Luis Serrano + Josh Starmer Q&A Livestream!!!
YouTube livestream hosts Luis Serrano and Josh Starmer reunited for a global Q&A, discussing travel, upcoming conferences, and answering viewer questions about learning machine learning. They shared practical learning strategies: embrace being stuck, skim broadly to build domain vocabulary, drill down into key terms, study implementations and code, and work through simple examples to reconcile theory and practice. They also highlighted recent news — the physics Nobel Prize awarded to AI pioneers Jeff Hinton and John Hopfield — and promoted Serrano’s new book. The session was interactive with viewers from multiple countries and included personal anecdotes about persistence in mastering technical topics.
Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447
Founders of Cursor — a VS Code–based editor — describe building an AI-first coding environment after early experiences with GitHub Copilot and GPT-4. They say those models transformed autocomplete into a more interactive, iteration-driven partner, motivating a reimagining of the...
Coaching Call: Developing the Premise and Positioning for Sarah Stockdale, CEO of Growclass
In a coaching session on B2B Storytelling Stars, Jay Acunzo worked with Sarah Stockdale, CEO of Growclass, to define a clear premise for her personal and company brand. They framed a premise as a four-part empathy-agitate-assert-invite statement that should guide...
Stop Guessing and Start Growing with Customer-Led Growth
Customer-led growth is a strategic approach that uses direct customer insights to qualify and quantify value, then operationalize and optimize the end-to-end customer experience. The hosts argue teams should first learn who their best customers are, map and measure those...
SaaS Enterprise Sales Made Easy (5 SIMPLE Steps)
The video outlines a five-step SaaS enterprise sales framework for B2B founders: generate leads through channels like long-form content, social media, paid search, cold email, conferences and integrations; nurture those leads into qualified prospects with targeted content; run discovery-focused sales...
Mastering Communication: Why Speed of Response Trumps Speed of Resolution
When someone asks a question, delaying any reply while you hunt for the answer causes anxiety and uncertainty for the asker. Instead of staying silent until you have a full solution, respond immediately with acknowledgement — e.g., “Good question; I...
The 'Right Now': Mastering the Perfect Timing for Customer Interactions
Presenter introduces the concept of the “Right Now,” a Goldilocks zone of responsiveness for customer interactions where timing is slightly faster than customer expectations. A two-axis chart—trust (vertical) and speed (horizontal)—illustrates reactions from anger when too slow, to satisfaction when...
Why Empathy Is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Lessons From Chewy.com
The speaker argues that empathy, not product range or lowest price, can be a company’s decisive competitive advantage, using Chewy.com as a case study. Chewy reportedly tracks customers who lose a pet and sends personalized gestures — including commissioned oil...
Freemium as a Pricing Strategy Is DISASTROUS (Unless...)
The video argues that freemium is primarily a marketing tactic, not a pricing strategy, and is often a poor default for bootstrapped SaaS startups. The host explains the difference between freemium (forever-limited free use) and time‑limited free trials, and warns...
How to Become a More Effective Storyteller | Jay Acunzo CEX Keynote
Jay Acunzo argues that creators must focus on resonance—not just reach—by shifting from producing content to creating connection that sparks action. He distinguishes good storytellers, who provide clear, tension-driven narratives, from effective storytellers, who additionally bridge to audience meaning and...
Behind-the-Scenes with 3 Marketers Developing Better Stories | B2B Storytelling Stars Episode 1
Host Jay Acunzo, in partnership with Intuit MailChimp, launches a B2B Storytelling Stars miniseries that follows his coaching of three marketers as they develop distinct, ownable premises to differentiate their messages. The episode introduces the participants—Sarah Stockdale (Growclass), who’s balancing...
Jay Acunzo Keynote: How to Ensure Buyers Pick You and Stick With You (Against the Odds)
Jay Acunzo urged marketers and creators to stop chasing objective ‘best’ and commodity content and instead become the irreplaceable favorite for their audience by delivering higher-impact, original work. He contrasted low-value informational content with more powerful instructional and especially insightful...
How to Launch a PROFITABLE SaaS
Serial entrepreneur Rob Walling has launched the SaaS Launchpad, a paid online course that condenses 14 years of startup experience into 27 modules and more than nine hours of content aimed at helping founders move from idea to first paying...
Fall 2024 TinySeed Applications Q&A
TinySeed has opened Fall 2024 applications for its year-long accelerator targeting ambitious B2B SaaS bootstrappers, with a deadline of September 15 and the next cohort starting November 1. The program combines bootstrapper-friendly funding with hands-on mentorship, masterminds, expert-led modules and...
6 Lessons From My MOST SUCCESSFUL Investments in B2B SaaS
After investing in 171 SaaS companies, the speaker identifies six patterns that correlate with fastest growth: a strong, coachable founder in a growing, switch-ready market; a technical founder (or technical co-founder) as a major advantage; viable but temporary use of...
