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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 24, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThey Paid $7.7 Billion for a Broker — and Intend to Do One Deal a YearHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSequence Holdings co-founder Michael Lee tells No Priors why owning a market leader, not selling it software, is how AI actually remakes an incumbent.
34:51ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 27, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersGoogle Paid $10 Million for a Bankrupt Airline’s Data. That’s the Moat.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilEon co-founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein argue that models and compute are rented commodities — the only asset enterprises can actually keep is their data.
34:30ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 31, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersNetic's Agents Answer the Phone When the Heat BreaksHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Melisa Tokmak tells Elad Gil how a two-year-old platform became the AI operations layer for HVAC, roofing, pet care, and other essential services.
41:05ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 9, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThere is no moat: Booking’s CEO on a $1 stock, agentic travel, and why AI still doesn’t move the numbersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGlenn Fogel cashed his 1999 bonus, joined Priceline in February 2000, and watched the Nasdaq peak a week later — then spent 25 years turning a near-delisting into a thousand-fold ride he now wants to spend on AI travel agents.
42:27ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 4, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Company Can Operate at the Frontier — If It Owns the EvalsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAt Microsoft Build, Satya Nadella tells No Priors and Latent Space why AI is an ecosystem game, why private evals beat public benchmarks, and why the Azure networking team now asks for tokens instead of headcount.
41:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAfter Agents Leak Tokens and Wipe Databases, Onyx Trains Small Models to Watch the Big OnesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilTwo years ago enterprise security buyers told Maxim Bar Kogan he was too early. Now Fortune 10 companies are calling a sub-100-person Israeli startup because they cannot stop agent adoption — only reduce the chance the next action is illegitimate.
22:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe first AI take-private is a $6.3 billion bet that services can grow like softwareHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilLong Lake CEO Alexander Taubman tells Elad Gil why his firm is taking American Express Global Business Travel private after 30 AI-driven acquisitions — and why they buy the company instead of selling it a tool.
39:48ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakers400,000 Customers, 20,000 APIs: SAP's CTO on the Hard Exam of Enterprise AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilPhilipp Herzig tells No Priors how SAP is rebuilding the company operating system for AI, and why scale, evals, and pricing will decide who wins.
57:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 17, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCopying One ServiceNow App with a Language Model Costs Ten Times as MuchHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilBill McDermott tells Sarah Guo why the SaaS apocalypse fails a cost test, why models still cannot close a case, and how agents are already doing most of ServiceNow’s customer-service work.
41:38ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 11, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersElevenLabs Hit $300 Million ARR by Building Voice Before Anyone Believed It Was the InterfaceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn Poland, watching a foreign film is a special kind of pain: one narrator, every character, a flat delivery from start to finish.
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.
42:11ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 6, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersSnowflake's CEO Tells Customers to Spend AI a Thousand Dollars at a TimeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSridhar Ramaswamy talks with Sarah Guo about Snowflake Intelligence, shutting down a homegrown model, and why defensibility is built every day, not planned.
18:59ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers86 Out of 100: The Clips No Priors Could Not Leave on the Cutting-Room FloorHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil stitch nine 2025 conversations into one short tour of legal AI, spatial intelligence, jobs, deterrence, and a doctor who made it home for dinner.
58:21ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 4, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersAttacks Take 23 Minutes. Response Still Takes Days.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilPalo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on how AI is remaking search, enterprise software, and the timeline of a cyberattack.
31:22ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 18, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDecagon Prices AI Support by the Conversation. The Market Is Wages.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on six-figure contracts at zero ARR, 60–70% contact-center cuts, and a world where your agent calls the airline’s agent.
58:25ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 15, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA construction permit that took four months now takes three minutesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJared Kushner talks with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil about Affinity Partners, the AI firm BrainCo, and how capital, energy, and Middle East diplomacy now run through AI.
45:17ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Click From OpenAI Is 750 Times Harder Than From Google a Decade AgoHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on Content Independence Day, why traffic is a broken proxy for value, and how to price the holes in the models.
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.
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.
30:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBilt Saved 65 Support Seats. Decagon's Founder Says Most Agent Ideas Still Won't SellHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on why customer support is the golden agent use case, why instruction following beats o1-style reasoning, and the two filters that kill most agent startups.
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.
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.
48:31ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Call Center Contact Costs $13. A Company Agent Can Do It for Under a DollarHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSierra cofounder and OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor tells No Priors why branded customer agents are shovel-ready, why RAG demos are not products, and how AI software should charge for the job done.Load moreShowing 24 of 59