Intercom's bot approves PRs 5x faster
Good morning. The human code review bottleneck is forcing teams to auto-approve low-risk PRs.
The proliferation of AI coding tools has created a massive bottleneck at the human review stage. To clear the backlog, Intercom built an internal AI agent that scores pull requests for blast radius and auto-approves low-risk changes. The result is a 3x increase in throughput and PRs merging five times faster than human reviews.
Build it tonight
Intercom proved this works, speeding up approvals 5x. A solo founder could build a GitHub App MVP this weekend to score PR blast radius.
Developer Tools
AI PR risk-scoring and auto-approval bot
An AI agent that scores pull requests for blast radius and security risk, automatically approving low-risk changes to unblock engineering teams drowning in AI-generated code.
Why now: The proliferation of AI coding tools means engineers are drowning in AI-created PRs, creating a severe bottleneck at the human review stage.
Discussing: Engineering teams using AI coding tools that generate high volumes of pull requests.
“Intercom has 2x, 3x their PR throughput... they built a PR review agent that scores their PRs and then auto approves them... AI approved PRs are approved faster, actually five times faster than their human PRs.”
OpportunityInstead of forcing humans to review the massive influx of AI-generated PRs, use AI to score risk and auto-approve low-risk changes, which actually lowers revert rates.
Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve · Aug 5, 2026
Sanity check: What would have to be true: engineering leaders trust an LLM's blast-radius assessment enough to bypass human review on production code.
Build it without code
Traditional liquidators reject $2k estates. Aggregating 15 of them into a $30k weekend warehouse sale at 50% commission is a brilliant, scrappy physical-world wedge.
physical-world infra
Aggregated warehouse estate sales for small estates
Aggregate 15 to 30 small estates that traditional liquidators reject into a single massive weekend warehouse sale using lot-number tracking.
Why now: Existing estate sale companies are overwhelmed with leads and actively turn away smaller estates, creating an immediate supply of unmonetized inventory.
Discussing: Small estates with $1,000 to $2,000 worth of items that do not qualify for traditional in-home estate sales.
“instead of having an estate sale for one estate that has like $2,000 worth of stuff, we would start accumulating 10, 15, 20 estates... What that evolved into is a $20,000, $25,000, $30,000 weekend sale with 30 different estates, which brought in tons of people.”
OpportunityTraditional estate sale companies reject small estates because they aren't profitable to run on-site. Aggregating them creates a highly profitable, high-foot-traffic retail event.
$25K/Weekend Business You Can Start With No Money - Ep. #324 · Aug 7, 2026
Sanity check: What would have to be true: the labor and logistics of transporting and tracking inventory from 30 different homes don't erase the commission margin.
Today's Startup Ideas
Specific plays distilled from this week's founder/operator podcasts.
Developer Tools
AI PR risk-scoring and auto-approval bot
An AI agent that scores pull requests for blast radius and security risk, automatically approving low-risk changes to unblock engineering teams drowning in AI-generated code.
Why now: The proliferation of AI coding tools means engineers are drowning in AI-created PRs, creating a severe bottleneck at the human review stage.
physical-world infra
Aggregated warehouse estate sales for small estates
Aggregate 15 to 30 small estates that traditional liquidators reject into a single massive weekend warehouse sale using lot-number tracking.
Why now: Existing estate sale companies are overwhelmed with leads and actively turn away smaller estates, creating an immediate supply of unmonetized inventory.
B2B SaaS
Hardware-fronted vertical SaaS
A bootstrapped founder hit $1M ARR by selling commercial-grade POS hardware upfront to laundromats to cover CAC, followed by high-margin software subscriptions.
Why now: Vertical SaaS is increasingly competing with VC-funded giants; hardware bundling offers a bootstrapped path to negative CAC.
Private Equity
Prosumer SaaS Holding Company
Acquire slow-growing, single-player SaaS tools at 2.7x ARR and right-size the teams to run them as cash-flowing assets rather than venture-backed unicorns.
Why now: The SaaS bust has left many single-point solutions unable to raise at previous multiples, forcing them to accept value-based buyouts.
consumer brand
Trunk-Show Distribution for Premium Kids Wear
Bypass ineffective influencer marketing for high-end children's apparel by using local trunk shows and WhatsApp groups to build a neighborhood-level customer base.
Why now: Rising customer acquisition costs on social media are forcing premium brands to return to high-touch, community-led sales channels.
Venture Capital
Solo Founder Tech Accelerator
An accelerator offering seed money and mentorship exclusively to solo tech founders in exchange for equity.
Why now: AI tools are replacing the need for co-founders and early engineering hires, leading to a 5x spike in solo founder accelerator applications.
service productization
AI-Staged Furniture Arbitrage
Buy poorly photographed couches on local marketplaces, use ChatGPT to replace the background with a high-end living room, and relist at a premium.
Why now: Generative AI image models can now flawlessly replace backgrounds while keeping the foreground object intact, democratizing high-end staging.
vertical AI tooling
AI-powered class action discovery tool
A subscription data tool for plaintiff lawyers that ingests public permits, ingredients, and compliance certificates to automatically identify potential class action lawsuits.
Why now: LLMs are now capable of parsing massive volumes of unstructured regulatory and compliance data to find actionable legal discrepancies.
service productization
Corporate Improv Workshops for Team Building
A brewery owner found his most profitable revenue stream was selling corporate improv workshops, realizing he was underpricing legacy competitors by 80 percent.
Why now: Companies are seeking in-person team-building exercises to improve communication and trust, especially as remote work creates siloed teams.
physical-world infra
Domestic drone motor and battery manufacturing
Manufacturing drone motors and batteries in the US to capture the $5B flowing into domestic production following FCC bans on foreign-produced drones.
Why now: The FCC recently added foreign-produced drones to the covered list, instantly creating a multi-billion dollar vacuum for domestic component suppliers.
physical-world infra
Software-Defined Drone Motor Manufacturing
Drive the cost of hardware iteration to zero by using internal software to co-design motor platforms and standardize raw material inputs.
Why now: Regulatory shifts banning Chinese components in drones and missiles are forcing the rapid reshoring of the US industrial base.
physical-world infra
Factory-as-a-Service for Defense Primes
Build and operate highly automated, design-agnostic factories for defense and aerospace companies, allowing them to outsource the entire manufacturing stack.
Why now: The US is desperately short on manufacturing capacity for defense tech, and new policies are accelerating the adoption of automated, reshored production.
financial services
Social media settlement bond financialization
Model and purchase indefinite revenue streams from state-level social media addiction settlements, providing states with immediate lump-sum cash for infrastructure.
Why now: Juries are beginning to award massive settlements (e.g., $900M in New Mexico, $27M in Kentucky) against social media companies for youth harm.
Cybersecurity
Machine-Speed Vulnerability Patching Engine
An automated remediation platform that patches software vulnerabilities at machine speed to defend against AI models discovering and weaponizing exploits.
Why now: The release of models like Anthropic's Mythos/Fable is drastically accelerating the pace of vulnerability discovery and weaponization.
DevSecOps
Open-Source Grayware Behavioral Scanner
A security scanner that flags anomalous but non-malicious behaviors in open-source dependencies, like establishing remote access terminals.
