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AI may be your secret sauce, but it's not the whole meal. To succeed, you still need to nail the fundamentals - product, UX, brand, marketing, distribution - just like any other company. Precisely because AI is so accessible, and with new AI-powered apps and products launching daily, those fundamentals matter more than ever, especially in the consumer-facing space. “It's so easy for people to b...

No matter what happens (and stuff will happen!), keep your users’ needs and the actual problem you're trying to solve for them front and center. “Always focus on the problem,” Renate Nyborg advises. “Focus on what it is that people need from you. LLMs have given us an incredible toolkit, but…it's up to us to then build that data set and build a product that is able to help people navigate that ...

On The Next Great Thing podcast, Renate Nyborg shares her founder journey and the lessons she's learned along the way. With pre-seed funding from Ng's AI Fund, she was able to ramp up Meeno fast and develop the app with his team of NLP engineers, fine-tuning LLMs with training data from real conversations with relationship experts and dating coaches.

WindBorne didn't take off overnight (pun intended). John and Kai spent five years prototyping their weather balloon designs for a student project at the Stanford Student Space Initiative before even considering starting a company. This prototyping phase, though unglamorous, was crucial to sharpening their domain expertise. The first balloon, what Kai affectionately dubbed "a giant flying cabbag...

It’s not every day you talk to founders who spent years prototyping at the Stanford Student Space Initiative, worked at SpaceX, and launched a venture-backed, AI-powered weather intelligence startup. But that’s WindBorne Systems Co-Founders John Dean and Kai Marshland. They join our CEO Andrew Greenstein on ‘The Next Great Thing’ podcast to share how WindBorne’s smart weather balloons first too...

Can a technical agency partner help you level up your tech game? What key qualities in an agency should you look for? We asked Silicon Valley veteran, ex-Googler, and two-time startup founder Arvind Jain. He’s the Co-Founder and CEO of Glean, an AI-powered workplace search assistant. Arvind taps into tech agency firepower when his team needs someone with a specialized skill set for a short peri...

Video that you can talk to? For real?! For real. Devo Harris, Founder & CEO of Adventr, an AI-powered smart video platform, has built it. He joins ‘The Next Great Thing’ podcast to share how Adventr is creating connected, interactive, hyper-personalized experiences at scale across the web, ad networks, and social media. Devo also wins the award for Most Fascinating Backstory™️ we’ve ever heard ...

We’re with the incredible Nancy Xu, named to TIME’s inaugural #TimeAI100 list and the visionary founder of Moonhub. Nancy shares how her experience as a first-generation immigrant has fueled her passion for expanding access to opportunities. Her journey from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) to starting a traditional recruiting agency turned Moonhub into what it is today: an AI-po...

May Habib, Co-Founder and CEO of Writer, a full-stack enterprise generative AI platform, joins Andrew Greenstein on ‘The Next Great Thing’ podcast. May walks us through her fascinating founder journey (this isn’t her first company!) and the series of aha moments that led her to launch the company. She also explains how and why Writer’s built its own LLMs (called Palmyra), early customers (shout...

Keith Peiris, Co-Founder and CEO of Tome, the generative presentation platform used by 10M people, joins Andrew Greenstein to explain how Tome helps anyone turn ideas into compelling, persuasive stories in seconds - whether it's an investor pitch deck, a wedding invitation, or a classroom presentation. Tome's story stems from early pandemic prototypes to viral growth after incorporating generat...

How does The New York Times uphold 171 years of innovation? By designing for time well spent. Georg Petschnigg, Head of Product Design at The Times, joins ‘The Next Great Thing’ podcast to give a behind-the-scenes look at product design innovation inside one of the world’s most iconic and respected newsrooms. He explains how his team combines design, technology, and journalism to create compell...

There’s a reason Brex earned the #2 spot on this year's CNBC Disruptor50 list: scaling fast but smart. Brex Co-Founders & Co-CEOs Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi join ‘The Next Great Thing’ podcast to share their incredible founder story - from hacking in high school to founding Pagar.me (“basically the Stripe of Brazil”) to launching Brex, the global corporate credit card and spend mana...

Can we detox social media? Noam Bardin is trying. The Post News founder (& ex-Waze CEO) joins Andrew Greenstein on 'The Next Great Thing' podcast to explain how Post is increasing access to fact-based journalism by realigning platform incentives. Listen to the episode: bit.ly/3FhqFlO

AI can generate content galore, but it lacks personal context. Marissa Mayer joins ‘The Next Great Thing’ podcast to explain why the next generation of AI assistants will be more useful with access to deeper levels of personal information (only then will it be able to tell you the best birthday gift for your dad, not generic suggestions!). This is an area she and her team at Sunshine are explor...

2023 SF AppWorks Generative AI Internal Hackathon

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What could happen if you DON'T do rapid prototyping in software development