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Inside the Silicon Mind, hosted by Firas Sozan, takes you behind the scenes with the Founders, CEOs, and Venture Capitalists building the future of technology.Every week, Firas sits down with the operators and investors rewriting the rules of technology - from the zero-to-one…
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$1.2B AI Founder: Software Engineering is About to Change Forever (and nobody even realizes) (opens the original)
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If your product is a wrapper on top of an LLM, is your company already over? I sat down with the cofounder and CTO of Rox, the revenue agent platform backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst and Google Ventures and used by teams at OpenAI, Ramp, Confluent, MongoDB and NVIDIA, and he does not hedge on where any of this is heading.He breaks down the death of the traditional engineering org and the rise of the product engineer, why Rox runs with zero product managers, why he hires for slope rather than
Intel Capital Insider: We're Entering The Most Dangerous Phase Of AI Yet (opens the original)
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Why do the best investors almost always back the business operator over the brilliant technologist? I sat down with a venture investor who has been deploying capital since the early days of the internet and has invested through the internet, mobile and cloud waves and now AI, and he pulls back the curtain on how he separates a real technology shift from an overheated segment. This conversation dismantles the idea that AI is just another hype cycle and exposes where the money is actually moving n
Ex-Meta Insider: AI Is About to Change Forever (and nobody even realizes) (opens the original)
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Why does Nvidia stock drop every time a better open source model ships? Benny Chen thinks the market has this exactly backwards, and he has the track record to argue it. He spent years on ASICs and GPU model serving inside Meta before co-founding Fireworks AI in September 2022, raising from Benchmark almost immediately, and going on to help Cursor tune Composer 2 and Composer 2.5, help Cognition tune their model, and work with Harvey on a legal model. In this conversation we dismantle the idea t
Silicon Valley AI Founder: You’re Not Ready for the Next Phase of AI Hackers (opens the original)
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Everyone keeps repeating that AI is making cyber defenders faster and more productive, but in this episode my guest Evan Powell argues the opposite is quietly true, that AI is handing the real advantage to the attackers. He has spent decades building deep tech companies and now runs Deep Tempo, where his team built a purpose trained LogLM that reads nothing but logs and flags advanced attacks with very low false positives. Across our conversation he dismantles the theater of cyber, the idea that
How A 51 Year Old Dad Built A $300M Tech Company From Nothing! (opens the original)
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What if the worst moment of your life, the one you are most ashamed of, turned out to be the exact thing that made everything after it possible?In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Jared Shepard pulls back the curtain on a journey that runs from a homeless sixteen year old sleeping in the back of a baby blue Lincoln behind a Sinclair gas station to the founder and CEO seat of Hypori, a company he built from a failing business he bought for one million dollars into a venture worth over thr
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