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S5 · E14
Sunday · 55 min
IVP GP: Inside Perplexity, Dropbox, Abridge & Glean!
Exclusive: Somesh Dash, General Partner at IVP, joins us to discuss the future of AI and Venture Capital. Somesh has backed some of the world's most transformative technology companies, including Dropbox, Discord, Anthropic, Rubrik, Glean, Abridge, and Perplexity, while working alongside extraordinary founders and witnessing the evolution of Silicon Valley. Now, as AI fundamentally reshapes how companies are built, scaled, and defended, Somesh believes the rules of entrepreneurship are changing faster than ever. And some of his predictions might surprise you. Topics We Covered: • Why Somesh believes traditional product-market fit may no longer exist in the age of AI • The story behind IVP's investments in Glean, Abridge and Dropbox, and what convinced Somesh to back their founders • Why he believes Perplexity could become a trillion-dollar company, and what most people misunderstand about its potential • How AI is reshaping the future of venture capital, from funding smaller teams to the rising costs of scaling startups • How IVP passed on investing in Facebook at a $500 million pre-money valuation, and the lessons Somesh learned from one of the biggest missed opportunities in venture capital • How AI startups can build sustainable competitive advantages when OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier model companies could become their competitors • What Somesh learned from investing in Dropbox, and why its influence extends far beyond the company itself • Why Somesh believes traditional education remains valuable even when AI makes information accessible to everyone • How Somesh's family history in India's independence movement shaped his worldview and his childhood ambition to become a diplomat And Guess What Somesh's Favorite TV Shows Are? 🕵️‍♂️🌍💰 Host: Yossi Garmazi #VentureCapital #Startups #Investing #Perplexity #Dropbox #Abridge #Glean #IVP Chapters: 00:00 No more Product Market-fit 00:26 Intro 01:08 Heuristics When Meeting Entrepreneurs 04:03 Surprises When Investing 05:27 Having a Moat in AI Era 09:38 Future of Education 12:42 Entrepreneurs in AI Era 16:18 Competition with Frontier Models 21:06 Glean Investment & Working with Arvind Jain 24:33 Abridge Investment & Working with Dr. Shiv Rao 29:17 Dropbox Investment & Working with Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi 34:36 The Future of Venture Cpaital 37:05 IVP Investing Approach & Facebook Investment Story 41:46 Perplexity Investment & Working with Aravind Srinivas 44:04 Somesh' Diplomat Dream & Family Background 47:40 Mentorship 49:37 Coffee Question 51:43 Favorite Sports Team 53:30 Favorite Movie & TV Series
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November 1 · 47 min
Bedrock Robotics CEO: From Waymo to Autonomous Construction!
Exclusive: Bedrock Robotics just raised a $600 million at a staggering $4.1 billion valuation, and its Co-Founder & CEO, Boris Sofman, joins us for a fascinating conversation about the future of autonomous construction, Physical AI, and robotics. From building consumer robots at Anki to developing autonomous cars at Waymo, Boris has spent his career pushing the boundaries of AI & robotics. Now, he's bringing that experience to one of the world's largest and least automated industries: construction. And his vision goes far beyond individual autonomous machines. Topics We Covered:• How Bedrock Robotics can transform existing $600,000 construction machines into autonomous equipment in just 2.5 hours • Why autonomous construction could fundamentally change how infrastructure, data centers, and other major projects are built • Why Boris believes autonomous construction will expand the industry's capacity rather than replace human workers • Why you can't simply put ChatGPT or Claude into a robot and expect it to operate autonomously • How Bedrock develops proprietary AI models using real-world data, simulation, and lessons learned at Waymo • What Boris learned from building consumer robots at Anki and developing autonomous technology at Waymo • Why Boris believes humanoid robots will succeed in industrial applications long before becoming common in our homes • How AI agents are changing cybersecurity and why Boris believes defensive AI will become increasingly important • How immigrating from the Soviet Union to America shaped Boris's perspective on entrepreneurship, risk, and uncertainty • How videos games influenced his career and his AI perspective And Guess What Boris's All-Time Favorite Movie Is? 🚀🌌🪐 Host: Yossi Garmazi Register to our Newsletter:https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website:https://www.boardroomclub.net #Robotics #Construction #autonomous #AI #machinelearning #waymo Chapters: 00:00 Bedrock Vision 00:32 Intro 01:12 Building Consumer Robotics at Anki 07:01 Waymo Car 07:34 From Waymo to Bedrock Robotics 11:18 Retrofit Approach at Bedrock vs Waymo Approach 14:08 Bedrock: Intelligence & Proprietary data 16:08 Getting Data & Physical Sites 17:32 Bedrock Moat 20:35 Building Only Software in the AI era? 23:06 Raising $600M at $4.1B - What's next? 24:53 Stock Market & Chocolate 25:56 From Pilots to Paying Customers & Deployment 29:04 Bedrock: One AI Fleet 32:13 Construction Projects AI Upside 32:48 The Future of Humanoid Robots 35:25 Rouge Agents 37:25 From the Soviet Union to America 38:58 Video Games Influence on Boris 41:35 Computer Science & Genetics 43:12 Mentorship 44:42 Coffee Question 45:46 Favorite Movie: Making Interstellar
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October 25 · 35 min
The Untold Story of HubSpot! | HubSpot Fmr President & COO
