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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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Startup Grind is the most valuable startup community in the world, delivering education, connections, and opportunities to help startups and scaleups grow. Through local events, flagship global conferences, our startup membership, mentor + investor programs, and online content – Startup Grind collectively reaches over 4 million startups in 600 cities and 125 countries worldwide.

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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 SPEAKER:
Saleem is an entrepreneurial product leader and founder of Paper Plane, an advisory that helps companies leverage AI and PLG strategies. He was recently an Executive in Residence at Reforge, where he taught product and growth programs to product leaders. He also brings experience from his roles at Amazon and the CIA.

We hope you enjoy this recording of his keynote and Q&A session at Product & AI Summit 2023.

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Startup Grind is the most valuable startup community in the world, delivering education, connections, and opportunities to help startups and scaleups grow. Through local events, flagship global conferences, our startup membership, mentor + investor programs, and online content – Startup Grind collectively reaches over 4 million startups in 600 cities and 125 countries worldwide.

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(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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(50:17) Q&A with Angel Summit audience

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(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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(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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(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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Founded in 2009, Joby has been working on this electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft to make urban travel faster, quieter, and more sustainable.

Their model, the Joby S4, promises to revolutionize air mobility.

Sky showed off just how little you might here from them when they take flight, potentially changing how we get around cities in the future

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(37:15) The gentleman’s RIF and the status of remote workers.
(48:26) New air taxi plan from Archer.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show!
(2:11) Ai-generated memes.
(7:36) The butler experiences.
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(0:00) David Weisburd intros Konstantine Buhler, Ana Marshall, and Jason Calacanis
(3:04) VCs not raising new funds, market impact, and the current state of venture capital
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