Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures, a VC firm that has invested in companies like Uber, Anthropic, Pinecone, Benchling, Chime, Carta, Recursion, and more. He was previously the CTO of Splunk, a publicly traded company that was acquired by Cisco for $28 billion. Prior to that, he was the VP of Engineering at Yahoo for 14 years.

Tim's favorite book: Infinite Jest (Author: David Foster Wallace)

(00:01) Introduction
(00:07) Evolution of Databases
(03:17) Enduring Business Models in Data Management
(04:41) Challenges and Trade-offs in Database Choices
(06:20) Modern Database Architecture
(09:06) Separation of Storage and Compute
(10:35) Role of Indexing in LLM Applications
(13:20) Handling Different Types of Data in Databases
(14:50) Distributed Databases Explained
(16:20) Real-time Data Handling and Requirements
(18:53) Architecting Data Infrastructure for AI
(21:29) ETL in Modern Data Infrastructure
(24:53) AI's Role in Database Optimization
(27:17) Network Architecture
(30:13) Hardware Improvements and Database Performance
(33:35) Technological Breakthroughs and Investment Opportunities
(35:11) Rapid Fire Round

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Brad Porter is the founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, where they are building robots that will seamlessly blend into our surroundings. They've raised funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital. He was previously the CTO of Scale AI. Prior to that, he was the VP of Robotics at Amazon. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT.

Brad's favorite book: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Author: Virginia Lee Burton)

(00:00) Introduction
(02:11) Collaborative Robots Explained
(05:17) Building Blocks in Robotics
(11:01) Architecture of a Cobot
(14:12) Safety in Industrial Settings
(18:08) Sensors in Cobots
(20:20) Power Consumption and Optimization
(23:31) Zonal Compute Architecture
(26:34) AI Models for Task Planning
(30:32) Reasoning and Human Interaction
(35:00) Simulation to Real-World Deployment
(38:49) Multi-Robot Coordination
(41:57) Technological Breakthroughs in Robotics
(45:29) Rapid Fire Round

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Mehul Nariyawala is the cofounder of Matic where they are building the world's most advanced floor cleaning robots. He was previously the cofounder of Flutter, which was acquired by Google. During his career, he has held roles at Google, Like.com, and Salesforce. 

Mehul's favorite books:
- The Martian (Author: Andy Weir)
- Lyndon Johnson series (Author: Robert Caro)
- Shoe Dog (Author: Phil Knight)
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes)

(00:00) Introduction and Core Technologies
(01:26) The Evolution of Floor Cleaning Robots
(09:42) Constantly Updating Maps for Optimal Cleaning
(12:53) Differentiating Between Known and Unknown Objects
(16:03) On-Device Processing for Privacy and Energy Efficiency
(22:31) Data Collection and Privacy in Home Robotics
(24:32) Reducing Noise in Home Robots
(30:04) The Importance of Simplicity in AI Products
(32:17) Overlooked Trends in Robotics: The Rise of Rust
(40:51) Challenges and Opportunities in the Commoditization of Consumer AI

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Krish Ramineni is the cofounder and CEO of Fireflies, an AI meeting assistant that takes notes, transcribes, and analyzes all your meetings. It's used across 300,000 organizations around the world with 70% of the Fortune 500 companies using it. He was previously the cofounder of Rumblii and was at Microsoft working on customer voice analytics.

Krish's favorite book: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Author: Jack Weatherford)

(00:04) Introduction
(00:11) State of Play in Voice AI Today
(01:26) User Perception Shift in Voice AI
(01:59) Evolution of Speech to Text Technology
(04:05) Extracting Intelligence from Audio Files
(07:22) Impact of New Technology on Semantic Parsing
(12:46) Modern Capabilities and Gaps in Intent Recognition
(17:23) Advances in Speech Generation and Processing
(20:58) Role of Reinforcement Learning in Voice AI
(24:05) Handling Low Resource Languages with Transfer Learning
(28:32) Lessons from Building and Shipping Voice AI Products
(35:10) Rapid Fire Round

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Surge Biswas is the cofounder and CEO of Nabla Bio, an AI platform to enable precise drug design and high-throughput measurement of drug properties. They recently raised $26M Series A led by Radical Ventures. He has a PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from Harvard University.