Exclusive: JD Sherman, Former President & COO of HubSpot joins us to discuss how HubSpot scaled from roughly $20 million to over $1 billion in revenue! During his nearly decade-long tenure, JD helped lead HubSpot through its IPO, scaling the organization from approximately 200 to over 4,000 employees and transforming it into one of the world's leading software companies. But the journey was far from smooth. During an early fundraising meeting, legendary investor Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) turned to HubSpot co-founder & CEO Brian Halligan and asked: “Why did you hire this guy?” a16z ultimately pulled out of the funding round because it believed hiring JD as COO would slow HubSpot down. JD took it personally. “I'm going to prove these guys wrong.” The rest is History! Topics We Covered: • What JD had to unlearn after spending 15 years at IBM and serving as CFO of Akamai before joining and scaling HubSpot • Why JD describes HubSpot's journey as a series of near catastrophes narrowly averted • How HubSpot built a culture that encouraged autonomy, experimentation, and rapid recovery from mistakes • How a major platform migration caused customers to revolt, churn to spike, and HubSpot to rethink customer success • How HubSpot's agency partner ecosystem helped agencies transition from project-based work to recurring revenue businesses • How HubSpot's shift toward product-led growth and its introduction of a free product helped reaccelerate revenue growth • Why HubSpot prioritized inbound marketing over outbound sales, and how AI is changing the future of personalized customer outreach • How introducing a free version of HubSpot and shifting toward product-led growth helped reaccelerate revenue growth • Why leaders should focus on decisions that are both consequential and difficult to reverse rather than micromanaging employees And Guess What JD Would Have Become If He Hadn't Pursued a Career in Tech? 🐟🏔️🏕️ Hosts: Yossi Garmazi & Amado Vargas Register to our Newsletter:https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website:https://www.boardroomclub.net #ai #SaaS #Startup #GTM #Sales #Entrepreneurship #crm #vc #BenHorowitz Chapters: 00:00 The a16z Meeting 01:00 Intro 01:56 From IBM & Akamai to HubSpot 03:27 The Hard Things about Hard things 05:51 A Series of Nearly Catastrophes 08:09 HubSpot Customer Success 10:28 From Missionaries to Mercenaries 12:53 Lessons From Becoming a Public Company 14:56 Public Company: Easier to Get Customers? 15:58 From Inbound to Outbound 18:10 Outbound in the AI Era 19:39 Maintaining Culture when Scaling 22:46 Friction Between Sales & Marketing 25:05 Tokenmaxxing Future 26:34 HubSpot Agency Partner Model 28:31 Genie Question 28:48 Mentorship 32:04 Coffee Question 33:06 Hobbies: Flyfishing 33:34 Favorite Movie
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October 18 · 38 min
Databricks CRO: How We Built A $190B AI Giant!
Exclusive: Ron Gabrisko, Founding CRO of Databricks joins us to discuss how Databricks scaled from less than $1 Million to over $7 Billion in Revenue run rate, how AI is transforming enterprise sales, and what it takes to build a world-class go-to-market organization. Databricks just raised a whopping $5 billion at a staggering $190 billion valuation, cementing its position as one of the world's most valuable private technology companies. They are backed by legendary investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, Coatue Management, Blackstone and others. But the story started very differently. When Ron joined the company, it had less than $1 million in revenue and seven founders with a groundbreaking technology that had yet to be fully commercialized. “Ben Horowitz from a16z told me, ‘It's smaller than any company you're looking at, but I think it has the most upside in my entire portfolio.’” The rest is history. Topics We Covered: • How Databricks scaled from less than $1 million to over $7 billion in revenue run rate • Why Ron believes companies must reinvent their leadership, strategy, and GTM playbook at every stage of growth • Why the people who take a company from $0 to $20 million may not be the ones who take it to $1 billion • How Databricks uses AI and Genie to automate sales forecasting, customer research, account planning, and churn prevention • Why AI is transforming the role of BDRs and SDRs, enabling greater productivity and more personalized outreach • Why human relationships and spending time with customers remain critical in the AI era • Why enterprises are struggling to generate real ROI from AI despite massive investments • How Databricks helps enterprises connect AI to their data while maintaining security, governance, and control • Why 90% of Ron's customers are starting to use open-weight models and how proper model routing can reduce AI costs by 50–80% • How Unity AI Gateway helps enterprises manage AI model selection, spending, security, and governance • Why 80% of newly launched databases are being launched by AI agents rather than humans, and how Lakebase is designed for agentic applications • How AI is transforming healthcare, from clinical research to improving patient outcomes • Why forward-deployed engineering (FDE) and technical expertise are becoming increasingly important in enterprise sales And Guess What Ron Originally Dreamed of Becoming Before Building Databricks? ⚾🧢🏆 Register to our Newsletter: https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website: https://www.boardroomclub.net #Databricks #AI #Sales #GTM #aiagents #MachineLearning #BigData #ApacheSpark #Lakebase #OpenSource #Startups Chapters: 00:00 Ben Horowitz Intro to Databricks team 00:43 Intro 01:19 Ron' GTM Philosophy Development 03:13 Hiring When scaling from 1M to 7B 05:04 Managing Personal Dynamics in GTM Teams 06:03 Sales Environment when Flying all the time 08:02 AI Impact on Sales: Genie 09:30 The Future of BDRs and Outbound 11:21 BDR to AE Development 12:35 Ron Favorite KPI 13:48 How to Get real ROI from AI? 16:07 Operational Friction Point With AI 17:57 Databricks Different Verticals 20:01 Unity AI Gateway: Solving AI Cost Problem 23:08 Databricks & System Integrators (SI) - FDEs 25:45 Unity AI Gateway & Lakebase 27:40 How to be a Great CRO? 28:50 What Ron looks for when Hiring? 30:00 Which Account Executives (AEs) to Hire? 31:39 Why Ron Joined Databricks? 33:11 Mentorship 34:02 Hobbies 34:54 Coffee Question 35:33 Alternate Universe Profession 36:13 Ron & Ali Future MLB Career? 36:59 Favorite Movie