Why now: The volume of open-source dependencies is exploding, and static signature-based malware scanning misses risky but technically legitimate code.
DevSecOps
CI/CD Credential Federation Service
A credential federation service that issues short-lived credentials for GitHub Actions to prevent CI/CD supply chain attacks.
Why now: Supply chain attacks exploiting long-lived CI/CD credentials are now happening daily.
Private Equity / Roll-up
AI-driven SaaS roll-up holding company
Acquire stalled SaaS companies at low multiples, replace 80 percent of headcount with AI tools, and double pricing to drive massive profitability.
Why now: SaaS multiples have crashed, leaving many companies with product-market fit but bloated cost structures ripe for AI automation.
service productization
Wholesale Micro-Wedding Marketplace
Package local wedding vendors into standardized elopement tiers by securing 40-50 percent wholesale discounts in exchange for handling all customer acquisition and sales.
Why now: Traditional weddings average $30,000, driving consumer demand for elopements, while independent vendors increasingly want to outsource the customer acquisition grind.
Developer Tools
Terminal-Native Agentic Development Environments
Build AI coding agents directly into the terminal rather than the IDE, using the command line as the primary interface for instructing the computer.
Why now: The shift from manual code editing to agentic engineering requires interfaces optimized for command execution and multitasking rather than text manipulation.
B2B SaaS
Performance-priced AI-native CRM
An AI CRM that auto-updates via Slack and email integrations, charging customers based on performance rather than traditional per-seat SaaS fees.
Why now: AI can now autonomously update records and find accounts, shifting software from a passive tool to an active worker.
Physical-world infra
Single-task inspection robots for shipyards
Build single-task robots to automate mandatory safety checks, like shaking scaffold joints or scanning paint thickness, which currently takes 1,000 human hours per ship.
Why now: Labor shortages mean companies physically cannot staff mandatory compliance and inspection roles, creating immediate demand for automated alternatives.
Movements to Watch
Patterns surfacing across multiple shows. Track these before consensus.
B2B SaaS
Private equity pivots to AI-driven margin expansion.
Buyers are acquiring stalled single-player software companies at low multiples, replacing headcount with automation, and running them as cash-flowing assets rather than venture-backed unicorns.
Physical-world infra
Regulatory bans force rapid reshoring of defense components.
Federal restrictions on foreign-produced hardware have created a multi-billion dollar vacuum, driving startups to build software-defined factories and domestic drone motor supply chains.
DevSecOps
Security shifts from human patching to automated remediation.
As language models accelerate the discovery and weaponization of software exploits, enterprise defense teams are abandoning manual reviews in favor of machine-speed patching and short-lived credential federation.
Founder Signal
How operators are thinking — frameworks, anti-patterns, sharp moves.
Ditch influencers for hyper-local trunk shows.
Premium consumer brands are finding that social media acquisition costs are too high for niche products. Shifting to neighborhood-level pop-ups and private messaging groups converts better by letting buyers experience physical quality.
B2B budgets are less price-sensitive than consumer wallets.
A local operator realized he was underpricing his team-building workshops by 80 percent compared to national competitors. Corporate clients expect higher price tags, allowing local vendors to drastically increase margins without losing bids.
Capital Flow
Where money's moving today — funding rounds, M&A, valuation signals.
Accelerators launch dedicated tracks for solo operators.
Capital allocators are recognizing that AI tools replace the need for early engineering hires, leading to a massive spike in applications for programs funding single-operator startups.
Investment firms financialize social media settlements.
Banks are offering state governments immediate lump-sum cash in exchange for the indefinite revenue streams generated by incoming youth addiction lawsuits against major tech platforms.
From the Conversations
Machine-Speed Vulnerability Patching Engine
AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply Chain
Aug 4, 2026 · 57m · 3 quotes pulled
▶ Listen“This will find tons of vulnerabilities that other models probably haven't found yet. And folks need to be prepared to patch things at machine speed because you could already weaponize vulnerabilities at machine speed.”
“The release of models like Anthropic's Mythos/Fable is drastically accelerating the pace of vulnerability discovery and weaponization.”
AI-powered class action discovery tool
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, Snap Rips, Ads in BMW | Grace Li, Samir Kaji, John Quinn, Nikhil Reddy, Art Levy & Russell Kaplan, Brendan Carr
Aug 4, 2026 · 2h 30m · 2 quotes pulled
▶ Listen“hoover up all the data available. Like permits, ingredients... compliance certificates... And they also ingest all the regulations and rules. And they will identify claims and class actions. And you can subscribe to this.”
“LLMs are now capable of parsing massive volumes of unstructured regulatory and compliance data to find actionable legal discrepancies.”
Software-Defined Drone Motor Manufacturing
SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong, Intel's Comeback, Dylan Field Joins | Aditya Agarwal, Ariane Gorin, Nick Thompson, Chris Power, Christian Mochen
Aug 6, 2026 · 2h 47m · 2 quotes pulled
▶ Listen“leveraging internal software systems that actually co-design the motor platforms that we build and inject it across our manufacturing operations. And then we standardize all our raw material inputs to actually make that changeover process pretty simple.”
“Regulatory shifts banning Chinese components in drones and missiles are forcing the rapid reshoring of the US industrial base.”
