Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, shares the journey of building a presentation tool to 100 million users and $100M ARR. He discusses the strategy of being 'different, not just better' than incumbents like Microsoft and Google, the importance of starting with a strong product thesis before integrating AI, and the disciplined 'hire painfully slowly' approach that allowed a small team to achieve massive organic growth.
Giga co-founders Varun and Esha discuss their product-first approach to enterprise AI, detailing their innovative 'AI Forward-Deployed Engineer' model that enables rapid, scalable customer support automation. They break down how they solve complex, multi-party use cases for clients like DoorDash and share their vision for expanding beyond support to become a comprehensive ops automation platform.
Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva, shares the core philosophies that propelled the company to a $42 billion valuation. She details her 'Column B' thinking—building towards a dream future rather than from existing constraints—and explains how setting 'crazy big goals' and systematically learning from over 100 investor rejections were crucial. Perkins also discusses surviving a two-year technical rewrite without shipping features and Canva's foundational 'two-step plan' to build a valuable company and use its wealth to do the most good possible.
In an increasingly digital world, genuine human connection is paramount. This presentation explores the shift in consumer values across seven generations, urging developers to move beyond transactional software and focus on four key pillars: making the user the center of their world (the 'Blue Dot' consumer), exceeding their ever-rising expectations, embracing the 'phygital' reality shaped by AI, and building deep, relational connections, exemplified by Taylor Swift's fan engagement.
The founders of Motion discuss their journey from lucrative seven-figure trading jobs to building a work management platform. They detail a critical pivot away from a successful $20M ARR consumer product to a B2B suite, and their current strategy of embedding "AI employees" directly into workflows, leveraging proprietary data and a unified human-AI task management system.
Dylan Field, co-founder of Figma, discusses the company's origins, the critical role of design in the age of AI, and the future of user interfaces. He argues that as AI simplifies development, design becomes the key differentiator, and we are currently in the "MS-DOS era" of AI interfaces, with significant evolution ahead.