Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social (Best of the Pod)
Most consumer AI so far has been single-player: you and a chatbot, alone.Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel, one of Pinterest's first 30 employees, is betting that's about to change. She's looking for a pr...
5 Aug 48min
Best of the Pod: Wired's Kevin Kelly on Why AI Is a 50-year Overnight Success
Kevin Kelly has spent over 30 years experiencing the edge of new technology: from the earliest days of the internet to the first years of Burning Man. But he’s always treated the frontier as a place t...
29 Juli 53min
How Every's Team Used AI to Ship Its Biggest Launch Ever
Yash Poojary, a growth engineer at Every, dropped an idea for a campaign in Slack at 7 p.m. Instead of building it himself, Every’s head of growth Austin Tedesco took a screenshot of the Slack thread,...
22 Juli 46min
The Founder of a $1.5B AI Company on What Comes After the First Wave of AI Apps
“Running a startup is a knife fight whether things are going well or not,” says Chris Pedregal, cofounder and CEO of Granola. Granola recently raised a $125 million series C round at a $1.5 billion va...
15 Juli 59min
Building a School Where AI Models Learn About Humanity
If scaling laws hold—and Surge AI CEO Edwin Chen believes they do—we’re hurtling toward a future where there’s nothing humans can do that AI can’t do better. When OpenAI’s models disproved an open con...
24 Juni 43min
GitHub’s COO Explains Why AI Hasn’t Replaced Developers
Last year, there were 1 billion commits on GitHub. This year, Kyle Daigle expects that number to exceed 14 billion, a two-component explosion caused by more humans—and their agents—issuing pull reques...
17 Juni 28min
How Anthropic Uses Claude Fable 5 With Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as the cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of AI-native product development as head of Anthropic La...
10 Juni 52min
The SaaS Apocalypse Is a Goldmine With Figma’s Matt Colyer
The "SaaSpocalypse"—the panic that AI will make software-as-a-service obsolete—hasn't rattled Figma’s Matt Colyer. As the company’s director of product management for developers, he's been building hi...
3 Juni 33min