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October 11 · 39 min
This is our iPhone Moment | DevRev CEO & Fmr CEO of Nutanix
Exclusive: Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder and CEO of DevRev and Co-Founder and Former CEO of Nutanix, joins us to discuss how AI is transforming enterprise software and the future of programming. In 2016, he took Nutanix public in the largest U.S. venture-backed IPO of the year. Now, he’s building again with DevRev, valued at $1.15B after a $100M Series A, backed by Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) Navin Chaddha (Mayfield) and others. “The iPhone moment for the enterprise is here. The LLM is the new compiler." From machine code and assembly to high-level languages and now AI-powered natural language programming, Dhiraj explains how programming has evolved and why he believes the LLM is the new compiler, changing the way we build software. Topics We Covered: • Why Dheeraj believes the iPhone moment for enterprise software is here • Why the evolution of programming languages reminds him of previous technological shifts • How AI will make building products cheaper, create more companies, and shorten product lifecycles • Why the future of enterprise AI is about self-service, combining search, answers, and actions • How DevRev brings developers, employees, and customers together through AI-native software • Why integrating enterprise data and building an enterprise memory are critical for accurate AI • Why reliability, latency, and self-service are the three key priorities for product builders • How AI is transforming product management, software engineering, and quality assurance • What Dheeraj learned from building Nutanix and why he decided to start DevRev • Why grit, curiosity, and engineering fundamentals matter in the AI era • Why Dheeraj is bullish on quantum computing and the future of biology and computing And Guess Dheeraj's Favorite Movie? 🇮🇳🕵️‍♂️🎬 Host: Yossi Garmazi Register to our Newsletter: https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website: https://www.boardroomclub.net #ai #tech #programing #coding #agents #startups #entrepreneur Chapters: 00:00 iPhone Moment for the Enterprise 00:15 Intro 00:51 Advice for people in the AI era 03:30 From Oracle to Building Companies 06:41 Building Nutanix: Critical Bets 09:25 From Nutanix to Building DevRev 11:08 Lessons from Nutanix 14:28 DevRev Mission 19:25 The Relation between Dev and Rev 25:05 How to Decide Which Features to Build? 29:20 The Future of Developers and Computer Science 33:50 Other Verticals Dheeraj Follow: Biotech & Quantum 36:57 Mentorship 37:56 Favorite Book 38:09 Favorite Movie
S5 · E9
October 4 · 37 min
Okta CRO: 150,000 Agents. Who Controls Them?
Exclusive: Jon Addison, CRO of Okta joins us to discuss how AI agents are reshaping identity, security, and the future of enterprise GTM. By 2028, Every Fortune500 would have 150,000, Agents to manage! What happens when companies go from having thousands of human identities to potentially hundreds of thousands of AI agents operating across the organization? We sat down with Jon to discuss @OktaInc 's role in the agentic era, the growing governance gap around AI agents, and how AI is transforming the way enterprise companies sell, scale, and engage with customers. Topics we covered: • Why 90% of businesses already have AI agents in production, but only 10% have well-documented policies governing them • The challenge of managing and securing thousands of AI agents across the enterprise • Why every Fortune 500 company could have 150,000+ agents in production • The three fundamental questions companies need to ask about their AI agents • How AI is changing enterprise sales and go-to-market strategies • Why sales teams are becoming more specialized and focused on domain expertise • The shift from selling products to selling platforms • How Okta is building a partner-led growth model • The importance of leading indicators and using AI to get ahead of customer problems • What separates great salespeople from great sales leaders • Why ambition and curiosity are essential in the AI era And guess who Jon would love to grab a coffee with? 🎩🗣️ 🇬🇧 Hosts: Yossi Garmazi & Jason Woolf Filmed: August 2026 Register to our Newsletter:https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club #ai #tech #identity #agents #cybersecurity #GTM #Sales Chapters: 00:00 AI is On, but no Policy 00:33 Intro 01:18 Identities Space Evolution 04:15 90% Use AI, 10% have Policy 07:55 CISO role in AI 09:16 Apex Methodology: From Discovery to Validation 13:40 The Future of Outbounds sales 17:49 Okta transition to Partner Led Growth 21:05 Forward Deployed Engineers in Cyber (FDE) 23:19 New Sales Process in Okta 27:33 The Future of Account Executives (AEs) 29:11 Higher Quotes for AES with AI? 31:30 Land Vs Expand Accounts 33:36 Lessons from Sales Career 34:58 Who is a Great Sales Leader? 36:33 Coffee Question 37:08 Favorite Movie
S5 · E8
September 27 · 36 min
Can AI Predict the Future? | ZyG CEO
