his psyche while running this fast? 1:08:00 Hiccups in the startup journey. 1:09:50 Quickfire: overrated advice, AI products, books, red flags 1:12:43 What would Ashwin tell his younger self about Decagon's journey?
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"The pace of building has changed so quickly with AI. You have to give somewhere. And we gave for speed." Ashwin Sreenivas. Co-founder & President of Decagon. You'd be hard pressed to find another startup moving as ferociously as this one. Knuckle Up ↓ 00:00 Intro 02:10 How did Jesse and Ashwin decide what to work on at Decagon? 04:19 Why did they reject the top-down market-sizing approach? 13:16 What does Decagon give up to keep moving fast? 17:54 6 days in-office for founders, 5 for everyone else. 23:33 Why didn't Decagon hire a single employee until $1M in ARR? 27:12 How do you hire 450 people in three years without compromising quality? 31:20 Are Decagon engineers even writing code anymore? 35:08 How does the IC engineer role change with Claude Code and Cursor? 36:32 How does EPD leadership change in the AI era? 40:15 Two types of FDE, and which one do most AI companies actually need? 49:21 How will the human role at Decagon evolve over three years? 57:15 Why is Decagon building its own models with Decagon Labs? 1:00:50 What worries Ashwin most about Decagon today? 1:03:52 How does Ashwin manage his psyche while running this fast? 1:08:00 Hiccups in the startup journey. 1:09:50 Quickfire: overrated advice, AI products, books, red flags 1:12:43 What would Ashwin tell his younger self about Decagon's journey?

Nakul Mandan

440,533 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

The bull case for crypto isn’t memes. It’s better market structure. buffalu on why onchain finance can be cheaper, faster, and more open than the brokerage model most people use today. 0:00 Intro 0:49 What is Jito and why does it exist? 1:11 Why Solana transactions are less than a penny 2:00 What attracted Lucas to Solana from Ethereum 2:39 How Jito is like Cloudflare for blockchains 5:02 The $1,500 Ethereum transaction fee problem 7:21 The vision: all of finance onchain 7:46 Why onchain beats opening a Robinhood account 8:37 Lucas's journey from robotics to crypto 9:55 Solana's rate of improvement and Anatoly's Law 10:44 The pitch for people new to crypto 15:00 Staying lean at 21 people 15:17 Nicotine as a productivity hack 15:58 Sleep, alcohol, and the Oura ring 16:25 Movie and show recommendations 16:40 Smallest hill you'll die on: littering and shopping carts
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The bull case for crypto isn’t memes. It’s better market structure. buffalu on why onchain finance can be cheaper, faster, and more open than the brokerage model most people use today. 0:00 Intro 0:49 What is Jito and why does it exist? 1:11 Why Solana transactions are less than a penny 2:00 What attracted Lucas to Solana from Ethereum 2:39 How Jito is like Cloudflare for blockchains 5:02 The $1,500 Ethereum transaction fee problem 7:21 The vision: all of finance onchain 7:46 Why onchain beats opening a Robinhood account 8:37 Lucas's journey from robotics to crypto 9:55 Solana's rate of improvement and Anatoly's Law 10:44 The pitch for people new to crypto 15:00 Staying lean at 21 people 15:17 Nicotine as a productivity hack 15:58 Sleep, alcohol, and the Oura ring 16:25 Movie and show recommendations 16:40 Smallest hill you'll die on: littering and shopping carts

a16z crypto

19,954 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 🤗 Why Onchain Options Are Finally Working: Derive's 90% Market Share and What's Next? 0:00 - Intro 2:27 - Betting on onchain options in 2021 4:10 - Largest onchain options exchange 5:28 - Building “the infinite payoff factory” 11:59 - Why they never pivoted to perps 14:00 - The inflection point 16:37 - How RFQ works for size 18:04 - Yieldmageddon 22:19 - Vaults to be built on Derive 24:17 - Is there an LP pool-style product? 25:17 - From Lyra's AMM to Derive's CLOB 28:20 - What markets are live today? 29:09 - Which networks Derive supports 30:26 - HYPE options driving new growth 31:36 - What if HL launched options? 35:53 - Options have strong network effects 39:17 - RWA options markets coming 44:14 - Who trades on Derive? 46:13 - Growth charts 48:43 - Why options are countercyclical 51:09 - All value flows to DRV 55:08 - Synthetix’s acquisition proposal 57:43 - How big can Derive get? 1:00:27 - What's next? 1:02:03 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to Derive.xyz CoFounder & CEO for joining us!
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🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 🤗 Why Onchain Options Are Finally Working: Derive's 90% Market Share and What's Next? 0:00 - Intro 2:27 - Betting on onchain options in 2021 4:10 - Largest onchain options exchange 5:28 - Building “the infinite payoff factory” 11:59 - Why they never pivoted to perps 14:00 - The inflection point 16:37 - How RFQ works for size 18:04 - Yieldmageddon 22:19 - Vaults to be built on Derive 24:17 - Is there an LP pool-style product? 25:17 - From Lyra's AMM to Derive's CLOB 28:20 - What markets are live today? 29:09 - Which networks Derive supports 30:26 - HYPE options driving new growth 31:36 - What if HL launched options? 35:53 - Options have strong network effects 39:17 - RWA options markets coming 44:14 - Who trades on Derive? 46:13 - Growth charts 48:43 - Why options are countercyclical 51:09 - All value flows to DRV 55:08 - Synthetix’s acquisition proposal 57:43 - How big can Derive get? 1:00:27 - What's next? 1:02:03 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to Derive.xyz CoFounder & CEO for joining us!

