Scaling

Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For ft Agency CEO Elias Torres

Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For ft Agency CEO Elias Torres

Elias Torres, co-founder of Drift and Agency, discusses the prevalent expectation mismatch in AI adoption, where businesses demand AI but reject it due to "imperfection anxiety." Drawing from his experiences scaling HubSpot and Drift, he explains why human-led customer experience is fundamentally unscalable and details how his new venture, Agency, is building autonomous, AI-first solutions to solve deep, back-end customer challenges. His goal is to "deprogram the entire business world" from inefficient, human-dependent processes.

#define AI Engineer - Greg Brockman, OpenAI (ft. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA)

#define AI Engineer - Greg Brockman, OpenAI (ft. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA)

Greg Brockman discusses his journey from a math enthusiast to a programmer, his early days scaling Stripe, and the core philosophies that drive OpenAI. He covers the critical partnership between research and engineering, the future of coding with agentic systems, and the immense infrastructure and algorithmic challenges on the path to AGI.

Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam

Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam

Madhavan Ramanujam, a leading expert on monetization, shares a framework for pricing and scaling AI products. He discusses why AI companies can capture 25-50% of the value they create, how to choose the optimal pricing model using a 2x2 of attribution and autonomy, and provides advanced tactics for negotiation and reframing POCs as business case creation.