Founder Interviews

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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.

Prof. Kuang Xu2025-11-24
4K views27 likes

Why Enterprise AI Won't Follow the AGI Monolith Path | Philip Rathle - Neo4j CTO (Part 2)

Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer at Neo4 — a leader whose work has transformed how the world makes sense of connected data.

Philip Rathle2025-11-10
18K views43 likes

GRAPHS Are Eating the World: Neo4j CTO on AI Infrastructure | Philip Rathle - Neo4j CTO (Part 1)

Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer at Neo4 — a leader whose work has transformed how the world makes sense of connected data.

Philip Rathle2025-11-03
16K views37 likes

CRISPR to AI: The Next Phase of Biological Research | Stanford Professor Le Cong (Part 2)

Le Cong, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Professor Cong was one of the co-inventors who proved CRISPR gene-editing technology could work in humans

Le Cong2025-10-22
11K views39 likes

CRISPR Co-Inventor Reveals: Gene Editing Breakthrough | Stanford Professor Le Cong (Part 1)

Le Cong, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is pioneering the fusion of AI and gene editing to treat cancer and immune diseases

Le Cong2025-10-15
17K views61 likes

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 achieved $36 million in annual recurring revenue and 2 million users in just 45 days.

Wen Sang2025-10-07
23K views53 likes

MIT PhD to Building America 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.

Wen Sang2025-09-30
11K views43 likes

How AlphaChip Revolutionized Chip Design at Google | Anna Goldie

Anna Goldie – Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and co-lead of AlphaChip, the groundbreaking project that used reinforcement learning for chip design (Nature cover publication).

Anna Goldie2025-09-09
37K views101 likes

From 19-Year-Old Dropout to 3 Startup Exits: 1 IPO, 1 Unicorn, 1 Acquisition | FlashIntel CEO Yi Shi

Yi Shi - Serial entrepreneur, computer scientist, world traveler, and philosopher who achieved what most founders only dream of: 3 exits and 1 IPO before turning 25 including multiple other ventures across 4 countries.

Yi Shi2025-08-19
25K views83 likes

Stanford Professor: AI Just Hit the Human Civilization Moment | Xiaoliang Qi (Part 2)

What if I told you that we are living through a moment comparable to when humans first developed language 100,000 years ago?

Xiaoliang Qi2025-08-06
30K views150 likes

Stanford Physicist: Why 2025 Changes Everything! Quantum + AI = New Reality! | Xiaoliang Qi(Part 1)

Stanford physicist Xiaoliang Qi went from rural China to redefining our understanding of reality. With 84,000+ citations and groundbreaking work on quantum entanglement and wormholes, his journey shows how beauty in science can unlock the universe's biggest mysteries.

Xiaoliang Qi2025-07-22
34K views364 likes

3 Startups, 3 Countries to Sequoia-Backed AI Founder -- Ex-Meta/TikTok Director's Story | Kisson Lin

Ex-Meta and TikTok executive turned Sequoia-backed founder, Kisson Lin is now building the memory system for human-AI collaboration at Tanka.ai after betting early on AI agents.

Kisson Lin2025-07-07
14K views229 likes

(Part 2) How Stanford Professor Raised $13M Seed Round for His 3rd Startup | Ram Rajagopal

Stanford Professor tells his PhD students NOT to start companies... then raises $13M for his 3rd startup GridCARE

Ram Rajagopal2025-06-20
7.5K views87 likes

(Part 1) Stanford Professor: We're Building AI Wrong! | Ram Rajagopal

The Hidden AI Crisis: Why power, not compute, may limit AI's future.

Ram Rajagopal2025-06-15
11K views177 likes

$0 Revenue, 5 Years, Then IPO: Story from Lyft & Presto Cofounder | Rajat Suri

Chat with Rajat Suri, co-founder of Lyft and Presto (IPO 2022), who reveals the raw reality of entrepreneurship and why 99% of founders should never take venture capital.

Rajat Suri2025-06-09
21K views139 likes

Refugee to $110M Fund: How I Built Silicon Valley's 45K-Founder Community in 1.5 Yrs

Chat with Mariane Bekker, Partner Practice Bay Angels who shares her incredible journey from refugee to building one of Silicon Valley's largest founder communities.

Mariane Bekker2025-05-23
15K views67 likes

Ex-Google VP's Startup Mission: How I Fight for a Safer Internet

Chat with former Google VP on their startup mission to create a safer internet experience.

Former Google VP2025-05-04
14K views256 likes

How I Built YC AI Startups

Chat with Podonos Founder&CEO Soohyun Bae | YC alum | ML PhD Georgia Tech

Soohyun Bae2025-04-14
14K views278 likes

Founder Story | NVIDIA VP REVEALS: How This Trillion-Dollar Tech Giant REALLY Works

Chat with Angela, NVIDIA's VP of Business Operations for 25 years, who reveals the company's untold success formula.

Angela Ying2025-03-31
22K views260 likes

Founder Story | From Dot-Com Bust to AI Boom: What I Learned the Hard Way (So You Don't Have To)

Chat with Bruce Wang, Netflix engineering leader and serial entrepreneur – from the 2000 dot-com bubble to today's AI revolution!

Bruce Wang2025-03-17
21K views412 likes

Founder Story | How I Built a Profitable and Beloved Video App (4.8⭐, 2M Reviews) That FIGHTS Loneliness

Chat with Vlada Bortnik, co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo who shares how she built a purpose-driven video app

Vlada Bortnik2025-03-02
19K views142 likes

DeepSeek's AI Revolution: Ex-Google Deepmind Leaders Tell All

Chat with Bespoke Labs ($7.25M Seed) Founder & Turing ($50M Raised) Sr. Director.

Mahesh Sathiamoorthy; Ellie Chio2025-02-15
7.1K views138 likes

Founder Story | How She Built a $10M EV Charging Startup After Tesla Said 'No'

From Tesla Owner to EV Charging Pioneer: chat with Susan Linwood, CEO of ChargePodX.

Susan Linwood2024-10-14
18K views358 likes

Founder Story | How I Built AngelList Top 10 AI Startup

How This Founder is Saving Developers 60% of Their Time with AI

Nazrul Islam2024-09-14
13K views179 likes

From Bomb Shelter to Silicon Valley:

Women Founders' True Stories

Mariane Bekker, Vlada Bortnik, Jaclyn Zhuang, Nancy Zheng2025-01-15
6.5K views56 likes

Founder Story | From Immigrant Student to Forbes 30U30:

Learn how this founder built multiple successful startups.

Alice Ou2025-01-06
11K views9 likes

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