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Building A Startup 101 : Fire Framework│Brendan Marshall, Fund Strategy Lead at Stanford-StartX
How do you build a resilient business in the age of rapid AI disruption? In this session, Brendan Marshall breaks down his “Build the Fire” framework, explaining how to focus limited resources on the feedback loops that define success.

Community Over Capital: 3,000 Founders, Zero Equity | Pengpeng Wang
Pengpeng pulls back the curtain on StartX. She explains how their rare, zero-equity, non-profit model creates a high-trust environment where 'paying it forward' is the only currency.

GMI Cloud CEO & Founder : I’m Building AI Internet | Alex Yeh (Part 1)
As a young CEO, Alex is on a mission to build the "AI Internet," combining a bold desire for innovation with a deep commitment to energy sustainability and ethical AI.

35Y in Product Design: Software Is a Medium, Not a Tool | Bob Baxley
Bob Baxley takes us inside the real Apple culture as he reflects on the moment the first iPhone appeared on stage

Deep vs. Shallow AI: Stanford Professor on Which Strategy Will Win | Prof. Kuang Xu
Professor Kuang Xu, Associate Professor of Operations Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and one of the leading minds shaping the intersection of AI, data science, and decision-making.

GRAPHS Are Eating the World: Neo4j CTO on AI Infrastructure | Philip Rathle – Neo4j CTO (Part 1)
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer at Neo4j — a leader whose work has transformed how the world makes sense of connected data.

CRISPR Co-Inventor Reveals: Gene Editing Breakthrough | Stanford Professor Le Cong (Part 1)
Le Cong, Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, pioneering the fusion of AI and gene editing to treat cancer and immune diseases.

MIT PhD to Building America’s Largest Parking Data Network | Wen Sang – Co-Founder & COO @ Genspark
Wen Sang, Co-Founder and COO at Genspark, an AI agentic engine company pioneering the future of work for knowledge workers.

From 19-Year-Old Dropout to 3 Startup Exits: 1 IPO, 1 Unicorn, 1 Acquisition | FlashIntel CEO Yi Shi
Yi Shi, serial entrepreneur and computer scientist with 3 exits and 1 IPO before turning 25.

Stanford Physicist: Why 2025 Changes Everything! Quantum + AI = New Reality! | Xiaoliang Qi (Part 1)
Stanford physicist Xiaoliang Qi on quantum entanglement, AI, and redefining reality, with 84,000+ citations.

(Part 2) How Stanford Professor Raised $13M Seed Round for His 3rd Startup | Ram Rajagopal
Stanford Professor shares how he raised $13M for his third startup, GridCARE.

$0 Revenue, 5 Years, Then IPO: Story from Lyft & Presto Cofounder | Rajat Suri
Rajat Suri, co-founder of Lyft and Presto, on the brutal realities of entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Ex-Google VP's Startup Mission: How I Fight for a Safer Internet
A former Google VP discusses building a startup focused on creating a safer internet.

Founder Story | NVIDIA VP Reveals: How This Trillion-Dollar Tech Giant REALLY Works
Angela, NVIDIA VP of Business Operations for 25 years, reveals the company’s internal success formula.

Founder Story | How I Built a Profitable and Beloved Video App
Vlada Bortnik, co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, on building a purpose-driven video app.

From Gatekept to Frontier Labs: The Mindset That Got Him Into OpenAI | Jay Jung
What happens when the tools we build start building themselves? In this conversation, Jay Jung pulls back the curtain on life inside a frontier AI lab, where the cycle of "recursive building" is moving at an exponential curve.

BUILD AI WITHOUT LIMITS : Every Model, Day Zero | Alex Yeh (Part 2)
We explore the 'AI Factory' concept, where energy has replaced chips as the primary bottleneck for scaling intelligence.

OpenAI's Security Blind Spot. How We Stop It | Professor Bo Li
Professor Bo Li, co-founder and CEO of Virtue AI and one of the world's leading researchers in trustworthy machine learning and AI security.

Strategic Narrative: Framework Behind Salesforce, Gong & Turing | Andy Raskin
Andy Raskin takes us inside the pursuit of strategic narrative— the storytelling discipline that has shaped some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies.

