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The future of tech is 25-person companies powered by AI agents that help us accomplish our larger goals. Imbue is working on building AI agents that reason, code and generally make our lives easier. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with co-founders Kanjun Qiu (CEO) and Josh Albrecht (CTO) to discuss how they define reasoning, the spectrum of specialized and generalized agents, and the path to improved agent performance. Plus, what’s behind their $200M Series B fundraise. Kanjun Qiu is the CEO and co-founder of Imbue. Kanjun is also a partner at angel fund Outset Capital, where she invests in promising pre-seed companies. Previously, Kanjun was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup backed by YC and DFJ. She was previously Chief of Staff to Drew Houston at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company from 300 employees to 1200. Josh Albrecht is the CTO and co-founder of Imbue. He also invests in other founders via his fund, Outset Capital. He has published machine learning papers as an academic researcher; founded an AI recruiting company that went through YC and a 3D injection molding software company that was acquired; helped build Addepar as an early engineer; and served as a Thiel Fellow mentor. He started programming as a kid and began working professionally as a software engineer in high school. Show Links: Kanjun’s LinkedIn | Website | Google Scholar Josh’s LinkedIn | Website | Google Scholar Imbue raises $200M to build AI systems that can reason and code Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Kanjun | @JoshAlbrecht Show Notes: (00:00) - Introduction to Imbue (04:55) - The Spectrum of Agent Tasks (08:43) - Specialization and Generalization With Agents (13:03) - Code and Language in AI Agents

Open Source fuels the engine of innovation, according to Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI. Mistral is a French AI company which recently made a splash with releasing Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date, and outperforming much larger models. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Arthur to discuss why open source could win the AI wars, their $100M+ seed financing, the true nature of scaling laws, why he started his company in France, and what Mistral is building next. Arthur Mensch is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Mistral AI. A graduate of École Polytechnique, Télécom Paris and holder of the Master Mathématiques Vision Apprentissage at Paris Saclay, he completed his thesis in machine learning for functional brain imaging at Inria (Parietal team). He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Applied Mathematics department at ENS Ulm, where he carried out work in mathematics for optimization and machine learning. In 2020, he joined DeepMind as a researcher, working on large language models, before leaving in 2023 to co-found Mistral AI with Guillaume Lample and Timothee Lacroix. Show Links: Arthur’s Linkedin Mistral Mistral 7b Retro: Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens Chinchilla: Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @ArthurMensch Show Notes: (0:00) - Why he co-founded Mistral (4:22) - Chinchilla and Proportionality (6:16) - Mistral 7b (9:17) - Data and Annotations (10:33) - Open Source Ecosystem (17:36) - Proposed Compute and Scale Limits (19:58) - Threat of Bioweapons (23:08) - Guardrails and Safety (29:46) - Mistral Platform (31:31) - French and European AI Startups

Each iteration of ChatGPT has demonstrated remarkable step function capabilities. But what’s next? Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at OpenAI, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the origins of OpenAI as a capped profit company, early emergent behaviors of GPT models, the token scarcity issue, next frontiers of AI research, his argument for working on AI safety now, and the premise of Superalignment. Plus, how do we define digital life? Ilya Sutskever is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the architects behind the GPT models. He co-leads OpenAI's new "Superalignment" project, which tries to solve the alignment of superintelligences in 4 years. Prior to OpenAI, Ilya was co-inventor of AlexNet and Sequence to Sequence Learning. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Show Links: Ilya Sutskever | LinkedIn Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @ilyasut Show Notes: (00:00) - Early Days of AI Research (06:51) - Origins of Open Ai & CapProfit Structure (13:46) - Emergent Behaviors of GPT Models (17:55) - Model Scale Over Time & Reliability (22:23) - Roles & Boundaries of Open-Source in the AI Ecosystem (28:22) - Comparing AI Systems to Biological & Human Intelligence (30:52) - Definition of Digital Life (32:59) - Super Alignment & Creating Pro Human AI (39:01) - Accelerating & Decelerating Forces

