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SaaS Startup Success What it Means and What it Takes

Miguel Fernandez, CEO & Co-founder of Capchase hosts a session at Startup Grind’s The Upside of Downturns Summit.



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Mastering the Mid market Lessons on Building for and Selling into Scaling Enterprises

Stevie Case, Chief Revenue Officer at Vanta hosts a session at Startup Grind’s The Upside of Downturns Summit.



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Art of Negotiating: How To Create Win Win Outcomes

Alana Beard, Founder, and CEO of Transition Play, and Hunter Hillenmeyer, Partner at Next Play sit down for a fireside chat on the Art of Negotiating at Startup Grind’s DEI Summit 2022.



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"Product Development in the Age of the Cloud" Fireside Chat with Mike Freedman & Frances Schwiep

Product + AI Summit featured content and workshops around product development and most importantly, how AI is playing an essential role in building a startup. Product leaders, CEO’s, and investors shared their thoughts on topics like this with founders and tech teams from around the world.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Mike Freedman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Timescale, as well as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Mike’s work broadly focuses on distributed systems, storage systems, networking, and security. He developed CoralCDN (a decentralized content distribution network serving millions of daily users) and Ethane (which formed the basis for the OpenFlow / software-defined networking architecture).

Frances Schwiep partners with founders who are building compelling technologies across B2B applications and infrastructure, applied AI and DataOps, FinTech, and vertical software around the future of work. She is passionate about leveraging new technologies and digital assets to redefine businesses and build new categories.

We hope you enjoy this recording of their fireside chat at Product & AI Summit 2023.



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Titan tragedy, Meta removes news in Canada + Elizabeth Yin at Angel Summit | E1767

(0:00) Elizabeth’s passion
(1:41) Jason discusses the Titan submersible tragedy and how money can lead to recklessness and toxic wealth
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(32:51) More lessons from 700+ startup investments!
(50:17) Q&A with Angel Summit audience

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IRL to shut down after faking 19M users, ZIRP fraud, Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B | E1768

(0:00) Vinny joins Jason
(1:12) IRL's 19M fake users
(5:45) Twitter bots and the fake account problem
(11:50) Notion - Try it for free today at notion.com/twist
(12:59) Diligence in early-stage startups
(20:59) Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B
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(33:09) Testing Google’s new generative search
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(38:31) Testing generative search on the most expensive steaks in Los Angeles
(41:56) Vinny's thoughts on Toxic Wealth and the Titan tragedy
(53:34) DeepMind CEO says Gemini is more capable than ChatGPT
(1:02:31) Vinny demos Colorize and Replika

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Zapier Co-Founder Mike Knoop on category creation, API evolution & AI architecture | E1769

(0:00) Mike Knoop joins Jason
(1:20) Zapier’s origin story
(8:40) Zapier’s key inflection point and its profit-sharing model
(14:05) Zapier’s business model
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(38:14) Linkedin tightening the belt on its API
(41:21) Zapier’s enterprise customers
(43:06) Reducing friction for Zapier users
(51:41) Regulating AI
(55:19) The limitations of present-day AI architecture

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