Surge's favorite book: Permutation City (Author: Greg Egan)

(00:01) Introduction
(00:07) Generative AI in Drug Design
(01:19) Traditional vs. AI-driven Drug Discovery
(03:42) Designing Antibodies
(05:06) Therapeutic Antibodies Design Process
(07:39) Data Sets for AI in Drug Discovery
(10:48) High Throughput Measurement in Drug Discovery
(13:14) Setting Up High Throughput Screening Assays
(18:46) Multiplexed Screens in Drug Discovery
(21:55) Protein Characterization Techniques
(24:33) Protein-Protein Interactions
(28:12) AI in Protein Characterization
(30:55) Technological Breakthroughs in AI and Bio
(32:36) Rapid Fire Round
(36:27) Conclusion

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Michael Kohen is the founder and CEO of SparkAI, a platform that delivers real-time resolutions to longtail AI exceptions in production. SparkAI was acquired by John Deere. He was previously the cofounder of Wonder. He has also held roles at Zoox and Hero. And he got his bachelors degree from Harvard University.

Michael's favorite book: Star Maker (Author: Olaf Stapledon)

(00:00) Introduction and Definition of AI Edge Cases
(02:24) Examples of Edge Cases in Everyday Life
(03:09) Importance of Edge Cases in Various Industries
(04:09) Challenges in Resolving Edge Cases
(08:53) The Potential of Reinforcement Learning in Addressing Edge Cases
(10:48) Continuous Updating and Retraining of AI Models
(29:28) Lessons Learned in Handling Edge Cases
(31:39) Exciting AI Breakthroughs in Hardware Development
(36:18) Advice for Founders: Focus on Creating Value for Customers

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Eric Daimler is the cofounder and CEO of Conexus AI, a data management platform that provides composable and machine-verifiable data integration. He was previously an assistant dean and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the founding partner of Hg Analytics and managing director at Skilled Science. He was also the White House Presidential Innovation Fellow for Machine Intelligence and Robotics.

Eric's favorite book: ReCulturing (Author: Melissa Daimler)

(00:00) Understanding Symbolic AI
(02:42) Symbolic AI mirrors biological intelligence
(06:01) Category Theory
(08:42) Comparing Symbolic AI and Probabilistic AI
(11:22) Symbolic Generative AI
(14:19) Implementing Symbolic AI
(18:25) Symbolic Reasoning
(21:24) Explainability
(24:39) Neuro Symbolic AI
(26:41) The Future of Symbolic AI
(30:43) Rapid Fire Round

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Edward Suh is the founder and managing partner of Alpine Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. He was previously at Goodwater Capital and Redpoint Ventures. He has bachelors and masters degree from Stanford specializing in AI.

Edward's favorite book: Poor Charlie's Almanack (Author: Charlie Munger)

(00:00) Introduction and Investing Framework
(06:02) Cold Emailing and Honest Feedback
(13:23) Biases and Opportunities in the VC Ecosystem
(20:47) Disruption and Ownership in the AI Tech Stack
(24:15) Robotic Process Automation and AI Agents
(26:08) Consumer AI Opportunities
(30:00) Unlocking Opportunities in EdTech
(33:11) Technological Breakthroughs in AI
(35:04) Rapid Fire Round

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Julia Klein is a partner at March Capital, a growth-stage VC firm. Prior to this, she was the cofounder and CEO of CareerPeer. She has an MBA from Harvard.