Sources
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Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve<p>AI writes most of my code now, and that created a new problem: a PR queue I couldn’t keep up with. In this episode, I walk through how I built Merge Mommy, a Vercel Eve agent that reads every PR after checks pass, scores it across six risk dimensions, auto-approves the low-risk ones, and pings me in Slack for anything that needs a human. I built the whole thing in one Codex session, it’s SOC 2 compatible, and it’s already cleared my backlog.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>What you’ll learn:</strong></p><ol><li>Why AI-generated PRs create a review bottleneck and why the answer isn’t reviewing all of them</li><li>How Intercom 5x’d PR approval speed and reduced revert rates by putting AI in the review loop</li><li>Why Vercel Eve is the simplest framework I’ve found for deploying AI agents in Slack and GitHub</li><li>How I built a full PR review agent in Codex with one prompt and a few steering turns</li><li>The six components I use to score PR risk (blast radius, reversibility, data security, ops impact, verification gap, and change surface)</li><li>How I used Chrome browser use to handle Slack bot and GitHub app configuration so I never had to click through setup screens manually</li><li>Why auto-approved PRs can be SOC 2 compliant as long as the process is auditable, queryable, and in your risk policy</li><li>How to set up Slack escalation so low-risk PRs become a two-click merge with no manual review</li></ol><p>—</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p><a href="https://workos.com/?utm_source=lennys_howiai&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=q22025" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WorkOS</a>—Make your app Enterprise Ready today</p><p>—</p><p><strong>In this episode, we cover:</strong></p><p>(00:00) The PR review backlog problem nobody’s talking about</p><p>(02:35) Why you don’t have to review every AI-generated PR</p><p>(05:14) How Intercom built AI-approved PRs (and proved they’re safer)</p><p>(06:10) How the Eve framework works (directory, skills, channels, connectors)</p><p>(09:16) The Codex prompt I used to build the entire bot</p><p>(11:36) What the agent actually does: read, score, approve, or escalate</p><p>(13:07) Setting up your Eve agent</p><p>(15:47) The six-component risk scoring model</p><p>(17:23) Merge Mommy in action: three live PR examples</p><p>(21:10) Recap and how to build your own version</p><p>—</p><p><strong>Tools referenced:</strong></p><p>• Vercel Eve: <a href="https://vercel.com/eve" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vercel.com/eve</a></p><p>• Vercel AI SDK: <a href="https://sdk.vercel.ai/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sdk.vercel.ai/</a></p><p>• Vercel Chat SDK: <a href="https://chat-sdk.dev/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://chat-sdk.dev/</a></p><p>• Codex (OpenAI): <a href="https://openai.com/codex" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://openai.com/codex</a></p><p>—</p><p><strong>Other references:</strong></p><p>• AI is approving our pull requests: Here’s how we made it safe:<a href="https://www.intercom.com/blog/ai-is-approving-our-pull-requests-heres-how-we-made-it-safe/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.intercom.com/blog/ai-is-approving-our-pull-requests-heres-how-we-made-it-safe/</a></p><p>—</p><p><strong>Where to find Claire Vo:</strong></p><p>ChatPRD: <a href="https://www.chatprd.ai/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.chatprd.ai/</a></p><p>Website: <a href="https://clairevo.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://clairevo.com/</a></p><p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/</a></p><p>X: <a href="https://x.com/clairevo" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/clairevo</a></p><p>—</p><p>Production and marketing by <a href="https://penname.co/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://penname.co/</a>. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email [email protected].</p>
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$25K/Weekend Business You Can Start With No Money - Ep. #324<p>Check out my newsletter at <a href="https://tkopod.com/">https://TKOPOD.com</a> and join my community at <a href="https://tkowners.com/">https://TKOwners.com</a></p><p>━</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>I sat down with <strong>Braden Harman</strong> and we broke down how he built an <strong>estate sale business</strong> that can be started with almost no money and quickly became a six-figure operation. We talked about how estate sales work, what to charge, how to find your first clients, and why the aging <strong>Baby Boomer</strong> generation is creating a huge opportunity in this space. Braden also explained how he eventually realized the estate sale business was an even better <strong>lead-generation machine for off-market real estate deals</strong>, helping him acquire dozens of properties.</p><p><br></p><p>You can learn more about Braden and his strategy at <a href="FlippingCouches.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>FlippingCouches.com</strong></a>, find local estate sales at <a href="EstateSales.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>EstateSales.net</strong></a>, and check out the business-in-a-box option he mentioned at<a href="EstateSaleBiz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"> <strong>EstateSaleBiz.com</strong></a>.</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>---</p><p>Watch this on <strong>YouTube</strong> instead here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice?sub_confirmation=1">tkopod.co/p-yt</a></p><p><strong>Ask me a question</strong> on or off the show here: <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-ask">http://tkopod.co/p-ask</a></p><p>Learn more about <strong>me:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-cjk">http://tkopod.co/p-cjk</a></p><p>Learn about <strong>my company: </strong><a href="http://tkopod.co/p-cof">http://tkopod.co/p-cof</a></p><p>Follow me on <strong>Twitter</strong> here: <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-x">http://tkopod.co/p-x</a></p><p><a href="http://tkopod.co/p-x"></a>Free weekly <strong>business ideas newsletter:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-nl">http://tkopod.co/p-nl</a></p><p><strong>Share this podcast:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-all">http://tkopod.co/p-all</a></p><p><strong>Scrape</strong> small <strong>business data:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-os">http://tkopod.co/p-os</a></p><p><a href="http://tkopod.co/p-os"></a>---</p>
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Episode 844 | Building a $1M+ ARR SaaS for LaundromatsWhat does it take to build a seven figure SaaS in a market almost no one thinks about? In this episode, Rob Walling sits down with Brian Henderson, co-founder of Wash-Dry-Fold POS, to walk through the 10-year arc of building it in one of the most overlooked markets there is: laundromats. From selling other people's hardware as a scrappy reseller, to teaching himself to rebuild the entire product on no-code during COVID, to competing head-on against a rival that has raised $220 million in venture capital, Brian shares why staying bootstrapped became his biggest advantage. Episode Sponsor: What if you could go from idea to your first real user in 30 days? Not a prototype, not a promise, but an actual working app. Designli will put that in writing. Their TractionLab is a 90-day plan that takes you from idea to first paying customers. By Day 30, v1 of your app is in your users' hands, guaranteed. Miss that deadline and your next month is free. It starts with a free 30-minute call where you share your idea and they tell you exactly what they'll build and what it costs. No surprises. You get a full senior team: product owner, engineering lead, full-stack developer, senior UX designer, and solutions architect. They use AI to ship faster, but senior engineers own every architecture decision and review every line of code. The result is yours, and it's built to last. Go from idea to revenue in 90 days: designli.co/gettraction Topics we cover: (2:41) – What software for laundromats actually does (5:41) – Hitting seven figures with seven people (6:33) – Bootstrapping with only $100 (7:39) – Why no laundromat software existed (10:18) – Starting as a value-added reseller (18:35) – Rebuilding on Bubble during COVID (24:56) – Running a large no-code SaaS (31:28) – Hardware as a competitive moat (33:43) – Competing against a VC-backed rival (39:32) – Selling hardware to cover CAC Links from the show: TinySeed Accelerator | Join our email list - Applications open in September 2026 Wash-Dry-Fold POS Bubble Coaching No Code Apps Not Quite Unicorns Wash-Dry-Fold POS | Facebook Brian Henderson | LinkedIn If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you'd like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify
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Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple Over Lawsuit, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN<p>Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after.</p><p><br></p><p>Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella.</p><p><br>TBPN is made possible by:</p><p>Ramp - https://ramp.com</p><p>Public - https://public.com</p><p>Cisco - https://www.cisco.com</p><p>Console - https://www.console.com</p><p>CrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.com</p><p>Figma - https://www.figma.com</p><p>MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com</p><p>NYSE - https://www.nyse.com</p><p>Railway - https://railway.com</p><p>Shopify - https://www.shopify.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Follow TBPN: </p><p>https://TBPN.com</p><p>https://x.com/tbpn</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231</p><p>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive</p>
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Advice Line: "Strategy Sessions"Today’s callers: Tony in Michigan is considering bringing on partners to run different parts of his brew pub and theater business. Then Monica in London is exploring the best way to reach style-conscious parents with her line of children’s clothes. And Sandy in Colorado is seeking the ideal pricing strategy to bring his adaptive test prep platform to schools nationwide.Thank you to the founders of Hearsay Brewing and Theater, Tres London and Brain Buffs for being a part of our show.If you’d like to be featured on a future Advice Line episode—where Guy and former show guests take questions from early-stage founders—leave us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and a specific question you’d like answered. Send a voice memo to [email protected] or call 1-800-433-1298. And be sure to listen to our Advice Line episodes with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation, Sarah LaFleur of M.M LaFleur and Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics.This episode was produced by Kerry Thompson with music by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Jimmy Keeley.You can follow HIBT on X & Instagram and sign up for Guy’s free newsletter at guyraz.com or on Substack. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner
He's 17 and Makes $300/Hour Flipping Couches - Ep. #323<p>Open a <strong>Bluevine Business Checking account</strong>, earn up to <strong>3.0% APY</strong>, and get a <strong>$500 cash bonus</strong> when you apply with code <strong>CJK500</strong> and meet the eligibility requirements: <a href="https://www.bluevine.com/partner/chris-koerner" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.bluevine.com/partner/chris-koerner</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Read Bluevine’s full AI study:</strong><br><a href="https://www.bluevine.com/blog/small-business-ai-trends-report-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.bluevine.com/blog/small-business-ai-trends-report-2026</a></p><p><br></p><p>━</p><p><br></p><p>Check out my newsletter at <a href="https://tkopod.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://TKOPOD.com</a> and join my community at <a href="https://tkowners.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://TKOwners.com</a></p><p>━</p><p><br></p><p>I sat down with <strong>17-year-old Bentley Taggart</strong>, who is averaging around <strong>$200 / $300 per hour flipping couches</strong> in his spare time. He broke down how he finds poorly listed couches, negotiates sellers down, and uses <strong>AI-generated backgrounds</strong> to make them look more valuable online. Bentley also shared how he bought one couch set for <strong>$100 and sold it for $1,580</strong>, turning his money into nearly <strong>15X</strong> in less than a day. We talked about what types of listings to look for, how to negotiate better deals, and why this is a side hustle almost anyone can start. You can follow Bentley on Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bentleyhustles/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/bentleyhustles/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>---</p><p>Watch this on <strong>YouTube</strong> instead here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice?sub_confirmation=1" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">tkopod.co/p-yt</a></p><p><strong>Ask me a question</strong> on or off the show here: <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-ask" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://tkopod.co/p-ask</a></p><p>Learn more about <strong>me:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-cjk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://tkopod.co/p-cjk</a></p><p>Learn about <strong>my company: </strong><a href="http://tkopod.co/p-cof" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://tkopod.co/p-cof</a></p><p>Follow me on <strong>Twitter</strong> here: <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-x" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://tkopod.co/p-x</a></p><p><a href="http://tkopod.co/p-x" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"></a>Free weekly <strong>business ideas newsletter:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-nl" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://tkopod.co/p-nl</a></p><p><strong>Share this podcast:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-all" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://tkopod.co/p-all</a></p><p><strong>Scrape</strong> small <strong>business data:</strong> <a href="http://tkopod.co/p-os" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://tkopod.co/p-os</a></p><p><a href="http://tkopod.co/p-os" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"></a>---</p>
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TBPN
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, Snap Rips, Ads in BMW | Grace Li, Samir Kaji, John Quinn, Nikhil Reddy, Art Levy & Russell Kaplan, Brendan Carr<p></p><ul><li>(01:04) - Bending Spoons Buys Airtable </li> <li>(17:14) - Snap Earnings </li> <li>(27:02) - Apple Escalates OpenAI Lawsuit </li> <li>(31:08) - Ads in BMW </li> <li>(40:34) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions </li> <li>(44:25) - Grace Lee, co-founder and CEO of Intelligence, discusses how Design Arena uses human preferences to improve AI-generated designs, games, and websites. She outlines the company’s vision for an intelligence marketplace and creative superintelligence that can turn ideas into real-world outputs with minimal friction. </li> <li>(59:27) - Samir Kaji, co-founder and CEO of Allocate, discusses the rapid growth of private markets, Allocate’s role connecting wealth advisors with private funds, and the risks of soaring AI valuations. He also examines emerging venture funds, solo general partners, public-market investing, and the dangers of leverage in venture capital. </li> <li>(01:20:59) - John Quinn discusses his successful appeal representing Perplexity against Amazon and the emerging legal challenges surrounding agentic AI, including contracts, liability, copyright, and unauthorized access. A prominent trial lawyer and founder of Quinn Emanuel, he also examines AI’s transformative impact on legal practice, data-center disputes, and litigation strategy. </li> <li>(01:49:31) - Nikhil Reddy discusses founding Kaizen in 2022 after working as an early engineer at Anduril, with the goal of modernizing outdated government software. He highlights Kaizen’s new counter-drone marketplace, which streamlines procurement for defense agencies, law enforcement, and allied nations while improving speed, usability, and taxpayer value. </li> <li>(01:59:06) - Art Levy & Russell Kaplan. Art discusses his new role as Cognition’s vice president of global partnerships, drawing on his experience building alliances and partner ecosystems. He explains how deep partnerships can drive sales, integrations, co-marketing, and acquisitions while helping Cognition expand globally and attract talented founders. </li> <li>(02:13:12) - Brendan Carr discusses his work as FCC chairman to strengthen U.S. technology and national security while reducing regulatory barriers. He covers restrictions on foreign-made robotics and drones, safer electronics testing, school screen time, satellite internet, and efforts to streamline FCC rules and approvals.</li> </ul><p><br></p><p>TBPN is made possible by:</p><p>Ramp - https://ramp.com</p><p>Public - https://public.com</p><p>Cisco - https://www.cisco.com</p><p>Console - https://www.console.com</p><p>CrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.com</p><p>Figma - https://www.figma.com</p><p>MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com</p><p>NYSE - https://www.nyse.com</p><p>Railway - https://railway.com</p><p>Shopify - https://www.shopify.com</p><p>Codex - http://openAI.com/codex</p><p><br></p><p>Follow TBPN: </p><p>https://TBPN.com</p><p>https://x.com/tbpn</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231</p><p>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tbpn/id1772360235</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive</p>
