Jul 24, 2026

How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud

Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel shares his journey, emphasizing the company's evolution from a DevOps insight to a public tech giant. He discusses the resilience required to overcome early rejections, his hands-on leadership style focused on raw customer feedback, and how Datadog is rapidly adapting to the AI revolution by prioritizing automation and faster iteration in product development and internal processes. Pomel also offers candid advice on co-founder relationships and the critical importance of moving quickly in both hiring and firing.

Jul 14, 2026

Why the Best AI Stories Aren't About AI (with Steve Mock)

Steve Mock, investor and entrepreneur, discusses aisavedme.org, a platform born from his father's question, "How does one use AI?". The site gathers real-world stories of AI's positive impact, revealing surprising human outcomes in healthcare, education, and personal fulfillment, often less about technology and more about connection. He also shares his unique no-code journey in building the site and his venture capital insights into the "data flywheel" and "vertical AI" as key to successful investments.

Jul 08, 2026

What do we build now? — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg

Theo Browne's keynote from AIEWF2026 urges software engineers to fundamentally change product development in response to rapidly evolving AI models (Sonnet 3.5 to Mythos). He advocates for rejecting legacy mental models and tools (skeuomorphism), embracing a new "Markdown tier" for projects, and thinking "wider" instead of just "deeper" by building extensible platforms that can challenge industry giants. The core message is to be more ambitious, as AI has drastically lowered the barrier to entry for complex, broad-reaching solutions.

Jun 27, 2026

India Can Create The Largest AI Companies

This panel from Startup School India explores why India's technical talent is poised to lead the global AI wave, challenging traditional career advice. It highlights Y Combinator's focus on young, high-agency founders who leverage AI for rapid prototyping and embrace 'second mover advantage' to build global companies, emphasizing customer obsession and relentless resourcefulness.

Jun 25, 2026

Full Stack Greenfield Projects : Are they still relevant?

Bharat Goenka, co-founder of Tally, discusses the company's unconventional approach to software development through "Full Stack Greenfield" projects. He explains why building every component from scratch, despite being a high-risk strategy, has been crucial for Tally's success in serving the SMB market, fostering extreme customer loyalty, and aspiring to connect 200 million businesses. The talk delves into the historical context, the philosophy of questioning and choosing constraints, and the distinction between product and custom engineering.

Jun 25, 2026

Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It

Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, discusses the product philosophy behind "Life at the Speed of Play," focusing on consumer innovation in the AI age. He introduces the "Proven, Better, New" framework, shares insights on founder mode, and predicts a future where "intelligence on tap" driven by free AI compute will unlock unprecedented opportunities for new "internet treasures," despite current investor skepticism in the consumer space.