Exclusive: Omer Kaplan, Co-Founder & CEO of ZyG, joins us to discuss how AI is reshaping the future of e-commerce. What happens when an e-commerce company can leverage hundreds of AI agents to handle everything around the product? We sat down with Omer to discuss his journey from building IronSource and it's acquisition by Unity to founding ZyG and creating an AI-powered operating system designed to help consumer brands scale. Topics we covered: • Building ZyG from lessons learned at IronSource • The vision for an end-to-end AI operating system for e-commerce • How hundreds of AI agents can transform marketing, creative, customer support, and more • What is the ZyG Score and how it can predict which products can become successful brands • What separates winning brands from losing brands in the AI era • How AI will reshape marketing teams and make organizations smaller • Preserving creativity and differentiation in an AI-generated world • What makes a winning brand, and could Paul McCartney succeed if he started his career today? And guess what Omer's favorite movie is? 🎶💃🕺 Register to our Newsletter:https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website:https://www.boardroomclub.net Hosts: Yossi Garmazi & Álvaro Jiménez Cabello de los Cobos Chapters: 00:00 ZyG Mission 00:22 Intro 01:04 From IronSource to Building ZyG 03:32 The Vision: An AI Operating System for E-commerce 06:09 Why Investors Backed ZyG's $118M Raise 08:12 Building an End-to-End Agentic Platform 10:28 The ZyG Score: Predicting Brand Success 15:47 What Separates Winning Brands in the AI Era 18:50 How AI Will Transform Marketing Teams 20:34 Can AI Kill Creativity and Iconic Brands? 24:47 AI Shopping Agents and the Future of Commerce 27:08 Which Marketing Functions AI Will Disrupt Next? 28:48 Advice for Founders: Think Big 31:04 Mentors, Leadership, and Entrepreneurial Lessons 34:32 Music, Movies, and Final Thoughts
S5 · E7
September 21 · 34 min
Dash0 CEO: The End of Dashboards?
Exclusive: Mirko Novakovic, Founder & CEO of Dash0, joins us to discuss how AI agents are changing the way we build, monitor, and interact with software. What happens when your users are no longer humans - but AI agents? We sat down with Mirko, to discuss his journey from building and selling Instana to IBM, taking a break from operating, and eventually returning to the trenches to build Dash0, an observability platform built for the next generation of software. Topics we covered: • Why AI agents don't need dashboards, and what they actually need? • The exponential growth of telemetry data, and why companies may need to filter out 95–99% of their data. • Dash0's transparent telemetry-based pricing model. • Dash0's Agent Zero• Dash0's acquisition of Lumigo • AI inference costs & LLM proxies • Building a moat in the AI era And guess what Mirko's favorite movie is? 🕺🍔💼 Register to our Newsletter:https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website:https://www.boardroomclub.net Hosts: Yossi Garmazi & Jason Woolf #ai #tech #obervability #software #dashboard #token #pulpfiction Chapters: 00:00 Dashboards for Agents? 00:29 Intro 01:08 Coming back from Mallorca 02:41 Learning from being an Investor 04:18 Being Open Telemetry Native 06:36 Billing by Telemetry points 08:49 Agent's philosophy in Dash0 10:38 The end of Dashboards? 13:00 Acquiring Lumigo 14:40 Building a moat in the AI e 16:43 Exponential growth of Telemetry points 19:37 AI inference costs & LLM proxies 21:38 Quantum technology 24:00 Hiring in Startups & Culture 27:06 Advice for Entrepreneurs 28:15 Mirko & Deep Tech 29:41 Mentorship 30:38 GTM in Startups 31:29 Hobbies 32:20 Coffee Question 32:59 Alternate Universe 33:41 Favorite Movie
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September 13 · 30 min
The Future of Defense Tech | Dominion Dynamics CEO
Exclusive: Eliot Pence , Founder & CEO of Dominion Dynamics, join us to discuss how they revolutionize the defense tech ecosystem. What does it take to build defense technology for one of the hardest environments on Earth - the Arctic? We sat down with Eliot Pence, Founder and CEO of Dominion Dynamics ( @defendthedominion ) a company developing autonomous command-and-control systems for defense, national security, and critical infrastructure. Elliot shares why Dominion chose the Arctic as its starting point, how extreme environments shape the company's technology, and why his philosophy is to “do the hardest thing” and build around the needs of the user. We also discussed how they're developing Canada's first sovereign Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP), named Dominion Scout, to act as an uncrewed "loyal wingman" alongside fighter jets like the F-35. Other topics we covered: • Eliot Career journey at Africa and at @Anduril working with Palmer Luckey and Trae Stephens. • Resilient communications and tactical mesh networks • The future of defense technology • Canada's history of defense innovation • Quantum technology and quantum sensing (Eliot is a board member at Xanadu @XanaduAI ) • Entrepreneurship, leadership, and mentorship Register to our Newsletter: https://boardroomclub.substack.com/ Follow our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Hosts: Yossi Garmazi #ai #tech #defensetech #canada #arctic #anduril #africa Chapters: 00:00 Building at the Arctic 00:29 Intro 01:02 Lessons from Africa 03:03 Building Anduril GTM 05:33 Defense Tech in Canada 08:17 Communications at the Arctic 10:56 Space industry & Satellites & Defense Tech 12:29 Building the ACP - Unmanned Aircraft 16:05 Building Software & Hardware at the same time 18:04 Deploying Dominion not in the Arctic 20:44 Dominion on the Moon? 21:10 Selling to NATO Allies 22:35 Defense Companies & Quantum & Xanadu 24:51 What keeps you at night? 25:34 Advice for Entrepreneurs 26:17 Mentorship 27:09 Coffee Question 28:15 Alternate Universe Profession 29:34 Genie Question 30:04 Favorite Movie
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September 10 · 29 min
The Story of Kahoot! | Chief Solutions Officer at Kahoot!
