Long conversations with founders, investors and scientists on the work that defines their second act.
Takeaways from SecondPod conversations, plus essays on AI, private markets and the people building what comes next. Written by Ardalan Javadi.
The first investor behind Cursor and Kalshi. Ali cofounded LinkExchange and sold it to Microsoft at 26, backed Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Dropbox, and built Neo, the mentorship community behind Cursor and Kalshi.
From AI recruiter to one of AI's youngest billionaires. In Persian.
She took Fitbit from $700M to $2.2B.
Is AI revenue inflated? Our first live recording.
The Iranian founder who built a $3.2B company.
Be a cockroach, not a unicorn.
Leaving the data center.
Fourteen people doing world class work right now in AI, robotics, venture and business. Our choice, not a ranking.
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