Cyber Security is going to change significantly in the era of AI, according to Ryan Noon, cofounder of Material Security, a security company that makes cloud-based Google and Microsoft email a safe place for sensitive data. Elad Gil and Ryan talk about how Material Security started to use LLMs, potential security threats from AI hacks, and the role of the government in securing the Internet. Ryan also shares his advice for founders. Ryan co-founded Material Security in 2017 after seeing high profile email hacks in the 2016 Presidential election. Previously, he led various engineering teams at Dropbox after it acquired his first company, Parastructure. Prior to Parastructure, he led engineering at a data analysis company spun out of Stanford by DARPA. He holds both an MS in Computer Networks and Security and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford. Show Links: Ryan Noon LinkedIn Material Security Website The Market for Silver Bullets by Ian Grigg Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @InternetMeme Show Notes: (00:00) - How 2016 Election Hacking Inspired Ryan to Start Material Security (05:00) - Generative AI Use Cases in Cyber Security & Fine Tuning (11:36) - Predictions on Effective Threat Levels from AI Hacks (14:45) - Democracy, the Department of Defence, DARPA and Cyber Security (20:14) - Is there room for startups in the Cyber Security industry? (26:40) - New Challenges On Horizon After 7 Years as Cofounder (32:30) - Advice to Founders

As the Lead for Generative AI in the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud, Kawal Gandhi has a unique vantage point on enterprise AI rollout. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Gandhi this week to discuss his insights on how enterprises can effectively invest in AI development, the importance of TPUs, and Google’s internal AI applications. Plus, when will email get more intelligent? Kawal Gandhi has worked at Google for nearly a decade in search and ad roles before focusing on the development and marketing of AI tools. Show Links: Kawal Gandhi | LinkedIn Google Cloud  Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @geeztweets Show Notes: (00:00) - Generative AI in Google Cloud (09:05) - AI Adoption in the Enterprise (13:31) - Multi-Modal AI Models (16:19) - AI Adoption, return-on-investment, anti-patterns (24:43) - Google's TPU and NVIDIA GPU shortage (31:00) - Data Marketplace and Model Training

Startups aren't the only companies racing to build the new world of AI. This week, Sarah Guo talks with Brian Halligan, the co-founder, longtime CEO and now executive chairperson of HubSpot, the fastest growing CRM. He talks about category creation, coining the term ‘inbound marketing,’ lessons in scaling from an app to a suite to a platform, staying innovative at scale, and how they're navigating the AI disruption. Brian also describes the life-threatening moment he decided to step back from the CEO role. Plus, what he’s up to at Propeller Ventures and why he’s banking on the ocean to save us from climate change. Brian coined the term "inbound marketing" and together with Dharmesh Shah built a movement around the concept, which included organizing the industry-leading INBOUND event and co-authoring the book Inbound Marketing. Now, as the founder of Propeller Ventures, Brian directs a $100 million climate tech venture fund, specializing in ocean investments. He also serves on the boards of Navier and Aquatic Labs. Brian developed MIT’s popular Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures class, which he’s taught for over a decade. Show Links: Brian Halligan | LinkedIn Propeller VC WHOI Partnership HubSpot Culture Code Read his books: Inbound Marketing and Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil |@BHalligan Show Notes: (0:00:00) - HubSpot's Journey from Unlikely Startup to Industry Incumbent (0:05:32) - The End of Cold Calling (and the Birth of Inbound) (0:16:40) - Building a Multi-Product Company (0:22:07) - How to Stay Innovative and Hungry after Going Public (0:29:12) - AI Workflows in CRM and the Incumbent Data Advantage (0:36:09) - Creating a Culture Code for HubSpot (0:40:24) - Propeller Venture Fund, Ours Oceans and Climate Investing

What Does it Take to Improve by 10x or 100x? This week is another host-only episode. Sarah and Elad talk about the path to better model quality, the potential for fine tuning to different use cases, retrieval systems (RAG), feedback systems (RLHF, RLAIF) and Meta’s sponsorship of the open source model ecosystem. Plus Sarah and Elad ask if we’re finally at the beginning of a new set of consumer applications and social networks. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil Show Notes: 0:03:00 - AI Models and Open AI Advances 0:08:59 - Addressing Hallucinations in AI Models 0:13:22 - Open Source Models in Consumer Engagement 0:16:23 - New Trends in Social Content Creation 0:21:53 - Balancing Ambition With Realistic Customer Expectations