Exclusive: Sean D'Arcy is the Chief Solutions Officer at Kahoot! - the app we all know, whether from the classroom or the workplace! Sean shares his journey from Opera to Kahoot!, and explains how technology can democratize access to information and create more engaging learning experiences. We also discuss Kahoot!’s evolution from a classroom quiz platform into an increasingly important tool for enterprise learning and engagement. Other topics we cover: • AI and the future of learning - Why Kahoot! sees AI not simply as a way to automate content creation, but as a tool to augment learning and improve outcomes. • From engagement to measurable learning - How Kahoot! is moving beyond quizzes and gamification toward assessment, learning gaps, proficiency, and personalized learning journeys. • The evolution of Kahoot! - How a concept originally called “Lecture Quiz” became one of the world’s most recognizable learning platforms. • Going private - Sean explains how becoming a private company has allowed Kahoot! to focus more deeply on the opportunities ahead. • Re-onboarding after layoffs - Why organizations often underestimate the importance of rebuilding trust, connection, alignment, and skills after major organizational change. • Advice for founders and builders - Sean shares why maintaining a “Day One” mentality, moving quickly, staying resilient, and being willing to pivot are more important than ever. And guess what Sean’s favorite movie is? 🐺🌲⚔️Register to our Newsletter:https://boardroomclub.substack.com/Follow our LinkedIn page:https://www.linkedin.com/company/boardroom-club Check our website:https://www.boardroomclub.net Hosts: Yossi Garmazi & Amado Vargas #ai #tech #quiz #game #learning #norway #oslo #PrincessMononoke Chapters: 00:00 Kahoot! Evolution 00:14 Intro 00:55 From Browser Wars to Kahoot! 03:24 Kahoot! ICP Evolution 05:50 Kahoot! Name meaning 07:37 Going Private 09:18 AI Impact on Kahoot! 12:23 What does Success look like at Kahoot? 14:18 Surprise in Kahoot Usage 16:11 Kahoot Partnerships with Educators 17:52 Gamification & Remediation in Kahoot! 19:21 Onboarding, Layoffs & Kahoot 360 21:56 Kahoot! Game Advice 23:41 Advice for Founders 25:08 Mentorship 26:41 Coffee Questions 27:39 Alternate Career 28:19 Favorite Travel Location 29:12 Favorite Movie
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September 7 · 33 min
MongoDB CPO: The Secret to Making AI Smarter!
Exclusive: Ben Cefalo, Chief Product Officer at @MongoDB joins us to discuss how AI is fundamentally changing the way companies build, manage, and access data. Benjamin joins us to discuss how AI is fundamentally changing the way companies build, manage, and access #data. From why “Agents speak #JSON” to whether better data retrieval can actually reduce #LLM costs, Ben shares MongoDB’s vision for the AI era and explains why the database is becoming an increasingly important part of the AI stack. Topics we cover: • Why AI agents speak JSON and what that means for databases • How better data retrieval can reduce LLM costs and token usage • Why MongoDB built #Vector Search directly into its database • How AI agents can use databases as their long-term #memory • Why hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure is here to stay • How MongoDB evolved from an #OpenSource project into an enterprise cloud platform • The biggest challenge facing #CIOs: balancing AI adoption, speed, security, and governance Benjamin also shares his #advice for entrepreneurs and who he would love to grab a #coffee with! And What is Benjamin’s favorite #movie? 🎬🗽🍕 Register for our newsletter: https://boardroomclub.substack.com Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Hosts: Yossi Garmazi & Sanat Mouli #ai #agents #database #coding #opensource Chapters: 00:00 Agents & MongoDB 00:35 Intro 01:04 Tokenmaxxing 02:39 MongoDB: Less tokens 04:38 Incumbents needs to reshape their database? 06:45 Building Vector Search 09:09 Managing Memory at Database level 10:29 Acquiring Voyage AI 11:31 MongoDB Evolution & Open Source 15:02 Companies moving to On Premise 17:35 On Premise effect on product development 19:20 Product development strategy at MongoDB 21:04 What keeps CIOs at Night? 24:38 Indie developers Vs Enterprise 25:30 Advice for Entrepreneurs 27:04 Hobbies 27:37 Mentorship 30:08 Coffee Question 31:04 Alternate Universe profession 32:30 Favorite Movie
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September 2 · 37 min
The Mistake that Changed Hollywood | Snap & Warner Music Chair, Fmr. Sony Pictures CEO
Exclusive: Michael Lynton has sat at the center of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the media industry for decades. As former CEO of ⁠ Sony Pictures Entertainment⁠ and current Chairman of ⁠ Snap Inc. ⁠ and ⁠ Warner Music Group⁠ he has seen some of the biggest transformations - and crises - in modern media. In this conversation, Michael opens up about the infamous Sony hack surrounding The Interview, the leadership lessons he learned from managing one of the most disruptive crises in Hollywood history, and the biggest mistake he believes he made along the way. Other topics we covered: • Why AI could fundamentally reshape Hollywood, music, and social media• What Silicon Valley misunderstands about Hollywood -and vice versa • How Snap went from 25,000 users to a global platform• The difference between being a CEO and a Chairman • Why great leaders need to know when to keep their hands off the wheel • The future of augmented reality and Snap's smart glasses And Guess Michael' favorite movie? 🎬💻🍿 Register for our newsletter: https://boardroomclub.substack.com Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Hosts: Yossi Garmazi & Jason Woolf #ai #tech #movie #hollywood #snapchat #sonypictures #warnermusic #mistakes Chapters: 00:00 Learning from Mistakes 00:25 Intro 00:59 Writing a book Mistakes 05:50 How to continue after mistakes? 08:29 Private Mistake Vs Public Mistake 10:40 Fail Fast? 12:54 Chairman role 14:51 Becoming Snap Chairman 16:17 Power shift from Publishers to Content Creators? 18:08 Hollywood Vs Silicon Valley 20:22 AI Impact on Movies & Music 23:31 CEO to Chairman 25:30 Super Fan model in Warner Music 27:08 The Creator Economy 28:12 Social Media 29:35 Augmented Reality Future in Snapchat 31:33 Lessons for Founders 33:16 Mentorship 35:19 Coffee Question 36:07 Favorite Book 37:07 Favorite Movie
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August 30 · 27 min
Dan Ives on Tesla & SpaceX Merger, OpenAI, Anthropic!
Exclusive: Dan Ives is one of the most famous tech analysts on Wall Street. In this exclusive interview, we dive into some of the biggest questions shaping the markets right now: - Tesla and SpaceX: Is a merger inevitable? Dan gives his odds and his timeline. - OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Who has the better position - The AI bubble: Are investors getting carried away, or are we still only in the early stages of a massive AI buildout? - The U.S. vs. China: Why every data center decision in America could have implications for the global AI race. - AI infrastructure: What is the real bottleneck: chips, power, or data centers? - Quantum computing: Is this the next major technology revolution, or are investors getting ahead of themselves?- SpaceX: Can its massive valuation be justified by the opportunity ahead?We also discuss Dan’s next chapter on Wall Street: the launch of Yorkville Ives & Co., his new merchant bank focused on helping ambitious companies scale and reach the next level. Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Host: ⁠Yossi Garmazi⁠ #ai #tech #stockmarket #stock #tesla #spacex #openai #anthropic #wallstreet Chapters: 00:00 Tesla & SpaceX Merger? 00:28 Intro 00:54 Are we in a Bubble? 02:19 AI Debt Problem 03:53 OpenAI Vs Anthropic 06:19 Foundational Models Moat 07:48 AI Bottleneck 09:09 AI PR Issue 11:04 AI & Jobs 12:43 SpaceX Valuation Sustainable? 15:39 Tesla & SpaceX Merger? 17:05 Quantum IPOs: is the Hype Real? 19:40 Launching a bank: Yorkville Ives & Co 21:05 Dan Dress Code! 22:05 CEO: Storytelling Vs. Great Numbers 23:21 Dan Favorite Stock? 24:25 Biggest CEO Mistakes on Wall Street 25:05 Coffee Question 25:50 Favorite Movie
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August 23 · 44 min
Rubrik CTO: The End of Zero Trust?
Arvind Nithrakashyap is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) the cybersecurity resilience platform. We started by exploring how Rubrik has evolved from a data backup and protection company into a #CyberResilience and data security platform - and what's next in the new AI era and RAG technology. And indeed the world is changing, Enterprise security was built around deterministic policies: do X if Y happens, while #LLMs are probabilistic - So what happens to the #ZeroTrust principles? We also discussed Rubrik #AgentRewind, which tackles mistakes made by autonomous AI #agents. We dove into how Arvind’s team built the audit trail needed to determine whether an incident was caused by a flawed AI prompt, an autonomous agent’s decision, or a compromised user credential. Other interesting topics we covered: - How Arvind measures #ROI in the new AI era - Cybersecurity & Open Source - Cybersecurity & Quantum computing - Tokenmaaxing And Arvind’s favorite movie? 🤌💼👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Host: Yossi Garmazi #ai #tech #cybersecurity #coding #agent Chapters: 00:00 Cybersecurity & AI Agents 00:32 Intro 01:04 IIT Lessons 03:33 India Rise as a Tech Hub 04:48 Open Source & Cybersecurity 08:34 What's next for Rubrik? RAG Technology & 13:12 OpenAI & Antropic Agents Going Rouge 13:43 Enterprise Security & AI 18:44 Rubrik Agent Rewind 22:32 The future of Zero Trust 26:00 ROI in the AI World 28:57 Quantum & Cybersecurity 32:10 The future of CISOs 35:47 Advice foe Entrepreneurs 38:44 Mentorship 41:16 Coffee Question 42:49 Alternate Universe Question 43:19 Favorite Movie
S5 · E1
August 16 · 23 min
Chainguard CEO: Can AI Break Open Source?
Dan Lorenc is the Co-Founder of Chainguard, which raised ~$900M to make it Open Source secure to use. We started by discussing the #challenges around the distribution and consumption of open source. It’s free and ubiquitous - but do we really consume the source code itself? Or as Dan phrase it: "It's free as in puppy, not free as in beer" We then explored #ChainguardImages, what the future holds for #containers in the new era of AI, and whether the industry is heading toward a more standardized, centralized system. Other interesting topics we covered: - Was #Mythos a marketing stunt? - Chainguard Agent Skills and agent-to-agent attacks - The beginning of Chainguard And who would Dan would love to grab a coffee with? 🏀🗽👑 Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Host: Yossi Garmazi #ai #tech #cybersecurity #coding #agent #knicks #JalenBrunson Chapters: 00:00 Open Source & AI 00:27 Intro 00:58 What is Open Source? 02:46 Agents & Open Source 05:28 Is Open Source broken? 08:08 The Beginning of Chainguard 09:07 Chainguard Base-image & Containers 10:29 Open Source Regularity Pressure 11:34 Mythos: A Marketing Stunt? 12:46 Agent-to-Agent Attack 14:41 Open Source Misconception 16:10 Execution in Startups 17:00 When to Hire Sales? 18:28 Advice for Builders 19:44 Tokenmaaxing 20:56 What is AI Native Company? 21:26 Mentorship 22:08 Coffee Question 23:00 Favorite Movie
S4 · E20
August 4 · 44 min
Radical AI CEO: Discovering New Materials with AI | Apex Series
One space everyone is excited to see revolutionized by AI is MaterialsScience, and a company at the forefront of it is Radical AI. A key part of materials science is trial & error. We discussed how Radical AI captures valuable “negative data” (the error side) from its self-driving #labs to train #AI models and accelerate discovery. We then explored their unconventional #InverseDesign approach - starting with the desired material properties and working backward to design new materials. Other interesting topics we covered: - How do self-driving labs actually work? - The future of #quantum computing - Different approaches to semiconductor #chip design And guess Joseph’s alternate-universe profession? 🤠🐎🏜️ Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Interviewers: Yossi Garmazi & Jacob Chizunza, CA #ai #tech #material #science #chip Chapters: 00:00 Messy date is good? 00:22 Intro 01:10 What led to you starting the company 03:41 How Ai is capturing negative data 07:05 AI Finding New Materials? 09:45 Self Driving Labs 12:44 AI Innovation in New Verticals 16:20 Shortening the R&D time 18:45 Local ecosystem in New York 24:45 AI Impact on Medical 27:45 Quantum Readiness 31:40 Most Excited AI Verticals 38:19 Advice for builders 39:17 Mentors 41:30 Favorite Movie 42:50 Alternate career
S4 · E19
August 2 · 19 min
Speechify CEO: From Dyslexia to 60M+ Users | Apex Series
From having dyslexia to building a tech powerhouse with 60M+ users! We started by exploring Cliff’s journey - from studying #renewable energy engineering to choosing not to race after a fancy job. Instead, he stayed on campus and started building something completely different: what would become Speechify. #Customer obsession was key: from calling users directly on #FaceTime to running customer support through iMessage, it's all about staying close to customers and continuously improving the product. An interesting fact: today, 10% of Speechify’s user acquisition is already driven by #LLMs search queries! Other topics we covered: - What is Cliff’s biggest accomplishment at Speechify? - His advice on mentorship and building relationships. And Cliff’s favorite #hobby?🥷🥋🥊 Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Interviewers: Yossi Garmazi & Jason Woolf #ai #tech #speech #agent #gtm Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:59 Cliff Story 07:40 Hurdles along the way 11:50 LLMs as Growth Engines 12:32 Being AI Company in 2015 14:19 Biggest Moment 15:45 Mentorship 16:58 Hobbies
S4 · E18
July 26 · 30 min
IQM CEO: Why Quantum & AI Must Work Together | Apex Series
Watch our exclusive interview with Jan Goetz, Co-Founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (NASDAQ: IQMX). IQM Quantum Computers just made #history - becoming the first European quantum computing company to go public on Nasdaq! We started by exploring the dynamics between #Quantum and #AI - and why Jan believes the future will be a #hybrid approach, with quantum computing embedded into other compute modalities. As a newly public company, we also discussed how to communicate a developing field like quantum computing to sophisticated investors on #WallStreet, where it's all about numbers. A major #differentiator for IQM is its on-premises systems approach, rather than a Quantum-as-a-Service model. We discussed why this becomes particularly important in the data sovereignty era. And, of course, what is the future of quantum computing in an era of #datacenters powered by GPUs - and how is IQM positioned to this future. Other topics we covered: - Selling the first quantum computer to a private enterprise - Could we have a personal Quantum computer? - Where is the biggest potential for Quantum - Quantum ChatGBT moment? And who Jan would love to grab a #coffee with?