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The Upstarts Podcast

The Upstarts Podcast

著者： Alex Konrad
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概要

 On The Upstarts Podcast, you’ll hear from some of the most exciting Upstarts today: emerging technology leaders punching above their weight to achieve real impact. Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad profiled leaders from Marc Benioff to Melanie Perkins in a decade-plus at Forbes. Now as the founder and editor of Upstarts Media, he’s sitting down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more. You’ll leave each interview with a new understanding of a world-changing technology that’s transforming how we live and work – as well as strategies and tactics any builder can put to use. マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • Decagon’s Jesse Zhang: Closing Customer Service Doom Loops With AI Concierges

    Decagon’s Jesse Zhang: Closing Customer Service Doom Loops With AI Concierges
    2026/04/10
    When it comes to calling customer support, startup CEO Jesse Zhang knows your pain.  ”It's just a very frustrating experience, because you're stuck in a loop,” he says. In 2023, he and co-founder Ashwin Sreenivas launched Decagon to solve the problem with powerful new technology: AI agents. Today, customers like Avis Budget Group, Duolingo and Fanatics all work with Decagon, helping it reach a $4.5 billion valuation. But as AI unlocks new possibilities in support, Zhang faces serious competition from more established and better-funded rivals. On the Upstarts Podcast, Zhang shares how Decagon wins by using speed as a weapon, but not a moat; why 10x better products can fend off the big AI labs; and how his AI concierge can help future customers beyond just solving problems. Plus, he shares his Upstart Moment: winning uphill sales battles with a bottoms-up hustle that turned “red dots” into green buyers. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:38 Why support was still a problem 05:34 Jesse Zhang’s founder story 15:23 Three pillars of startup strength 16:20 A 10x name and first customers 19:24 Winning with speed and scale 24:20 Jesse’s Upstart Moment in sales 31:35 Why you need to be 10x better 33:43 Revenge of the AI ‘wrapper’ 37:17 Long-running agent ‘duets’ 40:44 Your future concierge For more, visit https://www.upstartsmedia.com/ Season 1 of the Upstarts Podcast is presented by Mercury: https://mercury.com/ Produced & edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod: https://lightningpod.fm/
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    45 分
  • Axiom’s Carina Hong: Solving Math’s Hardest Problems With AI, And AI's Problems With Math

    Axiom’s Carina Hong: Solving Math’s Hardest Problems With AI, And AI's Problems With Math
    2026/04/02
    Just nine months ago, Morgan Prize-winning prodigy Carina Hong was still on an academic track, pursuing a joint law degree and math PhD at Stanford. Now, as the founder of startup Axiom Math, she runs one of the most promising challengers in a new, fast-paced category: AI for math. Recently valued at $1.6 billion, Axiom has already solved some of math’s most challenging problems, and Hong hopes it can help researchers advance the field. Her bigger ambition? To power real-time math-based verification of AI-generated code, to do away with vibe-coded slop. On this episode of The Upstarts Podcast, Hong shares her founder journey from immigrant at MIT to Oxford, and ultimately dropping out of Stanford; how she’s learning as a first-time founder to help Axiom compete in a red-hot new category; and her Upstart Moment when Axiom took the world’s hardest college-level math test. Chapters 00:48 Intro to Carina Hong 2:02 What Axiom Math does 5:51 ‘Math is AGI’ 8:48 Not replacing mathematicians 13:28 Winning the Morgan Prize 17:17 Origins of Axiom 22:22 The new math AI race 25:51 Carina’s Upstart Moment 31:47 Axiom’s business prospects 36:39 Why the future is verified coding For more, visit https://www.upstartsmedia.com/ Season 1 of the Upstarts Podcast is presented by Mercury Produced & edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
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    39 分
  • Harvey's Winston Weinberg: From Law Associate To $11 Billion Legal AI Startup CEO

    Harvey's Winston Weinberg: From Law Associate To $11 Billion Legal AI Startup CEO
    2026/03/26
    Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg operates between two worlds. On one side are highly-trained lawyers who are skeptical about AI’s ability to improve their work. On the other are Silicon Valley technologists who see law as one of the fields that the biggest AI labs, Anthropic and OpenAI, can easily absorb. Co-founded in 2022, Harvey now works with more than 100,000 lawyers across 1,000 businesses, generating $200 million in revenue and recently reaching an $11 billion valuation. On The Upstarts Podcast, Weinberg talks about how a cold email to Sam Altman helped launch Harvey’s journey; why he believes lawyers are a surprise power user of AI tools; and why Anthropic is his biggest threat. Plus, he talks about his Upstart Moment: a never-before-disclosed attempt to “one-shot” company growth that saw Harvey almost merge with another company of equal size in 2024 – only to luckily pull back. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:48 Winston's path to law 2:05 Testing GPT-3 and Sam Altman 7:45 A 'risky' demo 10:42 Investor skepticism 14:23 Near-miss 'one-shot' merger 18:50 Winston's approach to hiring 22:31 Responding to skeptics 29:23 Why you should build in public 31:02 Winning over lawyers 32:46 Anthropic and the competition 35:36 Happy customers beat Twitter love For more, visit https://www.upstartsmedia.com/ Season 1 of the Upstarts Podcast is presented by Mercury Produced & edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
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    37 分
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