Curated summaries and insights from my favorite podcast episodes.
This episode discusses the integration of Gemini 3 and Generative UI (Gen UI) into Google Search, enabling more sophisticated reasoning, coding, and visual outputs to enhance user understanding and cr...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai discusses the recent rollout of Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, emphasizing Google's long-term, full-stack AI strategy.
The episode discusses the advancements in Google's Gemini models, particularly Gemini 3, and how these models are being developed and integrated into products.
This episode discusses the evolution of Google DeepMind's video generation model, Veo, from its early "moonshot" beginnings to the recent Veo 3 release.
The episode features Pushmeet Kohli discussing DeepMind's science and strategic initiatives, focusing on how AI is being used to tackle major scientific, commercial, and social challenges.
Google's Gemini model has been updated with significant improvements in native image generation and editing capabilities, allowing for more natural language interaction and greater creative control.
This podcast episode features Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, discussing the company's rapid progress in AI, particularly focusing on the development of "thinking models" and "world models" li...
This podcast episode discusses Google's LiveAPI, a multi-modal interface that allows developers to build real-time voice AI applications using Gemini, highlighting its evolution, diverse use cases, an...
Google Search is evolving into a frontier AI product, powered by Gemini models, to enhance information retrieval and task execution for billions of users. This transformation aims to make search more ...
This podcast episode discusses Gemini's multimodal vision capabilities, emphasizing its foundational design to perceive the world like humans for building powerful AI systems and achieving Artificial ...
This episode discusses the limitations of current AI models and the need for decentralized protocols to make AI economically productive and accountable actors. Talus Network is presented as a solution...
This episode discusses the evolution of institutional adoption in crypto, highlighting the critical need for privacy and customizable infrastructure, as exemplified by the Canton Network.
This episode explores the evolution of game monetization and distribution models, from Zynga's early freemium approach to the potential of Open Game Protocol (OGP) to reward players and communities.
The episode discusses the need for an AI curation and orchestration layer, introducing Recall as a decentralized skill marketplace.
The podcast features Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins, discussing how he transformed a struggling NFT project into a $50 million ARR business by focusing on culture, community, and a reimagined consum...
This podcast episode features the co-founders of HyperFi, Androo and Andy, who discuss their venture building a debt servicing and leveraged lending protocol on the Hyperliquid ecosystem. They explain...
This episode features Omnia, co-founder of Kinetic, discussing their new native liquid staking protocol for HYPE on HyperLiquid, which aims to provide a fully on-chain and trustless solution. The conv...
This podcast episode features Leah Wald and Max Kaplan of Sol Strategies, a company focusing on leveraging Solana's native yield capabilities through validator operations to build a unique public equi...
The podcast features Nikita Afzinek, founder of BarterSwap, discussing the evolution of DeFi exchanges from traditional order books to Automated Market Makers (AMMs) and the pervasive issue of Maximal...
This episode discusses the existential challenge AI presents to traditional SaaS companies, arguing that most will fail to adapt without a radical transformation.
The episode discusses the significant impact of AI agents on sales and go-to-market (GTM) strategies, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for companies adopting these technologies.
The episode discusses how SaaS companies can transition to being AI-native by fundamentally changing their architecture rather than just adding AI features.
The episode details Personio's successful journey in transforming their go-to-market (GTM) strategy with AI, outlining key lessons learned, practical use cases, and the importance of cultural integrat...
The episode discusses the critical need for B2B companies to embrace AI in 2026 to find growth "tailwinds" or risk falling behind.
The episode features a discussion on crucial sales and leadership insights, particularly from the perspective of Maggie, who shares her experience with a serious health battle. Key topics include iden...
The podcast discusses how the rise of AI is fundamentally changing the sales playbook, making traditional methods less effective and emphasizing the need for genuine product expertise and value-driven...
The podcast discusses how AI agents can be used to hyper-customize go-to-market strategies at scale, improving efficiency and effectiveness.
This episode of the SaaStr Podcast explores how SaaStr leverages over 20 AI agents for marketing and go-to-market strategies, emphasizing that while AI automates tasks, it enables better and more exte...
This episode details SaaStr's experience over six months of integrating AI agents into their go-to-market strategy, focusing on how these agents function, their successes, and unexpected learnings.
This episode features Max Junestrand, CEO of Legora, a legal AI company, discussing the rapid growth and competitive landscape of AI in the legal tech industry.
The podcast features a candid discussion with sales leader Chad Peets, emphasizing the need for highly driven and obsessive individuals in sales roles.
This episode features an interview with Harry Stebbings by Simon Squibb, where Stebbings shares his journey in building 20VC, including fundraising for a $400 million fund and strategies for cold outr...
The hosts discuss the current state of venture capital, questioning its viability amidst public market valuations and the shift of growth towards AI. They analyze significant tech news, including the ...
Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey, discusses the rapid growth of legal AI, the importance of company-building beyond product-market fit, and the strategic considerations for scaling an AI company. The c...
This episode explores how AI is transforming product development, impacting the design phase, the role of product managers, and the nature of effective storytelling.
The episode analyzes major venture capital rounds, including Anthropic's $10 billion raise and Andreessen Horowitz's $15 billion fund, discussing the future of AI companies like OpenAI and ElevenLabs,...
This episode features Alex Rampell of Andreessen Horowitz discussing the firm's $15 billion fundraise and the evolving landscape of venture capital.
This episode features Luke Harries, Head of Growth at ElevenLabs, discussing ElevenLabs' rapid growth and unique approach to product and marketing.
This episode features a candid discussion with Chad Peets on the essential qualities of top sales performers and effective sales leadership.
The hosts discuss the significant presence of AI and robotics at CES 2026, highlighting both impressive advancements and humorous failures.
The episode discusses the rapid advancements and evolving landscape of AI in 2025 and anticipation for 2026, highlighting the productization of AI by companies like Anthropic and Google, the ongoing d...
This episode celebrates the best moments of 2025 on TWiT, reflecting on the year's technological advancements, industry shifts, and the podcast's own journey.
The hosts discuss Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" selection of AI architects, the potential for smaller AI models to be more efficient than large, power-hungry ones, and the evolving landscape of...
The hosts discuss the implications of the Cox Communications copyright case before the Supreme Court, the proliferation of age verification laws, and the challenges of building a truly anonymous lapto...
The hosts discuss the often misleading statistics surrounding Black Friday sales, attributing overall revenue increases primarily to inflation rather than actual sales volume growth.
The episode discusses Australia's new age verification laws for social media, the challenges in implementing them, and the broader implications for online privacy and child protection.
The episode features Victoria Song and Christina Warren discussing the Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses with a heads-up display, focusing on their capabilities and real-world use.
The hosts discuss Elon Musk's controversial $1 trillion salary package, SpaceX's move into the cellular industry, and the challenges of space debris.
The panel discusses the US failure to adopt permanent daylight saving time, the increasing use and implications of AI in coding and cybersecurity, and the potential economic impact of AI investment.
The episode explains that acquiring early customers is more about a search for people with specific needs or early adopter tendencies than persuasion.
Stokespace is developing fully and rapidly reusable rockets to significantly reduce the cost and increase the accessibility of space travel.
The podcast discusses surprising trends observed in 2025, including the stabilization of the AI economy with clear roles for model, application, and infrastructure layers, and a shift in developer pre...
This episode discusses the ArchPrize Foundation's mission to advance AI towards human-like generalization, focusing on its ARC AGI benchmark as a measure of an AI's ability to learn new things efficie...
This episode explores how AI is blurring the lines between design and engineering roles, enabling designers to code and engineers to design, with code becoming a shared language.
This episode features James Hawkins, CEO of PostHog, discussing his journey from "pivot hell" to building a $1.4 billion unicorn. Hawkins shares insights on finding product-market fit through iterativ...
This episode explores how AI is reshaping the landscape for consumer startups, making previously "impossible" ideas feasible and highlighting new opportunities in areas like media creation and persona...
This episode features Rio Lu, Head of Design at Cursor, reviewing user-submitted websites built with Cursor.
StarCloud is pioneering the development of data centers in space, launching a satellite with an NVIDIA H100 GPU to demonstrate the feasibility of orbital AI compute. This ambitious venture aims to all...
This episode features David Paffenholz, co-founder of Juicebox, offering advice on how startups can effectively source and hire their first engineers and sales representatives.
The episode discusses the evolution of internet communities and the concept of "network states," drawing parallels to the foundational role of Netscape in the early internet.
The podcast discusses the evolving U.S. healthcare landscape in 2026, highlighting shifts in consumer behavior towards more out-of-pocket spending, increased adoption of AI in healthcare, and the grow...
This episode examines how the economics of AI are rapidly evolving, with significant implications for private markets and venture capital. The discussion highlights the massive infrastructure build-ou...
The podcast discusses the evolution of documentation, from a static, human-centric afterthought to a critical, dynamic infrastructure component powering AI agents and coding assistants. Mintlify, the ...
This episode discusses the critical but often overlooked challenges of AI inference, the process of running trained AI models.
The episode discusses the accelerating demand for AI and the accompanying infrastructure constraints, reframing the narrative beyond a simple AI bubble or smooth scaling.
The episode discusses Sourcegraph's evolution from code search to AI agents, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in the current AI landscape.
This episode argues that the true AI opportunity lies beyond just foundational models, focusing instead on the applications, distribution channels, and unique data inputs that drive enduring companies...
The episode discusses the evolution of AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), moving beyond the "scaling is all you need" paradigm.
The episode discusses the shift in the information environment from a controlled to a liberated era, highlighting the impact of platforms like Substack and individuals like Elon Musk.