No Priors
A venture-focused AI podcast at the intersection of technology, startups, and innovation. Investor co-hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil engage in timely conversations with world-leading AI engineers, researchers, and founders about the big questions in AI today. They discuss how close we are to AGI, which markets are primed for AI disruption, cultural and societal shifts from AI, and the state-of-the-art in research – serving as your guide to the AI revolution.
From Coder to Manager: Navigating the Shift to Agentic Engineering with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last
In this episode, Sarah Guo talks with Notion co‑founder Simon Last about the company’s evolution from a writing assistant to a platform that lets users create autonomous AI agents capable of building integrations and writing code. Simon explains the technical challenges of semantic indexing across disparate data sources like Slack and Google Drive, and how Notion’s internal development now relies on coding agents. He describes the shift in productivity from humans executing tasks to humans managing a swarm of agents, and shares his personal agentic workflows and the impact on team dynamics.
How Capital Is Powering the AI Infrastructure Buildout with Magnetar Capital Managing Director Neil Tiwari
In this episode, Magnetar Capital Managing Director Neil Tiwari explains how his firm finances the massive AI compute infrastructure boom, leveraging its expertise in private credit, real‑estate, and energy assets. He details innovative financing structures—such as SPV debt backed by...
AI and the Future of Warfare with US Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
In this episode, Under Secretary of War Emil Michael explains how the Department of War is deploying a generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, to over a million users within its first month, leveraging models like Gemini and Grok to boost decision‑making...
Scaling Legal AI and Building Next-Generation Law Firms with Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
In this episode, Harvey co‑founder and president Gabe Pereyra explains how the company has scaled to nearly 1,000 enterprise clients by using agentic AI to automate complex legal workflows such as fund formation and M&A, rather than merely boosting individual...
Sunday Robotics: Scaling the Home Robot Revolution with Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi
In this episode, Sarah Guo talks with Sunday Robotics co‑founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi about the emerging "GPT moment" in AI robotics and their flagship product, Memo, a general‑intelligence home robot. They explain how diffusion policy, ACT/ALOHA frameworks, and...
How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
In this episode, Sarah Guo talks with Benchling co‑founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara about the systemic bottlenecks in drug development and how Benchling’s AI‑driven platform is reshaping biotech R&D. Wickramasekara explains how AI agents and simulation can speed up experiments,...
Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy
Snowflake is shifting from a pure data‑warehouse model to an AI‑first strategy with Snowflake Intelligence, an enterprise‑wide agent platform that puts AI assistants in the hands of every employee, not just data teams. In a podcast with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy,...
