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by Tom Chavez -- super{set}
Building a company from scratch is soul-sucking and mind-numbingly hard - but it’s the best thing ever. We know this because we’ve built a couple ourselves - and we’re building a lot more right now. We’ve made a lot of money for our employees, our shareholders, ourselves - we’re proud of that - and that’s why we want to talk about how it’s done. Join Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya in The Closed Session, where we reveal all the joys and sorrows of company building. From the guttermost to the uttermost, we’re not going to hold back.
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- May 25, 202631 min
Why sleep data may redefine healthcare AI
Most healthcare AI founders pitch the technology instead of patient outcomes. Colin Lawlor, founder of Sleep.ai with 15 years in sleep science and 250+ clinical studies, explains why sleep data requires specialized infrastructure beyond generic LLMs. He reveals how Sleep.ai's billion-hour proprietary dataset creates defensible moats through wearable normalization models, intervention efficacy mapping across 600+ devices, and closed-loop outcome measurement that health apps can't replicate without years of R&D investment.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- May 11, 202630 min
How Culture Evolves as Companies Scale and Exit
Most founders treat culture like an afterthought until it breaks. George Schlossnagle, founder of Message Systems (sold to MessageBird for $600M), explains why culture debt accumulates faster than technical debt and destroys scaling companies from within. He breaks down the "culture branching" phenomenon that happens around 100 employees, shares frameworks for detecting early warning signs like "that's not how we do things here," and reveals why hiring for cultural fit matters as much as technical capability in post-funding execution.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- May 4, 202616 min
How agentic personalization creates enterprise advantage
Most enterprise AI delivers generic responses when you need role-specific intelligence. Peter Day, General Partner at super{set} with a PhD in machine learning and 8 years leading product at Quantcast, breaks down why agentic personalization creates unbreachable competitive moats. He reveals the architectural patterns for building software that learns individual preferences in real-time, explains why role collapse will eliminate 60-80% of traditional engineering positions, and details the shift from seat-based SaaS pricing to outcome-driven models that compound user value.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Apr 13, 202631 min
Why augmented intelligence (not automation) will define enterprise AI
Most enterprise AI failures aren't model problems—they're data architecture problems. Vivek Vaidya, serial entrepreneur with 25+ years building enterprise software and current CTO/Co-founder of super{set}, explains why vector databases alone can't solve enterprise AI and why knowledge graphs are foundational for production systems. He breaks down the critical difference between augmented intelligence (AI proposes, human approves) versus full automation, details how governance layers must respect existing enterprise data policies, and reveals why non-deterministic LLM outputs create compliance nightmares that kill enterprise adoption.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Mar 30, 202628 min
How auction theory is reshaping finance and compute trading
Most financial markets still run on one-to-one matching when optimization engines could unlock trillions. Kelly Littlepage co-founded OneChronos after exits to major financial institutions, building the fastest-growing US equities market processing $20 billion daily using Nobel Prize-winning combinatorial auction theory. He breaks down why capital markets lagged behind ad markets in auction sophistication, how machine learning solves NP-hard matching problems at Wall Street speed, and why GPU compute markets need combinatorial auctions to handle non-fungible infrastructure across latency zones and chip architectures.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Mar 16, 202645 min
How to systematically remove yourself as your business's biggest bottleneck
Most founders think scaling means hiring more people, but 66% of Inc. 5000 companies fail within eight years because growth without systems is just expensive chaos. Charles Gaudet, founder of Predictable Profits and "CEO Whisperer" who's unlocked $100M+ in client revenue, breaks down why founder-dependent businesses hit inevitable walls regardless of funding or talent acquisition. He reveals the three systematic traps (setup, sales, and scale) that keep seven-figure CEOs trapped in operational bottlenecks. Plus, Charles shares his framework for achieving 50% recurring revenue and removing yourself from daily decision-making without breaking company momentum. This is an episode you don't want to miss.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Mar 2, 202628 min
The Path to Funding Your Next Great AI Startup Idea
Most AI fundraising advice is performative gibberish disconnected from capital reality. Arjun Dev Arora, managing partner at Format One, breaks down why founders absorbing social media narratives about billion-dollar pre-seed rounds are setting themselves up for failure. Arjun reveals why traditional VC support models collapse post-check, how technical founders systematically mismanage board dynamics, and why the only defensible AI moats come from proprietary data loops.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Feb 16, 202636 min
4 Part Framework to Secure Startup Funding
Most founders pitch the wrong metrics while $200 billion flows into AI startups annually. Vijay Rajendran, author of #1 Amazon bestseller "The Funding Framework" and venture builder at gAI Ventures, breaks down why fundraising feels harder despite abundant capital. He reveals the four-part system that shifts founders from pitching to partnering, why retention metrics will expose vanity user counts, and how inference costs are crushing margins for AI companies that don't understand their unit economics.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Building a company from scratch is soul-sucking and mind-numbingly hard - but it’s the best thing ever. We know this because we’ve built a couple ourselves - and we’re building a lot more right now. We’ve made a lot of money for our employees, our shareholders, ourselves - we’re proud of that - and that’s why we want to talk about how it’s done. Join Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya in The Closed Session, where we reveal all the joys and sorrows of company building. From the guttermost to the uttermost, we’re not going to hold back.
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