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Why does AI mean everyone will become a builder?
The world going forward, there is going to be nothing that no one can build. Everyone is trying to commoditize the other. Value accrual is a time dependent phenomenon. So many of the tasks that we're doing, we don't need the very frontier to do it. We might see a short term contraction of usage of the very frontier models.
Will AI finally break the 200-year GDP growth ceiling?
I think it's pretty embarrassing that we don't have frontier open models in the United States. Name a legendary company that has a shit sales or marketing team.
What is the significance of the 100x engineer in today's tech landscape?
You can't. The age of the polymath is back.
How is token allocation becoming a new executive job role?
All right, you have a meeting with the Sequoia Partnership tomorrow morning. Be ready to present. No one else would have believed in me except him.
What are the implications of Kirkland's $500M AI bet?
We will see the best companies treat teams more and more like whatever, SEAL Team 6 or NBA, like professional athletes.
So I invested millions of dollars in the founder that we're about to meet, and I invested millions of dollars on a walk around Hyde Park after about four minutes. He was that compelling. Meet Matan Grinberg, CEO and co-founder of Factory. Before Factory, he literally never had a job.
How is the AI value war shaping the future of technology?
He was a physicist. Okay. He spent 12 years trying to be one of the best string theorists in the world. Now he's changing the world of software development. He raised money from Sequoia. The first check was a million dollars at $5 million. He just raised an incredible round at one and a half billion dollars. He works with some of the biggest enterprises in the world. He does look like Matt Damon from Goodwill hunting. So what a treat if you're watching on video, but he is one of the best founders I've met in the last year. And that's why I wanted to write him a multiple million dollar check after just five minutes.
What makes a great engineer in the age of AI agents?
But before we dive into the show today, here's a question for any founder listening. What would your marketing team do with an extra 30 hours a week? That's roughly what teams get back when they stop manually building every campaign, every workflow, every email. Right now, your best marketing people are spending their days cloning templates, configuring audience segments, and chasing data across systems. That's not what you hired them for. Conversion is the first marketing automation platform where AI agents handle the execution. Your team focuses on strategy, on messaging, and pipeline. The agents handle the rest, building campaigns, personalizing every touchpoint per account, and deciding the next best action automatically.
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Why isn't Matan worried about AI taking jobs in the long term?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does AI mean everyone will become a builder?
0:00–0:18
2
Will AI finally break the 200-year GDP growth ceiling?
0:18–0:25
3
What is the significance of the 100x engineer in today's tech landscape?
0:25–0:28
4
How is token allocation becoming a new executive job role?
0:28–0:34
5
What are the implications of Kirkland's $500M AI bet?
0:34–0:57
6
How is the AI value war shaping the future of technology?
0:57–1:32
7
What makes a great engineer in the age of AI agents?
1:32–2:37
8
Why isn't Matan worried about AI taking jobs in the long term?
2:37–1:21:23
Speakers
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