Why Enterprise AI Won't Follow the AGI Monolith Path | Philip Rathle – Neo4j CTO (Part 2)
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer at Neo4j — a leader whose work has transformed how the world makes sense of connected data.

CRISPR to AI: The Next Phase of Biological Research | Stanford Professor Le Cong (Part 2)
Le Cong, Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and co-inventor who proved CRISPR gene-editing could work in humans.

From 0 to 2 Million Users & $36M ARR in 45 Days | Wen Sang – Co-Founder & COO at Genspark (Part 2)
Wen Sang, Co-Founder and COO at Genspark, the agentic AI platform that reached $36M ARR and 2M users in 45 days.

How AlphaChip Revolutionized Chip Design at Google | Anna Goldie
Anna Goldie, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and co-lead of AlphaChip, using reinforcement learning for chip design.

Stanford Professor: AI Just Hit the Human Civilization Moment | Xiaoliang Qi (Part 2)
A conversation on how AI represents a civilization-level shift comparable to the invention of language.

3 Startups, 3 Countries to Sequoia-Backed AI Founder | Kisson Lin
Ex-Meta and TikTok executive turned Sequoia-backed founder building human-AI memory systems at Tanka.ai.

(Part 1) Stanford Professor: We're Building AI Wrong! | Ram Rajagopal
The hidden AI crisis and why power, not compute, may limit AI’s future.

Refugee to $110M Fund: How I Built Silicon Valley's 45K-Founder Community in 1.5 Yrs
Mariane Bekker shares her journey from refugee to building one of Silicon Valley’s largest founder communities.

How I Built YC AI Startups
Podonos Founder & CEO Soohyun Bae, YC alum and ML PhD from Georgia Tech, on building AI startups.

Founder Story | From Dot-Com Bust to AI Boom: What I Learned the Hard Way
Bruce Wang, Netflix engineering leader and serial entrepreneur, reflects on lessons from two tech eras.

DeepSeek's AI Revolution: Ex-Google DeepMind Leaders Tell All
Founders and leaders from Bespoke Labs and Turing discuss the DeepSeek AI revolution.

Building A Startup 101 : Fire Framework│Brendan Marshall, Fund Strategy Lead at Stanford-StartX
How do you build a resilient business in the age of rapid AI disruption? In this session, Brendan Marshall breaks down his “Build the Fire” framework, explaining how to focus limited resources on the feedback loops that define success.

From Gatekept to Frontier Labs: The Mindset That Got Him Into OpenAI | Jay Jung
What happens when the tools we build start building themselves? In this conversation, Jay Jung pulls back the curtain on life inside a frontier AI lab, where the cycle of "recursive building" is moving at an exponential curve.

Community Over Capital: 3,000 Founders, Zero Equity | Pengpeng Wang
Pengpeng pulls back the curtain on StartX. She explains how their rare, zero-equity, non-profit model creates a high-trust environment where 'paying it forward' is the only currency.

BUILD AI WITHOUT LIMITS : Every Model, Day Zero | Alex Yeh (Part 2)
We explore the 'AI Factory' concept, where energy has replaced chips as the primary bottleneck for scaling intelligence.

GMI Cloud CEO & Founder : I’m Building AI Internet | Alex Yeh (Part 1)
As a young CEO, Alex is on a mission to build the "AI Internet," combining a bold desire for innovation with a deep commitment to energy sustainability and ethical AI.

OpenAI's Security Blind Spot. How We Stop It | Professor Bo Li
Professor Bo Li, co-founder and CEO of Virtue AI and one of the world's leading researchers in trustworthy machine learning and AI security.

35Y in Product Design: Software Is a Medium, Not a Tool | Bob Baxley
Bob Baxley takes us inside the real Apple culture as he reflects on the moment the first iPhone appeared on stage

Strategic Narrative: Framework Behind Salesforce, Gong & Turing | Andy Raskin
Andy Raskin takes us inside the pursuit of strategic narrative— the storytelling discipline that has shaped some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies.

Deep vs. Shallow AI: Stanford Professor on Which Strategy Will Win | Prof. Kuang Xu
Professor Kuang Xu, Associate Professor of Operations Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and one of the leading minds shaping the intersection of AI, data science, and decision-making.

