Rong Yan is the Chief Technology Officer at HeyGen, the AI video platform making visual storytelling accessible to everyone. He leads the company's engineering and AI strategy as HeyGen builds generative AI tools that enable businesses and creators to produce studio-quality videos, AI avatars, and multilingual content at scale. Before joining HeyGen, Rong served as Vice President of Engineering at HubSpot, where he led the Data Intelligence and Automation organization, building AI-powered CRM products and intelligent business automation tools. Earlier, he was CTO of Verishop and spent more than five years at Snapchat, leading product engineering for core experiences including Camera, Messaging, Stories, Discover, Memories, and Identity across an organization of more than 250 engineers. He also held engineering leadership roles at Square and Facebook, giving him deep experience scaling consumer platforms, AI systems, and enterprise software. Rong earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is a prolific AI researcher with more than 60 publications and 35 patents spanning machine learning, computer vision, multimedia analysis, and large-scale data mining.Topics

• The future of AI video: how generative AI is transforming visual storytelling, content creation, and digital communication
• Building AI products at global scale: lessons from HeyGen, HubSpot, Snapchat, Facebook, and Square
• From computer vision to generative AI: applying decades of AI research to build the next generation of creative tools

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Chris Farmer is the Founder and CEO of SignalFire, one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firms built around proprietary data and AI.~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~Since founding the firm in 2013, he has pioneered a data-driven approach to venture investing, backing category-defining companies across enterprise software, AI, infrastructure, and consumer technology. SignalFire combines machine learning, proprietary talent data, and operational support to help founders build and scale high-growth companies. Before launching SignalFire, Chris was a Venture Partner at General Catalyst, where he established the firm's California office and led early investments in companies including Stripe, Coinbase, Discord, Fivetran, Zapier, Venmo, ClassDojo, and Alation. Earlier, he was a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, a consultant at Bain & Company, and a successful entrepreneur who led the turnaround of SkyBitz into a profitable SaaS business that was later acquired. Chris has also published research on venture capital in Harvard Business Review and other leading journals, bringing decades of experience at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and investing.Topics

• How AI is transforming venture capital: building a data-driven investment firm for the next generation of startups
• Lessons from backing Stripe, Coinbase, Discord, and other category-defining companies at the earliest stages
• What founders need to build AI-native companies that scale from seed stage to market leadership

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William Sun is the Co-Founder and CEO of Auctor AI, the AI-native system of action for the entire software implementation lifecycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~Auctor helps systems integrators and ISV professional services teams automate discovery, design, delivery, and deployment, enabling faster implementations, greater efficiency, and more predictable outcomes. Teams can manage the full implementation lifecycle on a single platform, from pre-sales and discovery through go-live. The company recently raised $20 million led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from M12, HubSpot Ventures, Workday Ventures, Y Combinator, and others, and works with partners across major enterprise ecosystems including ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, AWS, HubSpot, Atlassian, and OneStream. He is building an AI orchestration layer to modernize one of enterprise software's largest and most complex markets: software implementation and delivery.Topics

• What a "frictionless" future in enterprise software implementation look like?
• How Auctor stand apart from companies: The "Niche & Deep" strategy.
• The "secret sauce" in an AI-driven implementation process.

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