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

42,106 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou on why Iran is far from the most dangerous threat this country faces. 0:00 Where Did the Intel About Iran Really Come From? 3:58 Why Does Israel Hate Europe? 6:24 Is There an Iranian Nuclear Program? 12:35 Using Heroin as a Weapon 17:49 Should Russia Be an Enemy of America? 23:18 Why Aren't We More Focused on Drug Cartels? 27:53 Why Would Trump Believe a Foreign Intel Agency Before His Own? 31:11 Why Didn't General Caine Advocate Against the Iran War? 38:07 Are We Going to See Terrorist Attacks in the United States? 39:56 What Is Iran Really Like? 42:32 Who Are the MEKs? 54:02 Why Did We Think Iraq Would See Americans as Liberators? 1:00:36 How Is Peace Achieved? 1:03:01 What Are America's Military Options? 1:05:00 Charlie Kirk's Assassination and the Attempt on Trump's Life 1:16:50 Has America Assumed All of Israel's Priorities? 1:19:06 What If Canada Is Taken Over by China? 1:19:43 How Do We Get U.S. Sovereignty Back? 1:25:44 The Draft and the Midterms 1:28:46 Can We Reform the CIA? 1:36:29 What's Wrong With Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz?
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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou on why Iran is far from the most dangerous threat this country faces. 0:00 Where Did the Intel About Iran Really Come From? 3:58 Why Does Israel Hate Europe? 6:24 Is There an Iranian Nuclear Program? 12:35 Using Heroin as a Weapon 17:49 Should Russia Be an Enemy of America? 23:18 Why Aren't We More Focused on Drug Cartels? 27:53 Why Would Trump Believe a Foreign Intel Agency Before His Own? 31:11 Why Didn't General Caine Advocate Against the Iran War? 38:07 Are We Going to See Terrorist Attacks in the United States? 39:56 What Is Iran Really Like? 42:32 Who Are the MEKs? 54:02 Why Did We Think Iraq Would See Americans as Liberators? 1:00:36 How Is Peace Achieved? 1:03:01 What Are America's Military Options? 1:05:00 Charlie Kirk's Assassination and the Attempt on Trump's Life 1:16:50 Has America Assumed All of Israel's Priorities? 1:19:06 What If Canada Is Taken Over by China? 1:19:43 How Do We Get U.S. Sovereignty Back? 1:25:44 The Draft and the Midterms 1:28:46 Can We Reform the CIA? 1:36:29 What's Wrong With Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz?

Tucker Carlson

1,270,033 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 💸 Financing The AI Boom: How DeFi Is Filling A Trillion-Dollar Gap 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - Founders background 5:52 - The more you know, the less money you make 8:51 - The AI infrastructure financing gap 15:22 - What is structured credit? 19:33 - How USDai GPU-backed loans work 24:54 - Addressing Pine Analytics critique 34:13 - Why AI infra borrowers use crypto rails 36:00 - Real-time GPU monitoring 36:51 - “Mercenary capital” vs common sense capital 39:14 - Why launch the token before full PMF? 42:34 - Are USDai borrowers riskier to lend to? 45:26 - How USDai tokenizes GPUs 50:58 - Managing GPU depreciation risk 53:28 - What keeps the founders up at night 54:05 - USDai vs. sUSDai, a two-token model 58:25 - The CHIP governance token 59:10 - What’s next: Road to $1B in loans 1:00:21 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to David | www.usd.ai and Conor Moore for joining us!
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🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 💸 Financing The AI Boom: How DeFi Is Filling A Trillion-Dollar Gap 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - Founders background 5:52 - The more you know, the less money you make 8:51 - The AI infrastructure financing gap 15:22 - What is structured credit? 19:33 - How USDai GPU-backed loans work 24:54 - Addressing Pine Analytics critique 34:13 - Why AI infra borrowers use crypto rails 36:00 - Real-time GPU monitoring 36:51 - “Mercenary capital” vs common sense capital 39:14 - Why launch the token before full PMF? 42:34 - Are USDai borrowers riskier to lend to? 45:26 - How USDai tokenizes GPUs 50:58 - Managing GPU depreciation risk 53:28 - What keeps the founders up at night 54:05 - USDai vs. sUSDai, a two-token model 58:25 - The CHIP governance token 59:10 - What’s next: Road to $1B in loans 1:00:21 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to David | www.usd.ai and Conor Moore for joining us!

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

26,574 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten