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In a new episode of My First 16, CFI partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Pilot Waseem Daher on how he thought about the importance of charging, how secondary signals often matter in an area like accounting, and never...

Sales wants more features. Product gets bogged down with one-off requests. Progress and growth grinds to a halt. It's a familiar story. How Segment turned the sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B acquisition, as told by the...

In a new episode of My First 16, CFI partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a “minimum delightful product” in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on,...

As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Here she tells Martin Casado the story behind the release of ChatGPT—and what it tells us about the future of AI and human-machine...

Noam Shazeer, Character.ai CEO and cofounder, talks to CFI 's Sarah Wang about the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, the compute it will take to power it, and his pursuit of AGI's first use...[0:59] Real Noam vs. AI...

Ali Ghodsi, CEO and cofounder of Databricks, and Ben Horowitz, cofounder of CFI , explain the data wars happening inside and outside enterprises and how they could impact the evolution of LLMs. [0:59] Why is it so hard for...

Daphne Koller is the founder and CEO of insitro, a company using AI and machine learning to engineer drug discovery. In this conversation with CFI 's Vijay Pande, she discusses how an LLM for cells could revolutionize drug discovery...

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with CFI 's Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge...

Cofounder and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei unpacks how far can scaling laws take us and how can AI be used to improve AI, in conversation with CFI 's Anjney Midha. [0:59] Dario's background[2:45] GPT-2's emergent capabilities[5:16]...

Will AI take all the design jobs? Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with CFI 's David George. [0:58] Will AI replace designers?[4:13] Human vs. AI...

Roblox cofounder and CEO David Baszucki and CFI 's Jonathan Lai discuss the ways AI is changing games and virtual worlds, as well as how we create them. [1:00] Generative AI in games[4:56] Fully personalized playthroughs[7:50]...

CFI founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen and Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel are interviewed by CFI General Partner Sriram Krishnan at the “Time to Build: LA” event during LA Week. The trio chat about the future of content...

In this episode of CFI Live, David Banks, a former Riot Games executive who's now the co-founder and CEO of Elodie Games, and Timmu Tõke, the co-founder and CEO of Ready Player Me, a leading platform for cross game avatars, join...

In this episode of CFI Live, Chris Power, the Founder and CEO of the precision parts manufacturing company, Hadrian, talks with CFI American Dynamism Partner Oliver Hsu, about why he decided to build his factories in LA, why...

In this episode of CFI Live, Grant LaFontaine, the co-founder and CEO of the livestream shopping platform Whatnot, talks with CFI General Partner Connie Chan about building the company, his experience as the site's first person to...

To celebrate the L.A. community and the city's growth, CFI recently hosted, "Time to Build Los Angeles," an event where we invited L.A.-based investors, founders, and operators from across a diverse range of industries to talk about...

In this episode of CFI Live, we are joined by Titan Invest co-founder and co-CEO Clayton Gardner; CFI General Partner Anish Acharya; and CFI growth partner, Alex Immerman. The trio starts their conversation by diving into the...

Ben Horowitz discusses the leadership styles of Intel’s Andy Grove and Apple’s Bill Campbell, how Okta won its market with culture, and how to look for and hire the talent you don’t have in an interview with David Weiden,...

The API economy and a Cambrian explosion of apps are transforming best-in-class tech from monolithic tools to a stack of 20 applications that work together. Amid this unbundling, partnerships have become a critical part of early...

CFI neral Partner David Haber chats with his former colleague Stephanie Cohen, Goldman Sachs' Global Co-Head of Consumer and Wealth Management, about her journey from being an investment banker to running a global division, how...

As the deputy director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Nitin Natarajan spends most of his days worrying about everything from risk identification and mitigation, to educating young people and small...

Katherine Boyle, General Partner at CFI is joined by Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power, Packy McCormick, founder of Not Boring, and CFI co-founder Marc Andreessen to discuss the opportunity to automate and upskill in the...

