20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incum...

Eno Reyes is the co-founder and CTO of Factory, the agent-native software development platform building autonomous "Droids" for enterprise engineering teams. Factory has raised $220 million, most recently a $150 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, from investors includi ...  Show more

AGENDA: 00:00 NVIDIA Launches a Three-Deal Blitz Across the AI Stack 04:31 NVIDIA's $12BN Poolside Deal Exposes Frontier AI's Capital Wall 15:39 NVIDIA Moves to Back Mercor at $20BN and Perplexity at $30BN 26:55 OpenAI Confirms 2027 IPO as Anthropic Seizes the Lead 40:42 Hugging ...  Show more

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How will the rise of AI impact startups and entrepreneurs? Join Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell for a discussion on the opportunities and challenges AI brings for founders. Apply to Y Combinator: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_descri ...

Episode 59: Can artificial intelligence accurately predict the next billion-dollar startup? Matt Wolfe ( https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands ( https://x.com/NathanLands) are joined by Jager McConnell ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/jager/), CEO of Crunchbase and a leading product ...  Show more

Silicon Valley needs a new thing and AI is that new thing: investors are supposed to pour 43 billion dollars into AI this year. But will individual startups cash in on the boom, or will the real winners of AI be the same handful of big, established companies? Featuring: Renate Ny ...  Show more