How Might LLMs Store Facts | Deep Learning Chapter 7
Researchers and the video explain how factual knowledge in transformer language models may be stored primarily inside the feedforward multi-layer perceptron (MLP) blocks rather than attention. Using a toy example—how the fact “Michael Jordan plays basketball” could be encoded—the presenter...
Features Vs. Benefits: How to Maximize the Impact of Your Messaging
On the Forget the Funnel podcast, product marketing leaders argue that the common advice to “sell benefits, not features” is often misapplied. They say B2B companies frequently replace distinctive product capabilities with vague business outcomes on homepages, which erases differentiation...
Customer Stories for B2B SaaS that Slays
A product marketer at Unid described two simple changes that improved their B2B SaaS customer stories page: adding browseable use-case categories and embedding personalized CTAs tied to individual customer quotes. The categories let visitors filter 30–40 case studies by relevant...
How to Find Your FIRST 10 SaaS Customers (6 PROVEN Strategies)
The video lays out practical, repeatable strategies for landing the first 10 customers for a B2B SaaS startup, emphasizing marketing before coding and targeting a specific ideal customer profile (ICP) rather than building a general audience. Key tactics include creating...
POV: You’re Running a $96M / Year Business
The founder and CEO of a ~$96M/year business walks viewers through a reflective day, emphasizing lifestyle design over constant hustle. He discusses the tension between creating authentic content and chasing views or revenue, and stresses patience as a leadership principle...
Your A/B Tests Suck: The Key to Running Effective Experiments
Mark Thomas argues that A/B testing is an overused, often misleading default in SaaS growth work because it only optimizes behavior within the confines of an existing page or funnel and usually delivers marginal, statistically trivial wins. He likens excessive...
Program Overview: Embrace Complaints & Boost Your Business
The program argues that rising customer complaints are an underused growth lever and offers a research-backed framework for turning dissatisfaction into competitive advantage. Drawing on proprietary research and examples from a best-selling author’s work with major brands, it explains who...
Program Overview: Ignite a Word of Mouth Wave
Ignite a Word of Mouth Wave is a program that teaches businesses how to intentionally create customer-driven promotion by turning satisfied customers into volunteer marketers. The presenter argues that word of mouth—already influencing over half of purchases—is becoming more valuable...
Program Overview: Time Is Money: How to Exceed Customers' Need for Speed
The program 'Time is Money: How to Exceed Customers' Need for Speed' presents research showing responsiveness drives revenue—two-thirds of customers now value speed as much as price and over half choose the first responder regardless of cost. The host argues...
Program Overview: Quick Clear Kind: The 3 Unbreakable Laws of Customer Loyalty
The presenter argues that customer experience is not a single switch but the sum of many daily decisions, and firms should prioritize the elements that drive loyalty. Based on proprietary research and work with major brands, the program identifies three...
7 CRUCIAL Things Every SaaS Landing Page Should Have (with Examples)
The video walks founders through seven essential elements for high-converting SaaS landing pages, starting with a concise, benefit-driven H1, a clarifying H2, and a prominent above-the-fold CTA or email capture. After launch, pages should add product screenshots or mockups, founder...
Human Stories in AI: Abbas Merchant@Matics Analytics
Abbas Merchant, founder and CEO of Matics Analytics, traced his journey from dropping out of school to join his family’s electronics retail and distribution business, through a return to formal education, to ultimately founding an AI-and-analytics company. Confronted by the...
5 Small Changes To Improve Your SaaS Product FOREVER
The video outlines five practical, high-impact adjustments SaaS founders can make: revisit pricing and value metrics (including tier spacing and annual defaults) to boost revenue and cash flow; remove signup friction (shorten forms, social logins, reconsider credit-card requirements) to increase...
Luis Serrano + Jay Alammar + Josh Starmer Q&A Livestream!!!
AI educators Luis Serrano, Jay Alammar and Josh Starmer held a live Q&A discussing the origins and teaching philosophies behind their popular channels. Each described starting from niche, workplace-focused tutorials—Josh teaching statistics to genetics colleagues, Serrano and Alammar producing course...
7 Surprising SaaS Trends Every Founder Must Know in 2024
A new State of Independent SaaS report, based on surveys of nearly 700 mostly bootstrapped founders, highlights several counterintuitive trends for 2024. Companies with three co‑founders show notably higher month‑over‑month growth than solo founders or duos, while teams of four...
Coding a ChatGPT Like Transformer From Scratch in PyTorch
In a hands‑on tutorial, StatQuest walks through building a decoder‑only Transformer (the architecture behind ChatGPT) from scratch in PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning. The video covers creating a minimal token vocabulary and dataset for two prompt–response pairs, mapping tokens to IDs,...