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Interviews with founders, operators and investors who are at the center of the AI transformation era. We go beyond the hype cycle to talk about real implementation and how to build sustainable AI-powered businesses. 

  1. How do millions of simulated worlds teach AI to think? | Patronus AI

    1D AGO

    How do millions of simulated worlds teach AI to think? | Patronus AI

    How do we systematically evaluate and improve increasingly autonomous AI systems? In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Glenn Solomon and Dan Cahana sit down with Rebecca Qian, co-founder and CTO of Patronus AI. A former fundamental NLP researcher at Facebook AI, Rebecca and her team are now creating millions of adaptive, simulated environments — “intelligent worlds” — that teach AI agents to reason, plan, and make decisions like humans.  Join us as we explore: The Eval Problem: Too few evals on too narrow a slice of reality; benchmark and leaderboard culture has created the wrong incentive.Reality of Simulations: The shift from single-turn classification to agents that reason and decide the way people do. And the stakes if you get it wrong — reward hacking, deception, misalignment.Building the Factory: The insight that general intelligence requires generalizable capabilities — not domain-specific data.Chapters: 00:00 — The Eval Problem: Why current AI evaluation methods are fundamentally broken—and what it means for building reliable, autonomous systems. 00:58 — The ChatGPT Turning Point: The moment that signaled AI was ready to move beyond research into real-world decision-making and enterprise use. 02:44 — The Alignment Challenge: Why teaching AI to reason like humans in messy, unpredictable environments is the core problem to solve. 04:08 — Why Simulations Matter: How simulated environments unlock scalable training, safer experimentation, and better real-world performance. 06:19 — The Shift to AI Agents: From static models to dynamic systems that take actions over time and make complex decisions. 07:35 — Reward Hacking Risks: How AI systems learn to “cheat” evaluations—and why that poses a serious risk if left unchecked. 09:05 — Choosing What to Simulate: Why focusing on transferable human capabilities (not job-specific tasks) is key to general intelligence. 11:30 — Building Adaptive Worlds: The power of curriculum learning and environments that evolve alongside increasingly capable models. 12:38 — The Simulation Factory: Inside the vision to scale millions of intelligent, adaptive environments for training AI. 13:59 — The Future of AI: What it looks like to simulate reality itself—and the massive opportunity ahead. 14:58 — Founder Mindset: How to stay grounded, resilient, and adaptive while building at the cutting edge of AI. 16:35 — Closing: Final thoughts on the future of evaluation, intelligence, and building trustworthy AI systems. Produced by Breaking Glass Studio. Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    17 min
  2. Is your website about to lose 90% of its human visitors? | Scrunch AI

    MAR 26

    Is your website about to lose 90% of its human visitors? | Scrunch AI

    Your website doesn't need to go away — but 90% of its human visitors probably will. In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Chelsea Taylor sits down with Chris Andrew, co-founder and CEO of Scrunch AI. After a decade selling enterprise software to the world's largest banks and insurance companies, Chris spotted a permanent shift in how humans browse, engage, and transact on the web — and built the infrastructure for what comes next. Join us as we explore: The Permanent Shift: AI is already powering over 50% of search in North America. The way people discover brands, products, and information has fundamentally changed — and most companies haven't caught up.Marketing to Agents, Not Just Humans: The martech stack isn't about perfecting the human experience anymore. AI agents are arriving at your website with context and intent, on behalf of a human. If you're not marketing to the agent, you're missing the human.What Scrunch Actually Does: Monitor how AI agents interact with your content, understand how your brand appears across AI search platforms, and deliver content optimized for retrieval — a parallel version of your site built for the models shaping the modern customer journey.Produced by Breaking Glass Studio. Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    16 min
  3. From Exit to Restart: How Torq’s Repeat Founders are Reimagining the Future of Security Operations

    MAR 12

    From Exit to Restart: How Torq’s Repeat Founders are Reimagining the Future of Security Operations