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SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong, Intel's Comeback, Dylan Field Joins | Aditya Agarwal, Ariane Gorin, Nick Thompson, Chris Power, Christian Mochen<p></p><ul><li>(04:00) - OpenAI Details Hugging Face Incident </li> <li>(12:36) - SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong </li> <li>(20:05) - Nikita Bier Steps Down at X </li> <li>(25:44) - Google Rewires AI Leadership </li> <li>(30:15) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions </li> <li>(36:14) - Intel's Comeback </li> <li>(56:51) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions </li> <li>(01:00:02) - Aditya Agarwal, managing partner at South Park Commons, discusses its new $575 million fund and the growing ambition of founders building capital-intensive deep-tech companies. He also covers founder dilution, AI-assisted application review, Series A fundraising, scientific diligence, and the importance of technical progress and rapid growth. </li> <li>(01:16:00) - Ariane Gorin, CEO of Expedia Group and a former Microsoft executive, discusses strong travel demand and Expedia’s growth despite economic uncertainty and rising prices. She explains how Expedia is using AI to personalize trip planning, improve productivity, expand partnerships with AI platforms, and build toward a personal travel-agent experience. </li> <li>(01:35:47) - Nick Thompson discusses his role as CEO of The Atlantic and his strategy for growing subscriptions through trusted, high-quality journalism. He explores print’s enduring value, evolving approaches to video and Substack talent, and how AI may reshape journalism, audience behavior, and the broader media ecosystem. </li> <li>(02:04:47) - Chris Power, founder and CEO of advanced manufacturing company Hadrian, discusses the company’s $1.37 billion raise and rapid expansion of its factories-as-a-service model for major defense and aerospace customers. He explains Hadrian’s full-stack approach to building and operating highly automated factories, its growing U.S. footprint, and its role in accelerating the adoption of emerging manufacturing technologies. </li> <li>(02:17:13) - Christian Mochen discusses founding Atlas Motion, a company developing motion systems for autonomous and robotic platforms, beginning with small drone motors. Drawing on experience at Toyota, Tesla, Shield AI, and Mach Industries, he explains the company’s $11.5 million seed round, software-driven manufacturing strategy, operations in Manila, and plans to bring cost-competitive production to the United States. </li> <li>(02:22:23) - Dylan Field discusses Figma’s strong growth, rising AI adoption, and the growing importance of design as coding becomes increasingly commoditized. The Figma co-founder and CEO explains how the company is developing AI tools that preserve human creativity and control while expanding its platform across design, code, and production workflows.</li> </ul><p><br></p><p>TBPN is made possible by:</p><p>Ramp - https://ramp.com</p><p>Public - https://public.com</p><p>Cisco - https://www.cisco.com</p><p>Console - https://www.console.com</p><p>CrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.com</p><p>Figma - https://www.figma.com</p><p>MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com</p><p>NYSE - https://www.nyse.com</p><p>Railway - https://railway.com</p><p>Shopify - https://www.shopify.com</p><p>Codex - http://openAI.com/codex</p><p><br></p><p>Follow TBPN: </p><p>https://TBPN.com</p><p>https://x.com/tbpn</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231</p><p>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tbpn/id1772360235</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive</p>
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AI Viruses, OpenAI's First Device, WSJ Mansion Section | Samir Kaul, Patrick Wendell, Grant LaFontaine<p></p><ul><li>(01:31) - AI Viruses </li> <li>(08:18) - OpenAI's Device Takes Shape </li> <li>(16:39) - Meta Faces Major Child Safety Case </li> <li>(25:25) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions </li> <li>(36:10) - WSJ Mansion Section </li> <li>(43:41) - Samir Kaul, a general partner at Khosla Ventures, discusses the firm’s investment in Jeff Dean’s Discovery Loop and its potential to apply AI to scientific research with tangible outcomes. He also shares his views on AI regulation, inflated private-market valuations, venture capital strategy, founder support, and the importance of taking bold risks to generate exceptional returns. </li> <li>(01:09:45) - Patrick Wendell discusses his role as Databricks co-founder and VP of Engineering, where he leads AI products and internal AI adoption. He explains how AI coding tools can nearly double engineering capacity while creating rapidly escalating consumption costs, and highlights model switching, intelligent routing, and optimization as key ways to control spending without sacrificing productivity. </li> <li>(01:27:30) - Grant Lafontaine discusses Whatnot’s $500 million Series E funding round at a $20 billion valuation and the live-shopping platform’s rapid growth. He explains how authentic, knowledgeable sellers can build substantial businesses with small audiences, while outlining Whatnot’s focus on customer experience, new markets, product categories, and future streaming formats. </li> <li>(01:44:17) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions</li> </ul><p><br></p><p>TBPN is made possible by:</p><p>Ramp - https://ramp.com</p><p>Public - https://public.com</p><p>Cisco - https://www.cisco.com</p><p>Console - https://www.console.com</p><p>CrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.com</p><p>Figma - https://www.figma.com</p><p>MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com</p><p>NYSE - https://www.nyse.com</p><p>Railway - https://railway.com</p><p>Shopify - https://www.shopify.com</p><p>Codex - http://openAI.com/codex</p><p><br></p><p>Follow TBPN: </p><p>https://TBPN.com</p><p>https://x.com/tbpn</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231</p><p>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tbpn/id1772360235</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive</p>
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AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply Chain<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Open source software underpins virtually every modern application. That ubiquity is a superpower for developers, but it is also an expanding attack surface. Software supply chain attacks were once rare but are now happening daily, with malicious actors exploiting the trust developers place in public registries, package managers, and CI/CD pipelines.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.chainguard.dev/">Chainguard</a> is a secure software supply chain platform. The company started with hardened container images and has expanded to cover domains including VMs, language libraries, GitHub Actions, and agent skills.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://x.com/mattomata">Matt Moore</a> is a co-founder and CTO of Chainguard, and a veteran of Google’s open source, container, and security infrastructure work. In this episode, Matt joins Gregor Vand to discuss lessons from recent supply chain attacks, why CI/CD pipelines are now a primary attack surface, the challenge of meaningful software inventories, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and what the arrival of Anthropic’s Mythos model means for the pace of vulnerability discovery and the urgency of patching at machine speed.<br><br>Sponsorship inquiries:<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/ai-powered-threats-to-the-software-supply-chain/">AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply Chain</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com">Software Engineering Daily</a>.</p>
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Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321<p dir="ltr">This Week In Startups is made possible by:</p> <p dir="ltr">Vanta<br /> <a href= "https://www.vanta.com/twist">https://www.vanta.com/twist</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Agree<br /> <a href="https://agree.com">https://agree.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Odoo<br /> <a href="https://odoo.com/twist">https://Odoo.com/twist</a></p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Today's show:</p> <p dir="ltr">*Airtable just sold for $2.25 billion, an 81% drop from its peak of $11.7 billion. On this week's TWiST VC Roundtable, Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons), Niko Bonatsos (Verdict Capital), and Rick Heitzmann (FirstMark Capital) break down why the venture world sees this as a good outcome, not a financial disaster.</p> <p dir="ltr">By declining the deal, would Airtable's team have just been delaying the inevitable? Is the fact that they reached $400M+ ARR on its own a reason to celebrate? Find out why our investor panel prefers unwinding a stuck situation rather than chasing a growth rate that's no longer sustainable.</p> <p dir="ltr">PLUS Robinhood's booming prediction market business, the secondary market flap over Anduril shares, why so many VCs shy away from "vice" categories, and a glimpse at how insiders are talking about the Apple-OpenAI lawsuit.</p> <p dir="ltr">Guests</p> <p dir="ltr">Aditya Agarwal on X: <a href= "https://x.com/adityaag">https://x.com/adityaag</a></p> <p dir="ltr">South Park Commons: <a href= "https://www.southparkcommons.com/apply">https://www.southparkcommons.com/apply</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Niko Bonatsos on X: <a href= "https://x.com/bonatsos">https://x.com/bonatsos</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Verdict Capital: <a href= "https://verdictcap.com/">https://verdictcap.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Rick Heitzmann on X: <a href= "https://x.com/rick">https://x.com/rick</a></p> <p dir="ltr">FirstMark Capital: <a href= "https://firstmark.com/">https://firstmark.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Relevant Links</p> <p dir="ltr">Airtable: <a href= "https://www.airtable.com/">https://www.airtable.