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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers$1 of R&D, 35x the return: why Parker Conrad says platforms beat point solutionsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Rippling CEO on Zenefits, founder psychology, and why shared underlying capabilities—not narrow focus—win in enterprise software.
45:21ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersApplied Intuition Is Worth $15 Billion, Hasn't Spent Its Capital, and Wants to Be the OS for Cars and TanksHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors, Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig explain the Microsoft playbook for vehicles, why they waited for autonomy techniques to converge, and why Waymo's business model is the question that follows the demo.
25:13ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 29, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe AI Table Is Being Cleared: Two or Three Coding Winners, and Forty Years Without a Biotech GiantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through which AI markets have already consolidated, why rival startups still refuse to merge, and the biotech science sitting unused.
40:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDiscovery rates collapsed tenfold. KoBold still found a 5% copper depositHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJosh Goldman explains why KoBold Metals treats mineral exploration as an information problem, pairing AI with century-old maps to hunt lithium and copper.
41:52ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersMercor Hit $100 Million ARR Teaching Models to Hire. Humans Now Write the Exams.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrendan Foody tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Mercor automated recruiting for frontier labs — and why building evals may become the world's most common knowledge job.
27:45ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 3, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNasdaq Down 8% and Ghibli Everywhere: AI Is Already in Inning ThreeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil on the latest image-gen wow cycle, why public-market panic is mostly noise for software startups, and where specialized models still have room.
38:43ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 27, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo in Five Doctors Want Out. An On-Call Cardiologist Built the Note That Lets Them StayHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAbridge CEO Shiv Rao on treating the doctor-patient conversation as healthcare's source of truth, and why the company ran straight at the hardest health systems.
40:33ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 27, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersModerna was only company 18. The real product is the company factoryHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNoubar Afeyan tells No Priors how Flagship Pioneering turned starting companies into a profession, underwrites scientific uncertainty, and wants AI to run discovery the way Waymo drives.
38:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersKyle Vogt Pitched 120 Investors for Cruise. He Will Not Sell the Home-Robot CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Twitch and Cruise co-founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why Tesla won on business model, why chores should be automated, and why a tiny AI-era team is enough.
49:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers86 Out of 100: Harvey's Playbook for Selling AI Into LawHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilWinston Weinberg on a Reddit blind test, expanding-and-collapsing product design, and why Harvey started with century-old firms instead of the mid-market.
27:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 26, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAfter adding $100 billion a month, Jensen Huang says NVIDIA is selling the data centerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil clip their favorite 2024 No Priors conversations into a year-end reel of NVIDIA, Karpathy, Sierra, Sora, Waymo, Figma, and Scale.
31:18ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersElias Torres sold a billion-dollar company and called it a failure. Agency is the redo.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Drift founder wants $1 billion in revenue with 100 people, one email address, and software that works like a text to someone who actually shows up.
44:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 21, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersCohere's Aidan Gomez: The Model Curve Is Flattening, and $20 Million Now Buys GPT-4Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Attention Is All You Need co-author tells No Priors why enterprises should stop waiting for the next model and start putting today's models into production.
29:29ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Week AI Won Its First Nobels, Two Investors Listed Who Is Most at RiskHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil talk NotebookLM, intelligent NPCs, artificial wombs, OpenAI’s o1, and which businesses look AI-durable.
26:08ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 3, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFewer Than 3% of Deals Get Investigated. Selling to the Monopolist Is What Triggers the FTC.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilChair Lina Khan tells No Priors how merger review actually works in AI markets, why open-weight models matter, and why the agency banned most non-competes.
31:29ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRippling skipped the chatbot and stamped employees after 90 days of workHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCOO Matt MacInnis tells No Priors how Talent Signal reads source code, tickets, and customer conversations, then gives managers one calibrated label: high potential, typical, or pay attention.
26:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 12, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAPI prices fell 200x. The LLM table still is not set.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil, with no guest this week, argue over whether the language-model market has already consolidated — and why falling prices, five-person labs, and AMD’s shopping spree all cut against a simple ending.
44:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA perfect demo is ten years from a product you can pay forHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAndrej Karpathy uses Waymo's decade-long gap, Tesla's software bet, and a new AI course to argue that autonomous intelligence will stall at product and globalization, not at the first impressive clip.
48:20ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 15, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNot Spending $100 Is a Hundred Times Better Than a Dollar BackHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRamp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh walk through self-driving money, Iron Man suits for sales, and why they never lead with the word AI.
33:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Weekend Prototype Now Autocompletes a Third of Brex ExpensesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilPedro Franceschi tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a 48-hour GPT-3.5 hack became an assistant for 30,000 companies — and why firing 20,000 customers was a leadership-bandwidth decision.
41:25ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersEven If the Models Froze Today, We've Extracted One-Millionth of the ValueHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAirtable CEO Howie Liu on why a 2012 vision deck still maps the company, why enterprise AI is stuck on imagination, and why codegen will not kill no-code before AGI.
29:12ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersGoldman says AI will touch 5% of tasks. Two investors take the report apartHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil use a host-only No Priors episode to dismantle a June 2024 Goldman Sachs note, then map where they would buy, incubate, and hold.
25:56ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Prompt Cannot Hold a Good Design: Six AI Practitioners at Midyear 2024Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil stitch together clips from Stripe, Figma, Figure, OpenAI's Sora team, Cognition, and Scale into a half-year snapshot of what people actually shipping AI were willing to claim.
39:59ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 23, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFrom $6 million to $30 million ARR in three months: Garry Tan on YC’s AI boomHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Y Combinator president tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why this batch looks like nothing he has seen in twenty years, and why a weak elephant is good news for startups.Load moreShowing 24 of 75