Julia's favorite books:
- Brandon Sanderson's books
- The Nightingale (Author: Kristin Hannah)
- Crime and Punishment (Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- The Will of the Many (Author: James Islington)

(00:00) Introduction
(00:07) What Sets an AI Startup Apart
(05:14) The Rise of Generative AI
(08:00) AI and Digital Biology
(08:38) Opportunities in Computer Vision
(12:02) The Potential of Synthetic Data
(13:55) Metrics and Challenges for AI Startups
(19:27) Important Metrics for Growth Stage AI Startups
(25:12) Exciting Technological Breakthroughs in AI
(27:41) Future Opportunities for AI Founders
(29:28) Rapid Fire Round

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Anand Kannappan is the cofounder and CEO of Patronus AI, an automated AI evaluation and security company. They have raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, and Fortune 500 executives. He was previously at Meta and Vertis. He was also the cofounder of Kyber Technologies, which was a service to systematically predict market events using AI and remote sensing data. It evolved into a futures quant hedge fund managing $15M for partners.

Anand's favorite book: Harry Potter series (Author: JK Rowling)

(00:00) Introduction and Common Failure Modes of Large Language Models
(03:02) Challenges of Automated Evaluation in AI Models
(06:08) The Importance of Fine-Tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation
(09:02) Addressing Copyright Detection in Language Models
(11:51) The Liability of Companies Using AI Models
(15:02) Advancements in Multimodal Models and State Space Models
(20:48) The Role of Fine-Tuning in the Evolution of Language Models
(23:51) The Significance of Adversarial Testing in AI
(25:56) The Role of Retrieval Augmented Generation in AI
(28:05) The Need for Continuous Function Optimization in Prompting
(29:02) Rapid Fire Round

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Camilo Acosta is a GP at Perceptive VC, a pre-seed and seed stage venture firm investing in AI-first companies across the US and Latin America. He was previously a product lead at Meta. Prior to that, he was the cofounder and CEO of Pay By Group.

Camilo's favorite book: The Power Law (Author: Sebastian Mallaby)

(00:00) Introduction
(00:29) Key Factors for AI Startup Success
(01:23) Disruptive Opportunities for Startups in the AI Tech Stack
(03:15) Challenges and Opportunities in AI Hardware
(04:15) Assessing Ambitious Hardware Opportunities
(05:23) Promising Trends in Verticalized AI Applications
(06:21) Impactful AI Applications in Healthcare and Education
(08:11) Modes and Building an Edge in AI Startups
(09:10) The Importance of Truth Seeking and Paranoia in Founders
(11:13) Overlooked Opportunities in AI, Particularly Computer Vision
(13:26) Traits of Successful AI Startup Founders
(15:46) Balancing Coachability and Self-Reliance in Founders
(20:43) Personalized Compute Devices and the Future of Hardware
(22:34) Infusing AI into Venture and Private Equity Workflows
(25:34) Exciting Breakthroughs and Seed Fundable Opportunities in AI
(27:44) The Future of AI Investing and the Role of Founders
(29:48) Rapid Fire Round

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Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech. Her work developing novel AI algorithms enables and accelerates scientific applications of AI, including scientific simulations, weather forecasting, autonomous drone flights, and drug design. She has received best paper awards at venues such as NeurIPS and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. She holds degrees from the IIT Madras and Cornell University. She has conducted postdoctoral research at MIT. She was previously principal scientist at Amazon Web Services and senior director at Nvidia.

Anima's favorite book: Hyperspace (Author: Michio Kaku)

(00:00) Introduction
(00:10) The Impact of AI on Science
(02:25) AI Disrupting Physics
(03:02) Challenges in Fluid Dynamics
(06:21) Achieving Orders of Magnitude Speedup
(10:43) AI Discovering New Laws of Physics
(11:45) Complexity of Fluid Dynamics
(15:54) Simulating Physical Phenomena with AI
(22:23) AI for Drones in Strong Winds
(25:16) Optimizing Experiments with AI
(28:19) AI in Quantum Chemistry
(32:38) Technological Breakthroughs in AI
(33:23) Rapid Fire Round

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Varun Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of Codeium, an AI code generation tool used by hundreds of thousands of developers. They recently announced their $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Greenoaks and General Catalyst. He was previously at Nuro. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT.