    In this episode of Notable Perspectives, we sit down with Ofer Smadari, co-founder and CEO of Torq. Cybersecurity is in the midst of a massive transformation, and Torq is setting the pace. Ofer has built and sold a cybersecurity company for over $200 million. But he still had that founder hunger and urge to build — this time even bigger. Cut to today, Torq has recently announced a $140 million Series D and a valuation of over $1 billion. This is the story of what happens when a serial founder refuses to settle. Episode Summary Hear how Torq’s founding team went from a previous exit to building one of the most ambitious platforms in modern cybersecurity. In this episode, we dig into: The Pivot That Built Torq: Why the team shut down their original product and redirected their technology toward cybersecurity automation after realizing adoption wasn’t there.The Alert Fatigue Problem: How security teams are overwhelmed by alerts and why automation is essential to eliminate operational noise and scale security operations.Modernizing the SOC: Why legacy security platforms were built for on-prem environments and how Torq’s open, SaaS-first platform enables faster integrations and automation.AI in Security Operations: From no-code automation to AI-driven investigation agents that perform analyst-level tasks and accelerate threat response.Founder Trust and Velocity: How strong co-founder relationships, decisive leadership, and trust across teams enabled rapid pivots and global growth.Produced by Breaking Glass Studio Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    13 min
  4. A Keyboard-Less Future: Reinventing a 150-Year-Old Interface with Wispr Flow

    FEB 19

    A Keyboard-Less Future: Reinventing a 150-Year-Old Interface with Wispr Flow

    In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Hans Tung and Chelcie Taylor sit down with Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, the founders of Wispr, a company on a mission to make interacting with technology feel as natural as talking to a close friend. They’re the team behind Wispr Flow, a voice operating system built to replace the keyboard. By delivering a "zero-edit” experience, Wispr has closed the decade-long trust gap in voice technology. Users spend half a second between finishing a thought and hitting send, trusting the AI to have captured their intent perfectly without a single edit. We trace the journey of these two Stanford roommates who cycled through 100 ideas before finding the "one." We dive deep into: The Paradigm Shift: Why the keyboard is the ultimate bottleneck for human thought and how Wispr is building the "Universal Interface" to replace it.The Hardware Trap: Why they pivoted from a wearable brain-computer interface to a software-first approach to achieve immediate scale.Trust as a Metric: How they achieved a median "half-second" enter-time, where users trust the AI enough to hit send without even reading the output.The Agentic Vision: Moving from voice dictation to proactive agents that can send Slacks and plan trips without you ever opening an app.Universal Accessibility: The profound impact of voice for the 700 million people globally with dyslexia and those with Parkinson’s, proving that the future of computing is truly for everyone.Follow Tanay Kothari on X: https://x.com/tankots Follow Tanay Kothari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tankots/ Follow Sahaj Garg on X: https://x.com/SahajGarg6 Follow Sahaj Garg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahajgarg/ Visit Wispr's Website: https://wisprflow.ai/ Follow Notable Capital:  Find Us On X: https://x.com/notablecap  Find Us On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/notablecapital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0  Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094 Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    33 min
  5. Elizabeth Weil on Hypergrowth at Twitter, AI Valuations, and What Makes Great Founders

    FEB 5

    Elizabeth Weil on Hypergrowth at Twitter, AI Valuations, and What Makes Great Founders

    Host Glenn Solomon sits down with Elizabeth Weil, founder and Managing Director of Scribble Ventures. Elizabeth shares her remarkable journey from early venture roles to helping scale Twitter from 50 to 3,000 people, building the market development function at Andreessen Horowitz, and ultimately founding Scribble Ventures. She discusses her transition from prolific angel investor (100 companies, 23 unicorns) to managing institutional capital, the breakout success of investments like Whatnot, and her perspective on today's frothy AI market. The conversation explores what makes great founders, common mistakes in the AI era, and the future opportunities Elizabeth is most excited about. Follow Elizabeth Weil: X - @Elizabeth https://x.com/elizabeth  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethweil/  Follow Notable Capital:  Find Us On X: https://x.com/notablecap  Find Us On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/notablecapital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0  Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094 Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    28 min
  6. The Future of Work is AI Agents: Flo Crivello, Lindy