🌌⚛️💡 Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Interviewers: Yossi Garmazi & Jason Woolf #ai #tech #quantum #depptech #compute Chapters: 00:00 Quantum & AI 00:21 Intro 01:01 From Academia to Quantum Startup 02:41 Relationship b/w quantum & AI 04:23 Europe's Quantum competitiveness 05:56 Public company impact on R&D strategy 07:17 Investor focus: Research vs Commercial 08:40 On-prem systems & Quantum Sovereignty 10:48 Data Center integration & GPU ecosystem 12:10 First Quantum Sold to Private Buyer 13:39 Practical impact of 150+ qubits 16:00 Error correction as core bottleneck 18:54 Quantum use cases known & unknown 20:56 Use cases × bottom-line business impact 21:59 Quantum's ChatGPT moment 23:37 Timeline prediction of ChatGPT moment 25:03 Future of personal quantum computing 26:02 Mentorship & advice for founders 27:13 Dream coffee 27:50 Alternate career 28:33 Life outside work 29:11 Favorite movies & sci-fi realism
S4 · E17
July 19 · 48 min
Zeta Global CEO: We Rebuilt Everything | Apex Series
Watch a preview of our exclusive interview with David A Steinberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) Zeta Global has been built like layers of dreams - just like #Inception - with each chapter requiring the company to reinvent itself. We started in 2017, at the #pivotal board meeting where Zeta decided to transform from a customer lifecycle platform into an AI-native company, sunsetting its previous platform and redefining the future of marketing innovation. Fast forward to 2026, we explored another major #evolution - the biggest pivot in the company’s history - with the launch of #Athena, an AI voice-enabled conversational super agent that moves beyond keyboards and platform navigation toward managing outcomes. We also unpacked Zeta’s M&A #strategy: after completing 19 acquisitions in 19 years, what does their post-merger integration (#PMI) playbook look like? And Lastly, in a marketing world dominated by Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), but what's about #Agent Driven Acquisition Costs? And can you guess David’s favorite #movie? 🚀🪐⏳ Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Interviewer: Yossi Garmazi #ai #tech #gtm #marketing #Merph John Sculley Chapters: 00:00 The AI Pivot 00:36 Intro 01:07 Tokenmaxxing 04:10 2017- The Big Pivot 09:56 The Innovator Dilemma 11:15 NYSE IPO: Who is AL? 13:31 Athena 15:43 AI Professions Change 17:41 M&A Playbook: 19 Acquisitions in 19 Years 21:04 Agent Acquisition Cost? 23:22 Proprietary Data in Zeta 27:11 Open Source 29:01 Token Price 31:22 Having John Sculley as Co-Founder 33:27 Misconceptions About AI 36:22 Advice for Builders 37:45 Reading Habits 39:19 Mentorship 40:56 Hobbies 42:16 Knicks 44:31 Coffee Question 45:09 Favorite Movie 46:25 Inception: Was It a Dream?
S4 · E16
July 12 · 46 min
Island CEO: Quantum Changes Everything in Cybersecurity | Apex Series
Watch our exclusive interview with Michael Fey, Co-Founder and CEO of Island. The #browser has become the core workspace layer for enterprises, and a company at the forefront of this shift is Island. We started by exploring how #AI has transformed Island’s product roadmap, and how they see AI differently, as a positive force from a #cybersecurity standpoint, with products like AI Publish, enabling teams to build applications while keeping them safe to use. From there, we moved into #Mythos - why AI is the answer, not the problem, and why AI shouldn’t be viewed as the “boogeyman” of cybersecurity. And well, then there is #Quantum, or “Quantum Armageddon,” as they call it. We explored how Island is positioned to be on the front line of defense in a future shaped by quantum computing. Other interesting subjects we discussed: - What is being underestimated in the cybersecurity industry? - #Tokenmaxing: How can companies optimize innovation in the era of tokens? - Data centers in #space: What will cybersecurity look like beyond Earth? And Michael’s favorite #movie? 🎬🎩🤌 Check our new website: https://www.boardroomclub.net Register for our newsletter https://boardroomclub.substack.com Interviewers: Yossi Garmazi & Sanat Mouli #ai #tech #agent #browser #cybersecurity #anthropic Chapters: 00:00 Cybersecurity & Quantum 00:39 Intro 01:22 Competition 03:28 AI Impact on Island 07:20 AI: Safe & Productive? 10:47 Mythos: Innovation / Marketing Stunt? 12:18 Enterprise Browser: First line of Defense? 15:31 Quantum Armageddon Day 18:44 CISO's Role Evolution 21:06 Agents in Cybersecurity 25:57 What's being underestimated in Cyber? 28:41 Tokenmaxxing 31:38 Software Development Future 34:32 Mike' Physics Background 36:57 Cybersecurity in Space? 38:29 Genie Question 39:29 Mentorship 42:26 Coffee Question 43:33 World Cup 44:32 Favorite Movie

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