Varun's favorite book: The Idea Factory (Author: Jon Gertner)

(00:00) Introduction and State of Play
(03:03) What Generative AI Can Do Well
(06:10) Introduction to Codeium
(08:53) Handling Different Programming Languages
(11:26) Model Architectures and Optimization
(13:27) Interpreting and Trusting AI Decisions
(18:33) Security and Privacy Considerations
(20:07) Impact on Software Quality and Developers
(21:50) Potential Obsolescence of Programming Languages
(23:39) Handling Edge Cases
(26:07) The Biggest Impact of Generative AI for Coding
(28:27) Technological Breakthroughs in Generative AI
(29:30) Rapid Fire Round

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Rajat Bhageria is the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, where they are building robots that can do the work of assembly line cooks in commercial kitchens. He's also the cofounder and managing partner of Prototype Capital, a pre-seed VC fund. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of ThirdEye, which got acquired in 2017. He has been a writer for Forbes, TechCrunch, and Huffington Post.

Rajat's favorite book: Steve Jobs (Author: Walter Isaacson)

(00:00) Fundamentals of Robotics and AI
(01:44) Sensors in the Kitchen
(03:18) Motion Control in the Kitchen
(07:15) Introduction to Chef Robotics
(10:15) Designing Robotic Grippers for the Kitchen
(14:01) Computer Vision in the Kitchen
(24:31) The Power of Marrying Software and Hardware
(28:00) Energy Consumption in Robotics
(32:18) User Experience in Robotics
(36:32) Technological Breakthroughs and Future of Robotics
(41:28) Rapid Fire Round

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Jonathan Godwin  is the cofounder and CEO of Orbital Materials, where they're using Generative AI to develop a pipeline of new materials for carbon removal and energy transition. He was previously a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind.

Jonathan's favorite book: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes)

(00:07) The Process of Discovering New Materials
(04:20) Building the Foundation Model
(06:42) The Impact of Google's GNoME Project
(08:49) Adding Materials to the Pipeline
(11:08) Computational Screening and AI
(13:43) Material Structures and Properties
(18:41) Material Formation and Degradation
(20:47) Materials for Carbon Removal and Energy Transition
(23:44) Ensuring Material Safety
(27:13) Exciting New Materials
(28:07) Breakthroughs in Material Science
(30:09) The Future of AI in Materials Discovery
(34:07) Rapid Fire Round

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Sergiy Nesterenko is the cofounder and CEO of Quilter, an AI platform to automate circuit board layout. He was previously at SpaceX for 5 years and he has a degree from UC Berkeley. They just announced their $10M Series A round led by Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley's most storied VC firms.

(00:07) What is a PCB and its role in electronic devices
(01:30) Examples of PCBs in everyday life
(04:47) Manual components of the PCB design process
(06:26) Introduction to Quilter and its automation of PCB layout
(07:46) What can be automated in PCB layout design
(08:44) Challenges in PCB layout design
(10:12) The role of AI in automating PCB layout design
(12:25) Criteria for PCB design and material selection
(14:38) Thermal management in PCB design
(15:05) Ensuring signal integrity in PCB design
(19:44) The use of AI in PCB design
(20:08) The future of AI in PCB design
(22:07) The importance of material selection in PCB design
(23:32) The importance of thermal management in PCB design
(24:11) Ensuring signal integrity in densely packed PCBs
(26:59) The potential impact of AI on the PCB design process
(28:47) The importance of aesthetics in PCB design
(29:14) The potential obsolescence of human designers in PCB design
(30:26) Exciting innovations in PCB design
(34:42) The need for systematic access to PCB design information
(36:30) Rapid Fire Round

Sergiy's favorite book: The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Author: J. R. R. Tolkien)

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Ari Morcos is the cofounder and CEO of Datology, an automated data curation platform. He was previously an AI research scientist at Meta and DeepMind. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard.