    JAN 15

    The Future of Work is AI Agents: Flo Crivello, Lindy

    Host Glenn Solomon sits down with Flo Crivello, Founder & CEO of Lindy. Flo shares his journey from France to Silicon Valley, reflecting on his experiences at Uber and the pivotal transition from Teamflow to Lindy AI. He explains how Lindy’s no-code AI agents automate business workflows across more than 1,600 apps, and discusses the rapid evolution of AI technology. The conversation dives into the future of AI in business, real-world challenges of AI adoption, and Flo’s advice for other AI founders. Follow Flo Crivello:  X - @Altimor  LinkedIn - @Flo Crivello  Follow Glenn Solomon:  X - @glennsolomon  LinkedIn - @Glenn Solomon  Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    34 min
  7. The Art of Developer Experience: Inngest's $20M Series A

    09/22/2025

    The Art of Developer Experience: Inngest's $20M Series A

    In this episode, Dan Cahana sits down with Tony Holdstock-Brown, co-founder and CEO of Inngest. Key Topics Covered: Why simplifying APIs without losing power is the ultimate design challengeHow to filter customer feedback when building broad infrastructure toolsThe future of developer tools in an AI-dominated coding landscapeLessons from Docker's explosive growth and subsequent strugglesBuilding company culture around developer experience obsessionThe shift from traditional workflows to AI agent orchestrationWhether you're building developer tools, working in infrastructure, or just curious about the future of software development, this conversation offers insights from someone who's been at the forefront of multiple waves of developer tool innovation. Where to find Tony Holdstock-Brown:  Twitter/X: @itstonyhb LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyhb/ Where to find Dan Cahana:  Twitter/X: @dan_cahana LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dancahana/ Where to find Notable Capital:  Twitter/X: @notablecap LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/notablecapital/ Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    41 min
  8. Building the Browser Infrastructure for AI Agents with the Founder of Browserbase

    06/26/2025

    Building the Browser Infrastructure for AI Agents with the Founder of Browserbase

    What happens when AI agents need to navigate the web just like humans do? In this episode, we sit down with Paul Klein, co-founder and CEO of Browserbase, to explore how browsers are becoming the critical infrastructure layer for AI-powered automation. Paul shares his journey from working at companies like Twilio and Mux to founding Browserbase, a platform that provides headless browser infrastructure for developers building AI agents that can interact with any website on the internet. Key Takeaways: Start with a burning problem: Paul emphasizes that startups should be a "means of last resort" — you should only start a company when you have a problem you absolutely must solveThe browser as AI primitive: As AI agents become more prevalent, browsers serve as a critical infrastructure layer for software to interact with websites that weren't designed for programmatic accessDeveloper experience is paramount: Drawing from his time at Twilio, Paul stresses the importance of creating "five-minute demos" and magical moments that help developers quickly understand the value propositionOpen source as a growth strategy: Browserbase open-sourced their Stagehand framework with an MIT license to build developer trust, enable customization, and accelerate adoptionEveryone becomes a developer: With AI coding tools, the line between technical and non-technical users is blurring, expanding the potential market for developer primitivesInternal messaging matters: One of the most important lessons from Jeff Lawson was the critical role of internal communication and all-hands meetings in building great infrastructure companiesFocus on the "boring" use cases: Rather than flashy applications like flight booking, Browserbase finds success in automating mundane, long-tail workflows that lack first-party integrationsLearn more about Browserbase: https://www.browserbase.com/ Read Paul’s memo that launched the idea for Browserbase: “An Internet Browser for AI” Where to find Paul Klein IV:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkleiniv/  Twitter/X: @pk_iv Where to find Glenn Solomon:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennsolomon/  Twitter/X: @glennsolomon Where to find Dan Cahana: @dan_cahana LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dancahana/  Twitter/X:  Where to find Notable Capital:  www.notablecap.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/notablecapital  Twitter/X: @notablecap Contact: frt@notablecap.com Follow Notable Capital:  X: @notablecap  LinkedIn: @Notable Capital  Visit Our Website: https://www.notablecap.com/  Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43j3cMkcKIgHuXu1tFHWpz?si=a326d0cd016f47c0 Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notable-perspectives/id1392649094

    38 min
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