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Every week, Nova’s founders and members cut through the noise so you can stay on top of what matters in tech, AI and the future of work, before it reaches your feed. No scripts, no filters: just real insight from the people shaping their sectors.

  1. 1d ago

    Signal 15: I Sold My Startup for $75M in Under 3 Years | StackAI's Toni Rosinol | Apple Sues OpenAI | The Real AI Moat

    The weekly filter on tech, AI and the future of work. Every week, Nova's founders and members cut through the noise so you can stay on top of what matters in tech, AI and the future of work, before it reaches your feed. No scripts, no filters: just real insight from the people shaping their sectors. In Episode 15, Nova's co-founders Ramón and Andrea sit down with Toni Rosinol, co-founder of StackAI, for a conversation about building a company over 3 years and the journey to its acquisition by Asana. Topics covered: how StackAI went from a horizontal, viral no-code platform to a focused enterprise play for regulated industries like finance. Why distribution became a key factor in StackAI's next phase of growth, and why Asana stood out: not just for its reach, but for its shared vision for the future of enterprise AI. Why Toni and his co-founder were thoughtful about finding the right long-term partner, and how that changed the negotiation. The one condition they set before agreeing to the deal: keep the team, the product and the culture intact. Why the AI talent bar just moved from "one great engineer replaces 10 average ones" to "one great engineer replaces 100." Toni's blunt read on where the real AI moat is heading (hint: not the model). Apple's new lawsuit against OpenAI over trade secrets and poached staff. GPT-5.6's launch and what it means for pricing pressure across the industry. And Toni's answer to the question every founder in Spain gets asked: build in Europe, or leave?

  2. May 28

    Signal 09: IC vs. Manager | AI Solves 70-Year Math | SpaceX Goes Public | AI 15x Cheaper

    An AI just solved a geometric problem open for 70 years. SpaceX filed for a $1.75T IPO. Google's CEO named 2030 as his year for AGI. And inside Nova, the team went from a frontier model to one that costs 15 times less and performs 2.5x better on AI shortlisting. This week Ramon sits down with Christian, CPO at Nova, and Jesus, Head of AI at Nova, to cover what's shipping at Nova and what shaped the week across AI, tech, and the future of work. This week's news - GPT cracks the Erdos geometry problem, open and unsolved for 70 years - SpaceX files for a $1.75T IPO, selling roughly 4% of shares - Google I/O: 7x more tokens processed year-on-year, CEO says AGI by 2030 - EU Pay Transparency directive goes live next week, enforcement still pending in most countries - Micron and AMD up 6x in 2 months as agents drive unexpected demand for CPU and RAM over GPU - XAI and Cursor: why Grok needs a platform, not just a better model Timeless takeaways - How Nova went from a frontier model to one that's 15x cheaper and 2.5x more accurate on shortlisting, using eval datasets and LLM-as-a-judge - Fine-tuning vs. prompting in 2026: when each makes sense and why most teams are still prompting - How Nova's product team now ships full projects end-to-end, from data pipelines to the website, without handing off to engineering - The "Become an AI Recruiter" course: how Christian built it solo with AI and one LinkedIn post hit 1,400 comments the day after - IC vs. manager: why the best career move in 2026 is staying in the field, not climbing above it - Claude Code: why the desktop app is the better onboarding path for non-technical teams The episode closes with a sharp conversation on the IC vs. manager shift, why mid-management built on information relay is quietly being replaced, and what the actual future of knowledge work looks like. Signal is hosted by Ramon Rodriganez and Andrea Marino, co-founders of Nova. New episode every week. #Signal #AINews #FutureOfWork #Nova

  3. May 21

    Signal 08: Nova Wins Dubai | Karpathy at Anthropic | Musk Loses OpenAI | Lovable Hits $400M

    Everyone is watching Anthropic vs. OpenAI. Meanwhile, in the labs, robots are being built that will reshape the economy in ways that make the current AI debate look small.Matthias, Nova 111 UK Supernova and Harvard PhD researcher, joined Ramón and Andrea to talk about the real frontier of AI — the physical world. From exoskeletons helping people with Parkinson's walk, to humanoid robots promising to replace entire industries, the conversation cuts through the hype to what actually matters: when robotics truly unlocks at scale, the blue collar shock will make today's white collar AI disruption look manageable. If a robot costs less than a human, there's no debate — companies will hire the robot. That's not pessimism. That's math.We also got into Europe vs. the US: why the continent's best engineering talent keeps ending up at Harvard, MIT, and ETH Zurich before crossing the Atlantic for good. The schools are world-class. The pay isn't. The ecosystem doesn't pull. And that's a structural problem Europe hasn't solved — and is running out of time to fix.On the news side: Google's Gemini quietly taking over classified Pentagon work, OpenAI removing its safety handover clause from its founding charter, China becoming the first government to legally protect workers from AI-driven layoffs, the Oscars banning AI actors and AI-written scripts, Sam Altman pitching OpenAI as the Stripe of intelligence, and Stripe launching wallets so agents can spend your money — while 47% of internet traffic is already bots.The best connections in your career aren't a matter of chance. Nova is the merit-based professional network where you'll find the greatest talent. Want to be a part of it? Link here 👉 https://www.novatalent.com/top-talent?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signal-ep08&utm_content=bio-linkLooking to hire top talent? Nova Recruiter is the world's most advanced tool to find and engage qualified talent. Search in a +800M public profile database with merit-based filters, multi-channel sequencing and AI agents that automate your work E2E and save up to 98% of the sourcing time (~22h / process). Try it for free 👉 https://www.novatalent.com/nova-recruiter?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signal-ep08&utm_content=bio-link

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Every week, Nova’s founders and members cut through the noise so you can stay on top of what matters in tech, AI and the future of work, before it reaches your feed. No scripts, no filters: just real insight from the people shaping their sectors.