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Cursor

Michael Truell

CEO

Full story

"We are in a market that's had an iPod moment and it's going to have an iPhone moment."

Cursor CEO on Scaling Through 'Mayhem' and the Coming 'iPhone Moment' for AI Coding

OpenAI & Microsoft

Sam Altman & Satya Nadella

CEO of OpenAI & CEO of Microsoft

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"If you want to sell your shares, I'll find you a buyer."

OpenAI and Microsoft Detail Landmark Partnership, Navigate Future of AI and Compute

X, Tesla, xAI

Elon Musk

CTO of X, CEO of Tesla

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"Unfortunately, OpenAI needs to change its name to 'Closed for Maximum Profit AI.'"

Elon Musk on 3 Years of X, The OpenAI Lawsuit, and the 'Supersonic Tsunami' of AI

Perplexity AI

Aravind Srinivas

CEO

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"We're giving everyone the power that billionaires have."

Comet and the race to democratize billionaire-level assistance

Warp

Zach Lloyd

CEO

Full story

"The Turing test has passed, and no one seemed to care."

Distilling intelligence, automated development, and the future of Warp

Telegram

Pavel Durov

Founder and CEO

Full story

"The more pressure I get, the more resilient and defiant I become. I would rather lose everything I have than yield to this pressure."

Pavel Durov on His 'Kafkaesque' French Arrest, Resisting State Pressure, and the Principles of Telegram

Grok

Jonathan Ross

Founder & CEO

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"The countries that control compute will control AI. And you cannot have compute without energy."

The Geopolitics of AI: Compute, Energy, and the New Arms Race

Bolt.new / Stackblitz

Eric Simons

CEO

Full story

"We went from $0.7 million in ARR to $20.7 million in like two months."

Bolt.new CEO on a 'Seven-Year Overnight Success,' Scaling to $20M ARR in Two Months

ElevenLabs

Matty Staniszewski

Co-founder

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"We went 20 months to $100 million in ARR, and then just 10 months to $200 million."

ElevenLabs' Breakneck Growth: Co-Founder Reveals Path to $200M ARR

NVIDIA

Jensen Huang

CEO

Full story

"Everything that moves will be robotic someday and it will be soon."

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on the AI Revolution, 'Time Machines', and a Future Where 'Everything That Moves Will Be Robotic'

Notion

Ivan Zhao

Co-founder & CEO

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"In 2015, we were weeks away from shutting down. We had built a product that nobody wanted."

Building tools for thought: Notion's journey from near-bankruptcy to 100 million users

Anthropic

Dario Amodei

CEO

Full story

"We went from $1.4 billion to $4.5 billion in ARR in just four months."

From OpenAI to Anthropic: Building AI with safety at its core

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