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Bending Spoons announces Airtable acquisition: <a href="https://investors.bendingspoons.com/newsroom/bending-spoons-agrees-to-acquire-airtable"> https://investors.bendingspoons.com/newsroom/bending-spoons-agrees-to-acquire-airtable</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Constellation Software: The Anti-Conglomerate: <a href="https://www.eaglepointcap.com/blog/constellation-software-the-anti-conglomerate"> https://www.eaglepointcap.com/blog/constellation-software-the-anti-conglomerate</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Introducing Robinhood Ventures Fund II: <a href= "https://robinhood.com/us/en/newsroom/introducing-rvii/">https://robinhood.com/us/en/newsroom/introducing-rvii/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Quartz: Robinhood posted record quarterly revenue: <a href= "https://qz.com/robinhood-record-revenue-prediction-markets-earnings-073026"> https://qz.com/robinhood-record-revenue-prediction-markets-earnings-073026</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Riot Games: <a href= "https://www.riotgames.com/en">https://www.riotgames.com/en</a></p> <p dir="ltr">AngelList's USVC Fund: <a href= "https://usvc.com/">https://usvc.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Baseten: <a href= "https://www.baseten.co/">https://www.baseten.co/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">OpenEvidence: <a href= "https://www.openevidence.com/">https://www.openevidence.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Hermes Agent: <a href= "https://hermes-agent.org/">https://hermes-agent.org/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Granola: <a href= "https://www.granola.ai/">https://www.granola.ai/</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><br /> Timestamps:</p> <p dir="ltr"><br /> 0:00 VC intros & Bending Spoons buys Airtable</p> <p dir="ltr">9:19 Why growth is the only metric that matters</p> <p dir="ltr">9:45 Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://www.vanta.com/twist</p> <p dir="ltr">20:52 Agree.com - Stop chasing invoices and automate your entire contract-to-cash stack. Go to https://agree.com and tell them Jason sent you to get 50% off for life!</p> <p dir="ltr">26:25 When should VCs sell in secondary markets?</p> <p dir="ltr">30:55 Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Get started for free at https://Odoo.com/twist</p> <p dir="ltr">35:38 Robinhood's prediction markets are exploding</p> <p dir="ltr">43:13 The USVC-Anduril secondary controversy</p> <p dir="ltr">46:18 How VC firms use open source models</p> <p dir="ltr">58:43 Telling the real founders from the grifters</p> <p dir="ltr">1:02:38 Why Apple is suing OpenAI</p> <p dir="ltr"><br /> <br /> Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: <a href= "https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com">https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out the TWIST500: <a href= "https://www.twist500.com">https://www.twist500.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: <a href= "https://rb.gy/v19fcp">https://rb.gy/v19fcp</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Lon:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://x.com/lons">https://x.com/lons</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Alex:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://x.com/alex">https://x.com/alex</a></p> <p dir="ltr">LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Jason:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Jason">https://twitter.com/Jason</a></p> <p dir="ltr">LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out all our partner offers: <a href= "https://partners.launch.co/">https://partners.launch.co/</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Great TWIST interviews: <a href= "https://youtu.be/pvJa2pzuXWQ">Will Guidara,</a> <a href= "https://youtu.be/9dHN4YFkgv4">Eoghan McCabe</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-on-mod-revolt-building-a/id315114957?i=1000617333424"> Steve Huffman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-on-early-rejection-customer/id315114957?i=1000611761112"> Brian Chesky</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/y2UMzSqX94Q">Bob Moesta,</a> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/box-ceo-aaron-levie-breaks-down-box-ai-and-generative/id315114957?i=1000612384545"> Aaron Levie</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sophia-amoruso-on-branding-raising-a-fund-portfolio/id315114957?i=1000601352978"> Sophia Amoruso</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/reid-hoffman-on-ais-crescendo-moment-regulation-and/id315114957?i=1000612548498"> Reid Hoffman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snowflake-ceo-frank-slootman-on-moving-the-needle-win/id315114957?i=1000602560622"> Frank Slootman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/billy-mcfarland-on-fyre-fest-fraud-failure-hacking/id315114957?i=1000610922577"> Billy McFarland</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: <a href= "https://substack.com/@calacanis">https://substack.com/@calacanis</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow TWiST:</p> <p dir="ltr">Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/TWiStartups">https://twitter.com/TWiStartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">YouTube: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin">https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Instagram: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups">https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">TikTok: <a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups">https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Substack: <a href= "https://twistartups.substack.com">https://twistartups.substack.com</a></p>
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Ep 558 $6M Wedding Marketplace Courted The Knot for 4 Years with Janessa White<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135206105 BCX0"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW135206105 BCX0"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW135206105 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "font-claude-response-body" data-ccp-parastyle-defn= "{"ObjectId":"679f3b2c-153b-5071-bf1d-4b0991a9f682|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"1",201342449,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",201341986,"1",469769226,"Times New Roman",268442635,"24",469775450,"font-claude-response-body",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"font-claude-response-body",335572020,"1",335559740,"240",201341983,"0",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}"> In 2016, Janessa White and her business partner started Simply Eloped, a marketplace that planned elopements and small weddings for couples in 35 cities across the United States. They also decided, before they had a single customer, which company they wanted to sell it to. The Knot Worldwide, the largest wedding platform in the world.</span><span class= "EOP Selected SCXW135206105 BCX0" data-ccp-props= "{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW135206105 BCX0"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW135206105 BCX0"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW135206105 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "font-claude-response-body">Over the next seven years, White told The Knot exactly that, met with their corporate development team every quarter for four years, and shared her revenue and margins with them along the way. When she finally emailed to say she was ready, the letter of intent arrived within a week.</span></p> </div>
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Software Engineering Daily
The Terminal as an Agentic Interface<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The terminal has been a constant in software development for decades. It has remained largely unchanged while everything around it transformed. However, as AI agents have become central to the developer workflow, the terminal is emerging as a natural home for agentic development, and a new category of tooling is forming around it.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.warp.dev/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.warp.dev/">Warp</a> is a popular Rust-based terminal and agentic development environment. The company recently open-sourced its codebase and launched Oz, its cloud agent infrastructure product aimed at helping enterprises automate software development at scale.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://x.com/zachlloydtweets">Zach Lloyd</a> is the co-founder and CEO of Warp, and a former principal engineer at Google where he led engineering on the Google Docs suite. In this episode, Zach joins Gregor Vand to discuss how Warp has evolved over the years, why the terminal is better suited than the IDE for agentic development, how Oz approaches the governance and auditability challenges enterprises face with AI agents, and more.<br><br>Sponsorship inquiries:<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/the-terminal-as-an-agentic-interface/">The Terminal as an Agentic Interface</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com">Software Engineering Daily</a>.</p>
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How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322<p dir="ltr">This Week In Startups is made possible by:</p> <p dir="ltr">DigitalOcean<br /> <a href="https://do.co/twist">https://do.co/twist</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Sentry<br /> <a href="https://sentry.io/twist">https://sentry.io/twist</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Lightfield<br /> <a href="https://lightfield.app">https://lightfield.app</a></p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Today's show:</p> <p dir="ltr">A hedge fund just blew up shorting SaaS stocks. In turns out, the software companies that went all in on AI are bouncing back. Figma's CEO — still riding high on strong revenue — forfeited roughly $46 million in stock awards to ease investor nerves. Twilio posted its strongest quarter in years. Airbnb's CEO credits AI as the single biggest factor in the company's incredible turnaround.</p> <p dir="ltr">Jason and Lon break down what's separating the winners this earnings season from the companies that are falling behind.</p> <p dir="ltr">PLUS we're chatting with Bluecore Energy CEO and founder Kofi Asante about his plan to power ports, and one day AI data centers, with small, floating nuclear reactors.</p> <p dir="ltr">AND we're kicking off the TWiST Weight Loss Challenge! Co-host Lon and Jason's brother, Jamie, are both starting GLP-1s. We'll track their progress and follow along as they attempt to collect $15,000 EACH in prize money.</p> <p dir="ltr">Guest</p> <p dir="ltr">Kofi Asante on LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kofiasante1/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kofiasante1/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Bluecore Energy: <a href= "https://www.bluecore.energy/">https://www.bluecore.energy/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Jamie Calacanis on X: <a href= "https://x.com/CalacanisJamie">https://x.com/CalacanisJamie</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Relevant Links</p> <p dir="ltr">Bloomberg: Figma CEO forfeits $46M: <a href= "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/figma-ceo-forfeits-46-million-in-stock-after-share-decline"> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/figma-ceo-forfeits-46-million-in-stock-after-share-decline</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Twilio announces second quarter 2026 results: <a href= "https://investors.twilio.com/news-releases/news-release-details/twilio-announces-second-quarter-2026-results"> https://investors.twilio.com/news-releases/news-release-details/twilio-announces-second-quarter-2026-results</a></p> <p dir="ltr">TechCrunch: Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion: <a href= "https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/area-man-twilio-co-founder-jeff-lawson-buys-the-onion"> https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/area-man-twilio-co-founder-jeff-lawson-buys-the-onion</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Chesky: Airbnb will spend a lot more on AI: <a href= "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/chesky-airbnb-ai-earnings.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/chesky-airbnb-ai-earnings.html</a></p> <p dir="ltr">"Unreasonable Hospitality" by Will Guidara on Amazon: <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Unreasonable-Hospitality-Remarkable-Giving-People/dp/0593418573"> https://www.amazon.com/Unreasonable-Hospitality-Remarkable-Giving-People/dp/0593418573</a></p> <p dir="ltr">The Times: Meet the unreasonable hospitality master who inspired "The Bear": <a href= "https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-sunday-times-magazine/article/will-guidara-hospitality-the-bear-tkgzqz33w"> https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-sunday-times-magazine/article/will-guidara-hospitality-the-bear-tkgzqz33w</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Port of Long Beach partnership on nuclear-powered shipping: <a href= "https://gcaptain.com/port-of-long-beach-marad-launch-first-u-s-partnership-on-nuclear-powered-shipping/"> https://gcaptain.com/port-of-long-beach-marad-launch-first-u-s-partnership-on-nuclear-powered-shipping/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Reuters: ByteDance targets mega AI model: <a href= "https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-targets-mega-ai-model-nearing-anthropics-mythos-ft-reports-2026-08-07/"> https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-targets-mega-ai-model-nearing-anthropics-mythos-ft-reports-2026-08-07/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Axios: OpenAI says its AI agents breached its own systems before Hugging Face: <a href= "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-hugging-face-black-hat">https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-hugging-face-black-hat</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House: <a href= "https://franklloydwright.org/site/ennis-house/">https://franklloydwright.org/site/ennis-house/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Dwell: Why "The Studio" built a faux Frank Lloyd Wright HQ: <a href= "https://www.dwell.com/article/the-studio-apple-tv-filming-locations-production-design-frank-lloyd-wright-john-lautner-97c68081"> https://www.dwell.com/article/the-studio-apple-tv-filming-locations-production-design-frank-lloyd-wright-john-lautner-97c68081</a></p> <p dir="ltr">"Predators" documentary trailer: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVZkvpAJjI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVZkvpAJjI</a></p> <p dir="ltr">A24 "Primetime" trailer: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fHXyqQOKL8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fHXyqQOKL8</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Alex Honnold free solos Taipei 101: <a href= "https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/sport/alex-honnold-taipei-101-free-solo-netflix-intl-hnk"> https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/sport/alex-honnold-taipei-101-free-solo-netflix-intl-hnk</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="http://harmonic.ai">Harmonic.ai</a>: <a href= "https://harmonic.ai/">https://harmonic.ai/</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="http://ro.co">Ro.co</a>: <a href= "http://ro.co/twist">http://ro.co/twist</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Timestamps:</p> <p dir="ltr">0:00 Figma, Twilio & Airbnb earnings: who's winning at AI?</p> <p dir="ltr">9:50 DigitalOcean - Head to https://do.co/twist to start building on DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud today — and cut your AI workload costs by up to 50%.</p> <p dir="ltr">11:32 The real cost of stock-based compensation</p> <p dir="ltr">17:38 Kofi Asante of Blue Core Energy joins the show</p> <p dir="ltr">19:47 Sentry - Your team should be focused on shipping features — not chasing down bugs. New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to https://sentry.io/twist and use the code TWIST</p> <p dir="ltr">20:51 What is a small modular reactor (SMR)?</p> <p dir="ltr">26:00 Floating nuclear reactors for ports and data centers</p> <p dir="ltr">29:47 Lightfield - Name one person who's ever enjoyed updating a CRM. Exactly. Lightfield's AI agent does it for you — it even prospects and books your meetings. Used by thousands of startups. Free at https://lightfield.app</p> <p dir="ltr">31:56 Nuclear waste, submarine risks, and public perception</p> <p dir="ltr">42:41 The generational shift in how we think about nuclear</p> <p dir="ltr">48:19 ByteDance is training a 10 trillion parameter model</p> <p dir="ltr">53:47 When AI models plan heists: the Hugging Face caper</p> <p dir="ltr">58:02 Jason's Roko weight loss competition</p> <p dir="ltr">1:11:38 Off duty: To Catch a Predator, Alex Honnold, and comedy</p> <p><strong><br /> <br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: <a href= "https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com">https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out the TWIST500: <a href= "https://www.twist500.com">https://www.twist500.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: <a href= "https://rb.gy/v19fcp">https://rb.gy/v19fcp</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Lon:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://x.com/lons">https://x.com/lons</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Jason:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Jason">https://twitter.com/Jason</a></p> <p dir="ltr">LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out all our partner offers: <a href= "https://partners.launch.co/">https://partners.launch.co/</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Great TWIST interviews: <a href= "https://youtu.be/pvJa2pzuXWQ">Will Guidara,</a> <a href= "https://youtu.be/9dHN4YFkgv4">Eoghan McCabe</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-on-mod-revolt-building-a/id315114957?i=1000617333424"> Steve Huffman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-on-early-rejection-customer/id315114957?i=1000611761112"> Brian Chesky</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/y2UMzSqX94Q">Bob Moesta,</a> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/box-ceo-aaron-levie-breaks-down-box-ai-and-generative/id315114957?i=1000612384545"> Aaron Levie</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sophia-amoruso-on-branding-raising-a-fund-portfolio/id315114957?i=1000601352978"> Sophia Amoruso</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/reid-hoffman-on-ais-crescendo-moment-regulation-and/id315114957?i=1000612548498"> Reid Hoffman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snowflake-ceo-frank-slootman-on-moving-the-needle-win/id315114957?i=1000602560622"> Frank Slootman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/billy-mcfarland-on-fyre-fest-fraud-failure-hacking/id315114957?i=1000610922577"> Billy McFarland</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: <a href= "https://substack.com/@calacanis">https://substack.com/@calacanis</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow TWiST:</p> <p dir="ltr">Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/TWiStartups">https://twitter.com/TWiStartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">YouTube: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin">https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Instagram: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups">https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">TikTok: <a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups">https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Substack: <a href= "https://twistartups.substack.com">https://twistartups.substack.com</a></p>
