Spotlight On: AI Podcast
1) Figma IPO, GPT-5, and a Q+A with Kerry Wang
This week, we’re talking to Accel’s newest partner, Kerry Wang, about her journey from founder to investor, advice for finding the right early-stage partners, and what we can learn from Figma’s “12-ye...Show More
2) VBSR 1.04: Lovable, talent wars, and the changing $100m milestone
Sara and Vas talk about Lovable’s record-breaking sprint to $100 million ARR and the growth of startups that boost human creativity. They also explore how the AI talent wars are reshaping industry nar...Show More
3) Bonus: Anton Osika on how Lovable’s creating a world of builders
Accel just led Lovable’s Series A, the largest in Stockholm's history. On the eve of the announcement, Lovable CEO and Co-Founder Anton Osika sat down with Accel’s Ben Fletcher and Zhenya Loginov to t...Show More
4) VBSR 1.03: Scale, Circle, and Exits 101
Sara and Vas talk about Scale’s partnership with Meta, Circle’s IPO, and what founders can learn from the companies' early journeys. They also answer common questions they get from founders about exit...Show More
5) Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on translating bold visions into operational excellence
Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside’s career reads like a tour through the world’s most complex operational challenges: opening new markets at pre-IPO Google, wrangling billion-dollar losses at Motorola, g...Show More
6) Veza’s Tarun Thakur on excelling at go-to-market at every stage
According to Veza co-founder and CEO Tarun Thakur, you don’t just found a startup once. Instead, you found and refound it many times over: as you achieve product-market fit, as you land your first inv...Show More
7) VBSR 1.02: The geography advantage + customer anthropology + a taste for taste
Sara and Vas debrief on Vas’s recent trip to India, how founders use geography to their advantage, and what tech can learn from LVMH about taste. They also share some advice for founders on pitching ...Show More
8) True Anomaly’s Even Rogers on failing forward to achieve mission success
Most of us think of space as a future possibility. The reality is that space is our present: everything from our maps apps, bank transactions, and national defense depends on operations currently floa...Show More
9) CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on the security arms race
AI has made advanced cybersecurity methods more widely available—and put sophisticated cyberattack techniques into the hands of threat actors everywhere. CrowdStrike has spent the last decade and a ha...Show More
10) Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch on bold visions for the future delivered incrementally
Vercel founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch still remembers the thrill of loading new software onto his family’s computer as a kid living in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This was the Windows ’95 era, whe...Show More