Why Enterprise AI Won't Follow the AGI Monolith Path | Philip Rathle – Neo4j CTO (Part 2)
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer at Neo4j — a leader whose work has transformed how the world makes sense of connected data.

GRAPHS Are Eating the World: Neo4j CTO on AI Infrastructure | Philip Rathle – Neo4j CTO (Part 1)
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer at Neo4j — a leader whose work has transformed how the world makes sense of connected data.

CRISPR to AI: The Next Phase of Biological Research | Stanford Professor Le Cong (Part 2)
Le Cong, Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and co-inventor who proved CRISPR gene-editing could work in humans.

CRISPR Co-Inventor Reveals: Gene Editing Breakthrough | Stanford Professor Le Cong (Part 1)
Le Cong, Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, pioneering the fusion of AI and gene editing to treat cancer and immune diseases.

From 0 to 2 Million Users & $36M ARR in 45 Days | Wen Sang – Co-Founder & COO at Genspark (Part 2)
Wen Sang, Co-Founder and COO at Genspark, the agentic AI platform that reached $36M ARR and 2M users in 45 days.

MIT PhD to Building America’s Largest Parking Data Network | Wen Sang – Co-Founder & COO @ Genspark
Wen Sang, Co-Founder and COO at Genspark, an AI agentic engine company pioneering the future of work for knowledge workers.

How AlphaChip Revolutionized Chip Design at Google | Anna Goldie
Anna Goldie, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and co-lead of AlphaChip, using reinforcement learning for chip design.

From 19-Year-Old Dropout to 3 Startup Exits: 1 IPO, 1 Unicorn, 1 Acquisition | FlashIntel CEO Yi Shi
Yi Shi, serial entrepreneur and computer scientist with 3 exits and 1 IPO before turning 25.

Stanford Professor: AI Just Hit the Human Civilization Moment | Xiaoliang Qi (Part 2)
A conversation on how AI represents a civilization-level shift comparable to the invention of language.

Stanford Physicist: Why 2025 Changes Everything! Quantum + AI = New Reality! | Xiaoliang Qi (Part 1)
Stanford physicist Xiaoliang Qi on quantum entanglement, AI, and redefining reality, with 84,000+ citations.

3 Startups, 3 Countries to Sequoia-Backed AI Founder | Kisson Lin
Ex-Meta and TikTok executive turned Sequoia-backed founder building human-AI memory systems at Tanka.ai.

(Part 2) How Stanford Professor Raised $13M Seed Round for His 3rd Startup | Ram Rajagopal
Stanford Professor shares how he raised $13M for his third startup, GridCARE.

(Part 1) Stanford Professor: We're Building AI Wrong! | Ram Rajagopal
The hidden AI crisis and why power, not compute, may limit AI’s future.

$0 Revenue, 5 Years, Then IPO: Story from Lyft & Presto Cofounder | Rajat Suri
Rajat Suri, co-founder of Lyft and Presto, on the brutal realities of entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Refugee to $110M Fund: How I Built Silicon Valley's 45K-Founder Community in 1.5 Yrs
Mariane Bekker shares her journey from refugee to building one of Silicon Valley’s largest founder communities.

Ex-Google VP's Startup Mission: How I Fight for a Safer Internet
A former Google VP discusses building a startup focused on creating a safer internet.

How I Built YC AI Startups
Podonos Founder & CEO Soohyun Bae, YC alum and ML PhD from Georgia Tech, on building AI startups.

Founder Story | NVIDIA VP Reveals: How This Trillion-Dollar Tech Giant REALLY Works
Angela, NVIDIA VP of Business Operations for 25 years, reveals the company’s internal success formula.

Founder Story | From Dot-Com Bust to AI Boom: What I Learned the Hard Way
Bruce Wang, Netflix engineering leader and serial entrepreneur, reflects on lessons from two tech eras.

Founder Story | How I Built a Profitable and Beloved Video App
Vlada Bortnik, co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, on building a purpose-driven video app.

DeepSeek's AI Revolution: Ex-Google DeepMind Leaders Tell All
Founders and leaders from Bespoke Labs and Turing discuss the DeepSeek AI revolution.