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LIVE: Ambient Agents and the New Agent Inbox ft. Harrison Chase of LangChain
Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: LangChain CEO Harrison Chase introduces the concept of ambient agents, AI systems that operate continuously in the background responding to events rather th…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
LIVE: How AI is Reinventing Software Business Models ft. Bret Taylor of Sierra
Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor discusses why AI is driving a fundamental shift from subscription-based pricing to outcomes-based models. Learn why this trans…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
LIVE: Sam Altman of OpenAI on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life
Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sam reflects on OpenAI’s evolution from a 14-person research lab to a dominant AI platform. He envisions transforming ChatGPT into a deeply personal AI serv…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach: Building the System of Record for the AI Era
Workday CEO and Sequoia partner Carl Eschenbach explains how the company is evolving its platform to handle both human and AI workers. He shares Workday’s three-pronged approach to monetizing AI thro…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Quest to ‘Solve All Diseases’ with AI: Isomorphic Labs’ Max Jaderberg
After pioneering reinforcement learning breakthroughs at DeepMind with Capture the Flag and AlphaStar, Max Jaderberg aims to revolutionize drug discovery with AI as Chief AI Officer of Isomorphic Lab…
Published on 5 months ago
Pricing in the AI Era: From Inputs to Outcomes, with Paid CEO Manny Medina
Former Outreach CEO Manny Medina discusses his new company Paid, which provides billing, pricing and margin management tools for AI companies. He explains why traditional SaaS pricing models don’t wo…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Arc Institute's Patrick Hsu on Building an App Store for Biology with AI
Patrick Hsu, co-founder of Arc Institute, discusses the opportunities for AI in biology beyond just drug development, and how Evo 2, their new biology foundation model, is enabling a broad ecosystem …
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Replit CEO Amjad Masad on 1 Billion Developers: A Better End State than AGI?
Amjad Masad set out more than a decade ago to pursue the dream of unleashing 1B software creators around the world. With millions of Replit users pre-ChatGPT, that vision was already becoming a reali…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Why CRM Needs an AI Revolution, with Day.ai Founder Christopher O’Donnell
Christopher O’Donnell believes the fundamental problems with CRM—incomplete data, complex workflows, siloed work products and the fear of leads falling through the cracks—can finally be solved throug…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
From Software Engineers to AI Word Artisans: Filip Kozera of Wordware
Filip Kozera sees parallels between Excel’s democratization of data analytics and Wordware’s mission to put AI development in the hands of knowledge workers. Drawing inspiration from Excel’s 750 mill…
Published on 6 months ago