(00:07) Data Curation and its Importance
(03:29) Assessing Data Quality
(06:50) Challenges in Data Curation
(13:27) Types of Data to Remove
(19:33) Relationship Between Data Size and Model Size
(23:22) Choosing the Optimal Subset of Data
(26:23) The Future of Data Curation
(31:29) Impact on Data Management Service Providers
(36:19) Rapid Fire Round

Ari's favorite books:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes)
- The Cosmere Series (Author: Brandon Sanderson)

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Ofer Ronen is the CEO of Tomato.ai, an AI platform to soften speech accents of people as they speak. He was previously at Google where he built Contact Center AI products. Prior to this, he was the cofounder and CEO of Pulse.io and Sendori.

(00:26) Accent Modification in Real Time
(02:21) Training Data for AI Models
(04:14) Overview of Tomato AI
(05:36) Challenges in Modifying Speech Accents
(07:17) Role of Phonetics and Linguistics
(08:19) Handling Intonation and Subtleties in Different Languages
(09:36) Advances in AI for Speech Modification
(11:21) Addressing Societal Bias and Ethical Considerations
(13:08) Expanding Accent Modification to Different Accents
(14:20) Deployment on Mobile Devices and Computational Requirements
(16:02) Disclosure Policy for Accent Modification
(17:59) Future Applications of Speech Modification
(19:48) Ripe Areas for Innovation in Contact Center AI
(22:28) Impact of Generative AI on Speech Modification
(24:53) Demonstrating Success in Contact Center AI
(27:06) Future of AI and Speech Modification
(28:37) Rapid Fire Round

Ofer's favorite book: Life 3.0 (Author: Max Tegmark)

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Itamar Arel is the CEO of Tenyx, where they are building intelligent voice AI agents. He was previously the founder of Apprente and Binatix. He was previously a visiting associate professor at Stanford.

(00:22) State of Play in Voice AI
(02:21) Modern Voice Agents
(04:01) Building Voice AI Models
(05:48) The Role of Developers
(08:28) Introduction to Tenyx
(09:52) Innovative Use Cases of Voice AI
(15:20) Challenges in Voice AI
(19:18) Scaling Voice AI Across Languages
(21:45) Combating Misinformation in Voice AI
(24:17) Voice AI and Human Creativity
(26:49) Sensitive Use Cases of Voice AI
(28:48) Voice AI in the Military
(30:32) AI-Generated Voice and Disclosure
(32:28) Future of Voice AI
(34:04) Rapid Fire Round

Itamar's favorite book: Consciousness and the Brain (Author: Stanislas Dehaene)

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Apoorv Agrawal is a partner at Altimeter, a tech-focused crossover firm with investments in iconic companies such as Snowflake, Twilio, UiPath, Uber, Okta, Roblox, HubSpot, GitLab, and more. He focuses on software and AI investments. He was previously an investor at Softbank and Steadview. Prior to this, he was building AI software at Rocket Fuel and Palantir as an engineer. He continues to code to this day and has built AltimeterGPT to augment their research efforts. He has a bachelors in computer science and an MBA from Stanford. 

(00:33) The Rise of MANG VC 
(03:01) Capital Deployed by MANG VC 
(04:27) Impact of ChatGPT on Investment Strategies 
(07:16) The "Round Trip" Effect 
(10:05) Legality and Market Distortion 
(12:19) Margin Profiles of AI Businesses 
(15:28) Valuing Modern AI Businesses 
(18:30) Market Distortions and Downstream Effects 
(21:56) Considerations for Raising Capital from MANG VC 
(26:19) Role of MANG VC in the Next Two Years 
(35:02) Rapid Fire Round 

Apoorv's favorite book: Man's Search for Meaning (Author: Viktor Frankl)

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Atif Rafiq is the cofounder and CEO of Ritual, a software app to speed up innovation and move ideas to action. He has held C-suite roles at McDonald's, Volvo, and MGM Resorts. He was previously the cofounder/CEO of Covigna, which is a content management software provider. He's the author of the book Decision Sprint, which was featured on the Wall Street Journal's bestseller list.

