Ethan Mollick is the Co-Director of the Generative AI Lab at Wharton, which builds prototypes and conducts research to discover how AI can help humans thrive while mitigating risks. Ethan is also an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship, and also examines the effects of artificial intelligence on work and education. His papers have been published in top journals and his book on AI, Co-Intelligence, is a New York Times bestseller.
1. Models: Is More Compute the Answer:
2. OpenAI: The Missed Opportunity, Product Roadmap and AGI:
3. VCs, Startups and AI Labs: What the World Does Not Understand:
Delian Asparouhov is a Partner at Founders Fund and Co-Founder and President of Varda Space Industries, which is building the world's first space factories. At Founders Fund Delian has led deals in the likes of Ramp ($7BN) and Sword Health ($3BN) among others. Before joining Founders Fund, he was a Principal at Khosla Ventures, Head of Growth at Teespring, and Founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale.
1. Venture Capital: Winners, Losers and Everyone Else:
2. Inside Founders Fund: What No One Sees:
3. What Every Young VC Needs to Know:
4. Europe Will Be Third World, Parenting and Marriage:
Nilan Peiris is Chief Product Officer at Wise, where he leads on growth across channels including product and platform. Prior to Wise, Nilan was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition. Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups on growth and getting to traction.
2. How to Use Content to Crush Competition:
3. Wise's Framework on How to Win at Performance Marketing:
4. The Secret to Adding More Products:
Jason Lemkin is one of the OG SaaS investors with all of his first five investments turning into unicorns with Pipedrive, Algolia, Talkdesk, Salesloft and RevenueCat all in his portfolio. SaaStr is the largest global community in SaaS and he has taught a generation the fundamentals of SaaS on saastr.com.
1. Wiz Rejects Google's $23BN Acquisition Offer:
2. Crowdstrike: WTF Happens from Here:
3. LegalTech: Show Me the Money: $1BN in a Single Day:
Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, an early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to founding A*, Kevin co-founded Eventbrite, a publicly traded company, and served as the CEO for the first 11 years of the company. Before Eventbrite, Kevin co-founded Xoom, a money remittance company that was acquired by PayPal in 2015 for over $1BN. Kevin is also a prolific angel investor having backed companies such as PayPal, Airbnb, Pinterest, Ramp, Trulia, and Anduril at the seed stage, and was an early investor in Uber, Palantir, SpaceX, Square, Gusto and many others.
1. What Makes the Best Founders:
2. The Exploding Term Sheet That Cost $10BN:
3. From World's Greatest Angel to VC with $600M AUM:
4. Learning From the World's Best Investors:
Cameron Adams is Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Canva where he is responsible for heading up the design and product teams. Since launching in 2013, Canva’s global community has grown to over 185 million monthly users in over 190 countries. In 2021, Canva was valued at $40 billion, following a $200m funding round. This saw it become one of the most valuable private software companies in the world. Prior to joining Canva, Cameron found himself working closely with Lars and Jens Rasmussen (co-founders of Google Maps) to realise the design vision for Google Wave.
1. From Accidental Joining to Most Valuable Private Company:
2. How to Create Users that Truly Love Your Products:
3. Scaling Canva into the Enterprise:
4. AI Changes Everything: More Money or Better Products Only
Pedro Franceschi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Brex, the AI-powered spend platform with tens of thousands of customers, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood and Roblox. Pedro has raised over $1.2BN for the company from the likes of Greenoaks, Ribbit, DST, Bond and YC. The latest reported valuation was $12.3BN. Before Brex, Pedro was the first person to “jailbreak” the iPhone 3G in Brazil and co-founded payments company Pagar.me with Dubugras when he was 15. In three years, Pedro scaled it to over 100 people and US$1.5 billion in transactions processed.
1. The Challenge is in Your Own Head:
2. From a 13-Year-Old Hacker in Brazil to Billionaire in LA:
3. The Importance of the Idea: What Everyone Misunderstands:
4. Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins:
Saam Motamedi is a General Partner at Greylock, where he has led investments in Abnormal Security (incubated at Greylock), Apiiro Security and Opal Security, as well as AI companies like Adept, Braintrst, Cresta, Predibase, Snorkel, and more. Before Greylock, Saam founded Guru Labs, a machine learning-driven fintech startup, and worked in product management at RelateIQ, one of the first applied AI software companies.
1. Seed Today is Frothier than 2021:
2. Series B and Growth are not a Viable Asset Class Today:
3. Markets vs Founders: The Billion Dollar Mistake and Lessons:
4. Saam Motamedi: AMA:
20VC: Why We Are in a Bubble & Now is Frothier Than 2021 | Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | Why Seed Pricing is Rational & Large Seed Rounds Have Less Risk | Why Many AI Apps Have BS Revenue & Are Not Sustainable with Saam Motamedi @ Greylock
Mark Roberge is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital and a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School. Prior to these roles, Mark was the founding CRO at HubSpot, where he scaled ARR from $0 to $100 million and expanded his team from 1 to 450 employees. Mark was ranked #19 in Forbes' Top 30 Social Sellers in the World. He was also awarded the 2010 Salesperson of the Year at the MIT Sales Conference.
1. Biggest Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $100M in ARR:
2. How the Best Startups Scale into Enterprise:
3. Second Product and Second Channel:
4. 99% of SaaS Founders Do Partnerships Wrong:
Ara Mahdessian is the Co-Founder and CEO @ ServiceTitan, one of the great vertical SaaS business of the last decade. Today the company powers over 11,800 trade customers and has raised over $1.4BN from some of the best including Bessemer, Battery, Index, ICONIQ and more. Their latest valuation pegged the business at a reported $7.3BN.
1. We Did Not Want To Raise VC Money:
2. How to Master Going Upmarket:
3. How to Build a Brand in SaaS and Have Premium Pricing:
4. How to Master the Second Product & Be the Best at Customer Success:
5. The Core Pillars of Great Leadership:
Pat Grady is one of the most successful growth investors of the last decade. As the Head of Sequoia's growth investing practice, Pat has invested in companies with a combined market cap exceeding $250BN. Among Pat's immense portfolio is Hubspot, Snowflake, ServiceNow, Okta, Amplitude, Zoom and Qualtrics. Pat is also one of the best acquirers of talent in venture hiring Andrew Reed, Matt Huang, Julien Bek.
1. The Sequoia Investment Process:
2. What Sequoia Look for When Investing:
3. The Three Core Pillars of Venture:
4. Pat Grady: AMA:
Avi Eyal is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Entrée Capital, an early-stage VC fund with a portfolio including the likes of Monday.com, Stripe, Coupang, PillPack, and Snap. From their $15M investment into Monday, Entrée distributed a whopping $1.5BN, one of their $45M funds is a whopping 37x DPI. Avi is one of the greatest venture investors you might not have heard about.
1. The Biggest BS "Rules" in Venture Capital:
2. What Makes the Best Founders:
3. The Biggest Hits and Biggest Misses:
Matt Clifford is the Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First (EF), the leading global talent investor and incubator. EF has incubated startups worth over $10bn, including Cleo, Tractable and Aztec Protocol. Matt is also Chair of ARIA, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency, and advises the UK government on AI and in 2023 served as the Prime Minister’s Representative for the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park.
1. The Most Important Questions in AI:
2. The Biggest Opportunities in AI Today:
3. China and the Race to Win the AI War:
4. What Makes Truly Great Founders: