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Sequoia Capital· Sep 1, 2026PodcastAfter Two Dozen Police Departments Said No, They Built an Anti-Network-Effect AI CompanyA Wisconsin county had 300 gigabytes sitting on a cold case—and Peregrine's founders still refuse to take the credit.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 21, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCerebras Waited Ten Years for a Market That Finally Needed SpeedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder and CEO Andrew Feldman walks No Priors through wafer-scale chips, a $20 billion OpenAI deal, and why a dinner-plate processor only mattered once AI became an everyday tool.
31:26ENSequoia Capital· Apr 14, 2026PodcastChatGPT Opened 65 Pages to Buy a Shower HeadProfound CEO James Cadwallader argues that the internet's front door is the same, but an agent now walks through it, and marketing has to be rewritten for that visitor.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 8, 2026PodcastGranola Added More Customers Than Almost Anyone by Being Surprisingly UnambitiousHost Nathan LabenzCo-founder Sam Stephenson tells Nathan Labenz how a calm notes app for frazzled meeting days, one Slack-sharing loop, and a refusal to promise the burning-fire work built a $1.5 billion company.
44:17ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey’s bet: make every law firm AI-first, don’t become oneHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn the day Harvey got GPT-4 access, co-founder Winston locked himself in a room for 14 hours and rebuilt his associate workflow by hand.
50:08ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 27, 2025Podcast1Mind's AI Superhuman Now Sources 76% of the PipelineHost Nathan LabenzAmanda Kahlow tells Zapier CEO Wade Foster why she tore up the sales org — and why a face on an agent is mostly a trick to get buyers talking.
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.
42:05ENSequoia Capital· May 20, 2025PodcastAI Can Prep the Meeting in 30 Seconds. It Still Can't Sign the Contract.Gong founder Amit Bendov on why sales AI will eat admin work, not the close, and why CRM is not going anywhere.
31:34ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 15, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOne Company Now Holds as Many Documents as the Entire Early WebHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGlean CEO Arvind Jain tells No Priors why enterprise search was a graveyard, how transformers finally made it work, and why a product that searches too well can be too dangerous to sell.
45:30ENSequoia Capital· Apr 22, 2025PodcastA $20,000 AI Agent Replacing a $90,000 SDR: Manny Medina on Pricing in the Agent EraA fully loaded human SDR costs $70,000 to $90,000 a year; one AI SDR pitch is $20,000 per agent for 80% of the work, plus a bonus when targets are hit.
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.
54:10ENSequoia Capital· Mar 11, 2025PodcastHarvey Built Legal AI for the Work the Next Model Still Cannot DoCEO Winston Weinberg on citations, process data, and the unscalable tactics that won over century-old law firms.
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.
52:06ENSequoia Capital· Jan 21, 2025PodcastLinkedIn spent five years on graph neural nets. She wants any company to see value in four weeksKumo co-founder Hema Raghavan argues that the graph was always sitting in your warehouse tables — and that a SQL-like predict clause is how ordinary companies finally get to use it.
1:00:05ENSequoia Capital· Jan 14, 2025PodcastIf Someone Builds a Better Spark Product, We Deserve to LoseIon Stoica on how Databricks turned academic open source into a data-and-AI company — and which problems he thinks will matter more tomorrow than today.
51:37ENSequoia Capital· Dec 10, 2024PodcastForty hours to 28 minutes: the Copilot creator teaching AI to hackOege de Moor tells Sequoia how XBOW’s AI pentest matched a top human on 104 original challenges, and why offensive security is becoming always-on software.
51:38ENSequoia Capital· Nov 19, 2024PodcastClay Wants to Be a Guitar, Not a Microwave, for Go-to-Market TeamsKareem Amin tells Sequoia’s Alfred Lin why Clay is building a system of action for growth rather than an AI that replaces SDRs.
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.
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.
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Lex Fridman· Mar 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHe Sold Garbage Bags at 12. The Pitch Hasn't Changed.Guest Mark Cuban · Host Lex FridmanMark Cuban tells Lex Fridman that selling is helping, a billion requires luck, DEI is not a mind virus, and drug prices stay high because three middlemen hide the math.
39:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Underestimated AI Buyer Is the Shop on the CornerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer Square CEO Alyssa Henry tells No Priors that generative AI is unlocking work small merchants always needed and never paid anyone to do.
43:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe VCs All Asked Who Else Had Done It. HubSpot’s Answer Was Intuit.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrian Halligan walks through two decades of category creation, a CRM pivot nobody wanted, and why he thinks incumbents — not startups — win this AI round.
50:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 1, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersCheap Volume Beats Gold-Plated Jets: Anduril’s Brian Schimpf on AI and DefenseHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Anduril CEO on Lattice, a school-bus-sized autonomous submarine, why Ukraine made fighter attrition unworkable, and how you actually sell a capability to the Pentagon.Load moreShowing 24 of 113