(00:08) Defining the Future of Work
(02:06) Skills for an AI-First Workplace
(05:46) Evolution of Education Systems
(08:24) Impact of AI on Skilled Professionals
(10:30) Remote Work Effectiveness
(12:47) Equipping Teams with AI Knowledge
(15:46) Career Pivots towards AI
(17:49) Practical Steps for Problem Solving
(20:12) Value of AI Certifications
(21:27) Introduction to Ritual
(23:18) Surprising Discoveries with Ritual
(26:17) The Future Workplace
(29:09) Rapid Fire Round

Atif's favorite book: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Author: Daniel Kahneman)

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Curtis Northcutt is the cofounder and CEO of Cleanlab, a data curation platform for LLMs. They have raised $30M in funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo, Databricks, and TQ. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of ChipBrain. He has a PhD in Computer Science from MIT.

(00:07) Data Curation in the Context of LLMs
(01:14) Connection between Language Models and Computer Science
(03:14) Importance of Data Curation for LLMs
(04:06) Challenges in Data Curation for LLMs
(06:09) Confident Learning and its Concept
(09:42) CleanLab and its Role
(12:42) Role of Open Source Datasets and Tooling
(15:08) Balancing Data and Privacy in Regulated Industries
(17:25) Feasibility of Federated Learning
(20:35) Decentralized Compute and Aggregating Compute Clusters
(25:19) Determining Model Size for Data Representation
(27:09) Advice for ML Engineers in Handling Data Curation
(30:20) Rapid Fire Round

Curtis's favorite book: The Bible (in the context of marketing)

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John Dulin is the founder and CEO of Modern Intelligence, where they are building AI foundation models for defense. He was previously at Numerai and Freenome.

(00:00) Introduction
(00:08) The State of AI in Defense
(03:17) AI Impact on Tactics in Conflicts
(09:24) Real-Time Threat Assessment
(18:21) Naval Operations and Maritime Surveillance
(22:28) Startups and Maritime Technologies
(25:58) Naval Dominance and Global Power
(31:20) Multi-Intelligence in Defense
(35:20) The AI Arms Race and the Future of Defense
(38:59) Rapid Fire Round

John's favorite book: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: https://prateekj.com 
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Talia Goldberg is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where she focuses on consumer internet, software, and AI. She became the youngest elected partner in firm history. Bessemer is a VC firm with a long and storied history with investments in companies like Twilio, Shopify, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp, Twitch, and many more.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Why is consumer the biggest beneficiary of AI
- AI is generating massive consumer surplus
- Why is RLHF only a secondary moat
- Distribution tactics for consumer AI: virality via social proof, the Etsy effect, building for niche communities, standing on the shoulder of giants, "first order irrational, second order rational"
- Conversion tactics for consumer AI: entertainment as conversion, community-driven conversion, gambling psychology
- What does 2024 look like for AI startups and VCs

Talia's favorite book: Poor Charlie's Almanack (Author: Charlie Munger) 

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: https://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Dan Caron is the founder and CEO of Health Universe, where they are building an open source collaboration platform for health AI. He was previously the founder and CTO of Dark Pilot. Prior to that, he was the founder and COO of RxREVU.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- State of play in Health AI
- Why open source in Health AI
- The founding of Health Universe
- Potential risks of using open source in healthcare
- Regulatory environment
- Open source vs commercial healthcare
- Impact of the open source approach on healthcare providers and global healthcare disparities
- The future of open source in Health AI

Dan's favorite book: Build (Author: Tony Fadell)

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: https://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi