Lisbeth Kaufman, Head of Climate Tech at AWS, sits down with Ryan to talk about her work helping climate tech startups get off the ground and the role startups can play in addressing the climate change crisis. She highlights a few projects to get excited about, including ones focused on fusion energy and sustainable agriculture.
Founder and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal tells Ben, Cassidy, and Eira about the developer challenges he aims to solve with his new venture, Harness, an AI-driven software development platform meant to take the pain out of DevOps. Jyoti shares his journey as a founder, his perspective on the venture capital landscape, and his reasons behind his decision to raise debt capital for Harness.
Ben talks with venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz about his path from Java engineer to Google product manager and finally to author and investor. They cover why lower data storage costs and improved database performance are driving a new wave of innovation, how LLMs learn by doing, and how companies (and investors) should respond to uncertain economic conditions.
Ben talks with startup founder and advisor Elizabeth Zalman about what makes the founder-investor relationship unique in the world of capital, what changes with technical founders, and what VCs are really looking for.
There is a growing lack of practice time for students and doctors to work on their surgical techniques. A new VR training system thinks it can help.