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How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320<p dir="ltr">This Week In Startups is made possible by:</p> <p dir="ltr">Odoo<br /> <a href="https://odoo.com/twist">https://Odoo.com/twist</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Quo<br /> <a href="https://quo.com/TWiST">https://quo.com/TWiST</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Northwest Registered Agent<br /> <a href= "https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist">https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist</a></p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Today's show:</p> <p dir="ltr">*Before Bespoke's "travel concierge" chatbot could actually hold a conversation, founder/CEO Akemi Tsunagawa and her team quietly answered customers themselves. That "fake it till you make it" strategy paid off. Bespoke landed Narita Airport as a customer based on the strength of their "chatbot" answers, and now the team runs three companies, and is expanding into shipyard robots.</p> <p dir="ltr">In the fourth and final edition of TWiST Tokyo for Summer '26, Jason and Akemi discuss her thesis: "solve the labor gap first, [then] build the tech to math." Plus insights into Japan's tourism boom, how founders should consider the country's accelerating population decline, the economics and politics of importing foreign labor, and why AI may already be taking over more jobs than you think.</p> <p dir="ltr">Guest</p> <p dir="ltr">Akemi Tsunagawa on X: <a href= "https://x.com/AkemiTsunagawa">https://x.com/AkemiTsunagawa</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Bespoke: <a href= "https://www.be-spoke.io/">https://www.be-spoke.io/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Bebot: <a href= "https://www.bebot.io">https://www.bebot.io</a></p> <p dir="ltr">BeTrained: <a href= "https://www.be-spoke.io/en/be-trained">https://www.be-spoke.io/en/be-trained</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Relevant Links</p> <p dir="ltr">Disrupting Japan: "Silicon Valley Has Chatbots All Wrong": <a href= "https://www.disruptingjapan.com/silicon-valley-has-chatbots-all-wrong-heres-how-they-really-make-money/"> https://www.disruptingjapan.com/silicon-valley-has-chatbots-all-wrong-heres-how-they-really-make-money/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">CNN on Japan's population decline: <a href= "https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/asia/japan-biggest-population-decline-record-intl-hnk"> https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/asia/japan-biggest-population-decline-record-intl-hnk</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Paul Graham: "Do Things That Don't Scale": <a href= "https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html">https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Wispr Flow: <a href= "https://wisprflow.ai/">https://wisprflow.ai/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">TripAdvisor: <a href= "https://www.tripadvisor.com/">https://www.tripadvisor.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">KPMG on Japan's Business Manage Visa Reforms: <a href= "https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/gms-flash-alert/flash-alert-2025-195.html"> https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/gms-flash-alert/flash-alert-2025-195.html</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Business Traveller on the "Akiya" renovation trend: <a href= "https://www.businesstraveller.com/insights/features/japan-akiya-boom-buying-abandoned-homes/"> https://www.businesstraveller.com/insights/features/japan-akiya-boom-buying-abandoned-homes/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">THR on the 2004 satirical film "A Day Without a Mexican": <a href= "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/a-day-without-a-mexican-20-years-later-1236293209/"> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/a-day-without-a-mexican-20-years-later-1236293209/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Founder University x Japan: <a href= "https://tokyo.founder.university/">https://tokyo.founder.university/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">JETRO: <a href= "https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/">https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Antler in Japan: <a href= "https://www.antler.co/location/japan">https://www.antler.co/location/japan</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Timestamps:<br /> <br /></p> <p dir="ltr">0:00 Founder U Japan Cohort 3: Coming in Jan 2027!</p> <p dir="ltr">1:06 Introducing Akemi Tsunagawa, founder of Bespoke</p> <p dir="ltr">3:08 Why investors passed in 2015</p> <p dir="ltr">4:49 Selling Narita Airport on Bebot</p> <p dir="ltr">6:29 The roots of Japan's tourism explosion</p> <p dir="ltr">9:27 Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Get started for free at https://Odoo.com/twist</p> <p dir="ltr">14:17 Japan's population decline, by the numbers</p> <p dir="ltr">20:06 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at https://quo.com/TWiST</p> <p dir="ltr">21:38 Training foreign workers via smart glasses</p> <p dir="ltr">27:50 Northwest Registered Agent - Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity — Learn more at https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist</p> <p dir="ltr">33:06 Moving into shipyard robotics, too?</p> <p dir="ltr">37:44 Some customer development lessons</p> <p dir="ltr">48:21 Plans for even more expansion</p> <p dir="ltr">52:52 Q&A: How AI changed hiring</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: <a href= "https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com">https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out the TWIST500: <a href= "https://www.twist500.com">https://www.twist500.com</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: <a href= "https://rb.gy/v19fcp">https://rb.gy/v19fcp</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Lon:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://x.com/lons">https://x.com/lons</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Alex:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://x.com/alex">https://x.com/alex</a></p> <p dir="ltr">LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Jason:</p> <p dir="ltr">X: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Jason">https://twitter.com/Jason</a></p> <p dir="ltr">LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out all our partner offers: <a href= "https://partners.launch.co/">https://partners.launch.co/</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Great TWIST interviews: <a href= "https://youtu.be/pvJa2pzuXWQ">Will Guidara,</a> <a href= "https://youtu.be/9dHN4YFkgv4">Eoghan McCabe</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-on-mod-revolt-building-a/id315114957?i=1000617333424"> Steve Huffman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-on-early-rejection-customer/id315114957?i=1000611761112"> Brian Chesky</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/y2UMzSqX94Q">Bob Moesta,</a> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/box-ceo-aaron-levie-breaks-down-box-ai-and-generative/id315114957?i=1000612384545"> Aaron Levie</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sophia-amoruso-on-branding-raising-a-fund-portfolio/id315114957?i=1000601352978"> Sophia Amoruso</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/reid-hoffman-on-ais-crescendo-moment-regulation-and/id315114957?i=1000612548498"> Reid Hoffman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snowflake-ceo-frank-slootman-on-moving-the-needle-win/id315114957?i=1000602560622"> Frank Slootman</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/billy-mcfarland-on-fyre-fest-fraud-failure-hacking/id315114957?i=1000610922577"> Billy McFarland</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: <a href= "https://substack.com/@calacanis">https://substack.com/@calacanis</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow TWiST:</p> <p dir="ltr">Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/TWiStartups">https://twitter.com/TWiStartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">YouTube: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin">https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Instagram: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups">https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">TikTok: <a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups">https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Substack: <a href= "https://twistartups.substack.com">https://twistartups.substack.com</a></p>
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