Ginkgo Bioworks is using DNA as code to digitize the cell programming revolution. Ginkgo is using AI and synthetic biology to keep the next pandemic at bay, and accelerate our production capabilities for medicine, food, and agriculture. Ginkgo’s co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss bioengineering protein as a foundational model, specialized data learning from an evolutionary perspective, what we need to prepare for a future pandemic, and more. Jason has served as a member of our board of directors since Ginkgo’s founding in 2008. He has also served as a director of CM Life Sciences II Inc. (Nasdaq: CMII), a special purpose acquisition company with a focus on the life sciences sector, since its initial public offering in February 2021. Jason holds a Ph.D. in Biological Engineering and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Show Links: Jason Kelly - Co-founder & CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks | LinkedIn Ginkgo Bioworks The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @jrkelly Show Notes: (0:00:00) - The Difference Between Software Engineering and Biological Engineering (0:06:51) - Abstractions and Infrastructure in Synthetic Bio (0:09:23) - The Role of AI, Foundation Models that Speak Biology (0:13:17) - AWS for Cell Engineering (0:17:52) - Where are the AI-discovered Drugs? And Data at Gingko (0:19:12) - Pandemic Response and Biosecurity in the Age of AI (0:22:47) - The Likelihood of Existential AI Risk from Lone Actors Harnessing Viruses, and The Need for Defense-in-Depth (0:31:47) - Will Progress in AI Be Biologically Inspired? And Evolution

Replit’s develop-to-deploy platform and new AI tool, Ghostwriter, are breaking down the barriers to entry for beginner programmers. Replit’s CEO, co-founder, and head engineer Amjad Masad joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss how AI can change software engineering, the infrastructure we still need, open source foundation models, and what to expect from AI agents. Before co-founding Replit, Amjad Masad worked at Facebook as a software engineer, where he worked on infrastructure tooling. He was a founding engineer at CodeAcademy. Throughout his career, Masad has been an advocate for open-source software. Show Links: Amjad Masad - CEO & Co-founder of Replit | LinkedIn Replit Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @amasad Show Links: Amjad Masad - CEO & Co-founder of Replit | LinkedIn Replit Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @amasad Show Notes: 0:03:55 - Impact of AI on Code Generation 0:11:09 - Breaking Down Barriers to Entry in Development with Replit 0:14:35 - The Impact of Open Source Models, Meta/Llama 0:20:32 - Bounties, Agents who Make Money 0:24:26 - The Missing Data Spec-to-Code 0:32:29 - Building the Future of AI, Money as a Programmable Primitive

More than 25 million users are using NEAR-powered applications. Co-founder of NEAR protocol and Transformers author Illia Polosukhin joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the intersections of crypto and AI technology, what we should expect from AI agents, decentralized data labeling, why AI’s alignment problem is really a human problem, and more. Show Links: Illia Polosukhin - Co-founder of NEAR | LinkedIn NEAR Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @ilblackdragon Show Notes: (0:00:00) - Blockchain, AI, and Web3 Intersection (0:06:39) - How We Might Combine Blockchain and AI for Cancer Research (0:23:35) - Inference and Decentralized Data Labeling (0:30:13) - AI SaaS Strategic Challenges (0:38:18) - The Future of Hardware Accelerators

The GPU supply crunch is causing desperation amongst AI teams large and small. Cerebras Systems has an answer, and it’s a chip the size of a dinner plate. Andrew Feldman, CEO and Co-founder of Cerebras and previously SeaMicro, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. They discuss why there might be an alternative to Nvidia, localized models and predictions for the accelerator market. Show Links: Andrew Feldman - Cerebras CEO & Co-founder | LinkedIn Cerebras Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @andrewdfeldman Show Notes: (0:00:00) - Cerebra Systems CEO Discusses AI Supercomputers (0:07:03) - AI Advancement in Architecture and Training (0:16:58) - Future of AI Accelerators and Chip Specialization (0:26:38) - Scaling Open Source Models and Fine-Tuning

Everything digital is increasingly intermediated through web user experiences, and now AI development can be frontend-first, too. Just ask Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, the company behind Next.js. In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil speak to Guillermo about their AI SDK and AI templates, and why Vercel is focused on making it easy for every frontend engineer to build with AI. They also discuss what applications Guillermo's most excited about, how to prepare for the world of bots, whether the winds are changing in web architectures, and why he believes in the AI-fueled 100X engineer. Prior to Vercel, Guillermo co-founded several startups and created the JavaScript library, Socket.io, which allows for real-time bi-directional communication between web clients and servers. Show Links: Guillermo Rauch - CEO & Founder of Vercel | LinkedIn Vercel Vercel AI Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @rauchg Show Notes: (0:00:00) - Vercel's AI Strategy and Future Plans (0:10:36) - AI Frameworks, Observability, and Bot Mitigation (0:17:24) - Crawling the Web and Architecture Changes (0:27:54) - AI's Impact on Web Personalization

"Biological Software" is the future of medicine. Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-founder of Inceptive, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors, to discuss how deep learning is expanding the horizons of RNA and mRNA therapeutics. Jakob co-authored the revolutionary paper Attention is All You Need while at Google, and led early Google Translate and Google Assistant teams. Now at Inceptive, he's applying these same architectures and ideas to biological design, optimizing vaccine production, and magnitude-more efficient drug discovery. We also discuss Jakob's perspective on promising research directions, and his point of view that model architectures will actually get simpler from here, and be driven by hardware. Show Links: Inceptive - CEO & Founder - Jakob Uszkoreit | LinkedIn Inceptive Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @kyosu Show Notes: (0:00:00) - Creating Biological Software (0:06:54) - The Hardware Drivers of Large-Scale Transformers (0:14:32) - Challenges in Optimizing Compute Allocation (0:23:25) - Deep Learning in Biology and RNA (0:32:49) - The Future of Drug Discovery (0:41:41) - Collaboration and Innovation at Inceptive

The future of education is right at your children’s fingertips. Sal Khan, CEO and Founder of Khan Academy, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. For over a decade, Sal Khan has been trying to reform education, beginning with tutoring his cousins in math. He's the father of the YouTube "chalk talk" format, and has now served tens of millions of students through Khan Academy. He guides us through how Khan Academy is using AI to personalize a student's educational experience, transporting students into immersive learning experiences that allow them to debate historical figures, to assisting teachers with lesson plans that address the learning gaps keeping students from reaching their full potential, to a Khanmigo, a tutor for every child. Prior to founding Khan Academy, Sal worked as a hedge fund analyst. He holds an MS in business from Harvard University, as well as an MS in Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from MIT. Show Links: Khan Academy - CEO & Founder - Khan Academy | LinkedIn Khan Academy Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @salkhanacademy Show Notes: [0:00:06] - Sal Khan's Journey [0:08:41] - Mastery Learning and AI in Education [0:19:53] - Future of AI Tutors in Education [0:23:10] - Education's Future With Generative AI [0:29:35] - Connecting Learning Through Tutoring and Collaboration [0:33:22] - Implications of GPT 4 on Education [0:40:42] - Future of Education and Job Skills [0:46:47] - Importance of Traditional Skills in Education

This week on the podcast, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil answer listener questions on the state of technology and artificial intelligence. Sarah and Elad also talk about the 2024 tech market, what type of companies may reach their highest valuation ever and the (former) unicorns that may go bust. Plus, how do Sarah and Elad define happiness? Hint: it’s a use case for a specialized AI agent. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil Show Links: Cerebras Systems signs $100 million AI supercomputer deal with UAE's G42 | Reuters Our World in Data Show Notes: [0:00:37] - Impact of GPU Bottleneck in the near and long term [0:10:30] - Timeline for existing incumbent enterprises to use AI in products [0:11:50] - Vertical versus broad applications for AI Agents [0:19:33] - 2024 tech market predictions & how founders should think about valuations

How are ML developer tools helping to advance our capabilities? Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights & Biases, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. Lukas explores the impact of ML in various industries like gaming, AgTech, and fintech through his insightful perspective. He discusses the impact of LLMs, puts them in context of the evolution of ML engineering over the past decade and a half, and tells the backstory of Weights & Biases' success. He gives advice for aspiring AI company founders, placing emphasis on customer feedback and using insecurity as a vehicle for better customer discovery. Prior to founding Weights & Biases, Lukas attacked the problem of data collection for model training as the Founder of Figure Eight, which he sold in 2019. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University. Show Links: Lukas Biewald - CEO & Co-founder - Weights & Biases | LinkedIn Weights & Biases Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @l2k Show Notes: [0:00:00] - Lucas Wald's Journey in AI [0:08:16] - Startup Evolution and Machine Learning [0:18:54] - Open Source Models Implications and Adoption [0:29:54] - ML Impact in Various Industries [0:40:27] - Advice for AI Company Founders