An excerpt from a Clubhouse conversation, where Marc interviews Ken Griffin, CEO and founder of Citadel, on GameStop one year later and why the stock price hasn't crashed, as well as about his winning bid for the Constitution in the...

What are you doing with real world data? [1:39]How valuable is real world data? [7:24]How and where do we need shared data infrastructure? [16:37]Can real world data be used for clinical decision support? [20:40]Are diagnostic...

Who is your "B" and who is your "C"? [2:02]Why did they choose B2C2B? [6:36]How did they craft their enterprise story? [11:42]Does going B2C2B increase CAC (customer acquisition costs)? [16:56]Three things to build an enterprise story...

This is an excerpt from the CFI Clubhouse show One on One with A and Z, where CFI cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz answer questions on tech trends, company building, and more. To catch full live episodes of the show,...

Indra didn't plan her career -- and that was a good thing [2:15]The personal tradeoffs of professional success [4:24]Deciding between a job at GE and PepsiCo [7:27]Rising up the ranks of PepsiCo [12:13]Transitioning PepsiCo to...

This is an excerpt from the CFI Clubhouse show One on One with A and Z, where CFI cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz answer questions on tech trends, company building, and more. To catch full live episodes of the show,...

The early days of Zimrides [2:08]Driving early virality [7:56]Competing with Uber [15:47]Why they took political stances [27:03]Managing through the pandemic [38:09]The future focus for Lyft -- autonomous vehicles and the end of car...

An overview of diabetes Type 1 and Type 2 [2:58]Thinking beyond Type 1 and Type 2 [6:58]New treatment options: stem cells, continuous glucose monitoring [14:19]What's the timeline on stem cell therapies? [17:15]Therapies for...

Founding story of Nautilus [1:43]Why was the Nautilus approach to proteomics a breakthrough? [6:12]Why a startup instead of academic research? [9:57]How to pick a good cofounder (it's not that different from choosing a spouse)...

This is an excerpt from the CFI Clubhouse show One on One with A and Z, where CFI cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz answer questions on tech trends, company building, and more live . To catch full episodes of the show,...

The MSCI origin story [1:07]How does an index get constructed? [6:51]How do you keep an index accurate? [11:42]MSCI business model... how do they get paid? [16:27]MSCI, competition, and why not an open source index? [23:14]ESG and...

SPEAKERS:Aarthi Ramamurthy, international, ClubhouseDonnie Dinch, founder and CEO, BitskiGabby Dizon, cofounder, Yield Guild GamesJarrod Dicker, operating partner, TCGJesse Walden, founder, Variant FundJon Lai, principal, CFI Packy...

This conversation centers on the arguments and findings of the CFI piece The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox. The Core Findings of The Cost of Cloud piece [5:22]Cloud is a significant part of COGS for public SaaS companies...

This podcast is an excerpt. Follow the CFI Club to join conversations with tech founders, builders, and leaders live and in-full.Early days of CFI crypto [2:38]New crypto governance capabilities [16:34]How is the VC model different...

What makes a category? [0:37]The leading indicator? Everyone thinks you're crazy. [5:36]Can you create a category whole cloth? [7:02]How to create a category [12:05]The best category creation CEOs are product marketers [15:55]Category...

SPEAKERS (in order they are heard in the episode):Shannon Kelly, CFI Connie Chan, CFI Brandon Chu, VP Product and GM  of Platform, ShopifyD'Arcy Coolican, CFI Nait Jones, CFI Jess Lee, Cofounder and CEO, Modern CitizenImran Khan,...

The origins of growth hacking [1:20]Brand building vs. growth hacking? [13:58]Where does growth fit into the organization?  [31:06]The cold start problem: growth hacking from 0 to 1 [36:47]What can't be measured? [47:53]How do you...

Why  Future with Marc Andreessen, Margit Wennmachers, and Sonal Chokshi [2:20]The New Creator Economy with Joost van Dreunen, Wes Kao, Cuy Sheffield, Chris Lyons, Lauren Murrow, and Zoran Basich [17:58]Bubbles, Speculation, and...