"It's really great to see all of you. What I want to do today since this is build as startup school is share with you some lessons I've learned about building startups at AI fund. AI funds a venture st..."

"So it turns out that for those of you that want to build a startup, I think a strong predictor for startup's odds of success is execution speed. And I actually have a lot of respect for the entreprene..."

"a lot over the last year um and in terms of AI tech trends I if you ask me what's the most important tech trend in AI I would say is the rise of agentic AI and about a year and a half ago when I start..."

"It turns out that um at AI fun we only focus on working on concrete ideas. So to me a concrete idea a concrete product idea is one that's specified in enough detail that an engineer can go and build i..."

"I I I find that at AI fun, I ask my team to focus on concrete ideas because um a concrete idea gives clear direction and the team can run really fast to build it and either validate it, prove it out o..."

"one other pattern I've seen, if every piece of new data causes you to pivot, it probably means you're starting off from two weaker a base of knowledge, right? If every time you talk to a customer, you..."

"rapidly. This changes the mechanisms by which we drive startups around this loop. When I think about the software that I do, I maybe put into two major buckets. Sometimes I'll build quick and dirty pr..."

"of course, after it seems to be working, please do make it secure before you ship it to someone else. And you know, like a leaking PI, leaking sense data that that is, you know, very damaging. So befo..."

"quickly while still being responsible. And in terms of the AI assistance uh coding landscape, I think was it three four years ago code autocomplete right popularized by GitHub copilot and then there w..."

"of the latest tools and I find my team is taking really different approaches to software engineing now compared to even three or six months ago. One surprising thing is we we're used to thinking of co..."

"bit beyond software engineering, I I I feel like this actually a good time to empower everyone to build of AI. Uh over the last year, a bunch of people advised others not to learn to code on the groun..."

"productive I want to share with you One lesson I learned as well on on why we should have people learn to do this which is um when I was teaching generative VI for everyone on Corsera, we needed to ge..."

"that for a long time. with software engineering becoming much faster. The other interesting dynamic I'm seeing is that the product management work getting user feedback deciding what features to build..."

"and I find as PMs that can code or engineers with some product instincts often end up doing better. The other thing that I found important for startup found for startup leaders is because engineing is..."

"working a lot of people don't want to be working so we give them excuse to be distracted they're very happy to do that too but I've actually kind of made tons of product decisions in a hotel lobby or ..."

"important. All right, so talked about um concrete ideas, speed up engineering, speed up product feedback. This is one last thing I want to touch on which is I've seen that understanding AI actually ma..."

"things like what accuracy can you get for a customer service chatbot? You know, should you prom fine tune a workflow? Um how do you get a voice out to low latency? There a lot of these decisions that ..."

"One of the things that deep learn does so I actually take a lot of deep learn courses myself you know to because work with great we work with I think like pretty much all the leading AI companies in t..."

"much. [Applause] Happy questions. As AI advances, do you think it's more important for humans to develop the tools or learn how to use the tools better? Like how can we p position ourselves to remain ..."

"Hey, so well first of all uh thank you so much. I have a huge respect for you and I think that you are true inspiration for a lot of us. My question is about uh the future of compute. So as we move to..."

"be done. There's a lot of hype in um AI and how and nobody's really certain about how we're going to be building the future with it. But what are some of the most dangerous biases or overhyped narrati..."

"or beneficial. And I feel like sometimes that the really weird corner cases that get hyped up in the news. I think just one or two days ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about AI losing cont..."

"wonderful speech. Uh, I am a Andagramress researcher from Stanford and I think your uh, metaphor in your speech is very interesting. You said the uh, current AI tools are like bricks and are be uh, an..."

"Thank you so much. In the world of education in AI, there are two paradigms mostly. So one is AI can make teachers more productive. Uh automating grading and automating homeworks. But another school o..."

"is work is complex, right? teachers, students, people do really complex workflows and for the next decade we'll be looking at the work that needs to be done and figuring out how to map it to agentic w..."

"fast and be responsible as you mentioned in your talk look in your heart and if fundamentally what you're building if you don't think it'll make people at large better off don't do it right I I know i..."