Can frontiers as high-stakes as next-generation, AI-enabled defense depend on something as mundane as data integration? Can "large language models" work in such mission critical applications? In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Shyam Sankar, the Chief Technical Officer of Palantir Technologies and inventor of their famous Forward Deployed Engineering force. Early employee and longtime leader Shyam explains the evolution of technology at Palantir, from ontology and data integration to process visualization and now AI. He describes how a company of Palantir's scale has adopted foundation models and shares customer stories. They discuss the case for open source AI models fine-tuned on private, domain-specific data, and the challenges of anchoring AI models in reality. Show Links: Shyam Sankar - Chief Technical Officer - Palantir Technologies | LinkedIn Palantir Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @ssankar Show Notes: [0:00:00] - Palantir's CTO Discusses Company's Background [0:10:17] - Apollo and AIP [0:20:25] - Future of UI and Application Integration [0:28:29] - Investment in Co-Pilot Models and Education [0:31:22] - Exploring AI Implementation in Various Industries [0:38:19] - Operational and Analytical Workflows in Context

Video dominates modern media consumption, but video creation is still expensive and difficult. AI-generated and edited video is a holy grail of democratized creative expression. This week on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Devi Parikh. She is a Research Director in Generative AI at Meta and an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her work focuses on multimodality and AI for images, audio and video. Recently, she worked on Make a Video 3D, also called MAV3D, which creates animations from text prompts. She is also a talented AI-generated and analog artist herself. Elad, Sarah and Devi talk about what’s exciting in computer vision, what’s blocking researchers from fully immersive Generative 4-D, and AI controllability. No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode. Show Links: Devi Parikh - Google Scholar Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation named MAV3D (Make-A-Video3D) Full Research Paper Website with examples of image to 4 D generation Devi’s Substack Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @DeviParikh Show Notes: (0:00:06) - Democratizing Creative Expression With AI-Generated Video (0:08:31) - Challenges in Video Generation Research (0:15:57) - Challenges and Implications of Video Processing (0:20:43) - Control and Multi-Modal Inputs in Video (0:25:50) - Audio's Role in Visual Content (0:39:00) - Don't Self-Select & Devi’s tips for young researchers

Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake Computing, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. Before scaling Snowflake to its blockbuster IPO and beyond, Frank was also the CEO from early to scale for landmark enterprise companies ServiceNow and Data Domain. Frank grew up in the Netherlands and is also the author of three books: Amp It Up, Rise of the Data Cloud, and Tape Sucks. In this episode, our hosts talk with Frank about the opportunity for generative AI in the enterprise, why Snowflake isn't really a data warehousing company, their acquisitions of Neeva and Streamlit, apps within Snowflake, and how AI relates to traditional analytics and BI. He also talks about his personal journey, why it's always a good time to do performance management, and why most leaders struggle to raise the bar for performance. ** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode. Show Links: Forbes: How CEO-For-Hire Frank Slootman Turned Snowflake Into Software’s Biggest-Ever IPO Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity Rise of the Data Cloud (Audible Audio Edition): Frank Slootman, Steve Hamm, Zach Hoffman, Snowflake: Books TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story eBook : Slootman, Frank: Kindle Store Frank Slootman’s LinkedIn Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @SnowflakeDB Show Notes: [00:06] - Frank’s Insights on Career Success as a three-time CEO [12:42] - The message of his book Amp It Up [25:01] - Future of Natural Language and Data [36:29] - Data Management and Industry Transformation Future [45:13] - Managing Resources in Changing Economic Environment [50:09] - Amping Up Energy and Intensity Amid Economic Headwinds

Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, shares her personal journey from growing up in France, to leading the Facebook app, to becoming a wartime CEO. Fidji talks about the future of Instacart, their AI strategy, how the current era of AI is different from prior ML waves, and the impact of LLMs in commerce, robotics and healthcare. She also shares how she earns followership from her teams. ** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode. Show Links: May 31, 2023: Instacart users can now plan meals using AI - Fast Company Profile May 13, 2023: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo makes groceries personal. Now she’s doing the same for women’s health December 2, 2021: Rapid Response: Re-founding Instacart, w/ first-time CEO Fidji Simo | Podcast: Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman Metrodora Institute Fidji Simo’s LinkedIn Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Fidjissimo Show Notes: [00:01] - Leading With Impact and Authenticity [11:48] - Implementing AI [17:28] - Future of Grocery Shopping With AI [25:38] - AI in Advertising and Commerce [32:54] - Metrodora: AI in Biotech and Healthcare [34:18] - The positive impact of AI, mitigating harm & role of regulations