Dylan Fox is the founder and CEO of AssemblyAI, the voice AI infrastructure platform behind AI notetakers, medical scribes, drive through ordering, contact centers and humanoid robots. AssemblyAI went through Y Combinator's first AI batch in 2017 and now s...

Everyone talks about Nvidia GPUs. Few people talk about the lasers connecting them. Michael Hurlston is the CEO of Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE), one of the world's leading suppliers of optical networking and laser technologies powering AI data centers. Before ...

Scott Wu, CEO & Co-Founder of Cognition, joins Sourcery in Paris amid the RAISE AI Summit. Cognition is the applied AI lab behind Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, and Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf. The company has raised more than $2.5 billio...

Tony Kim is Managing Director and Head of the Global Technology Team within Fundamental Equities at BlackRock. Recorded at the RAISE Summit in Paris, where Tony spoke on 4 panels, next-gen accelerators with d-Matrix, quantum computing with PsiQuantum, opti...

David Friedberg takes America's 250th anniversary as a starting point to ask where does the country actually stand? And how do the bottom 50% get left behind? He argues the wealth gap is widely misunderstood, pointing to roughly $183 trillion in total US ...

CJ Desai, CEO of MongoDB, joins Sourcery at the RAISE Summit in Paris. We cover why data is the downstream winner of the AI cycle, how hyperscaler capacity limits are pushing workloads back on-prem, the return of data sovereignty, & what a bank's real agen...

Day 2 of RAISE Summit in Paris, the biggest AI summit in Europe. 12 founders, operators, and investors give us their hottest takes on the debates splitting the room right now: is token maxing genius or a waste, is open source dying or about to take over, a...

Day 1 of RAISE Summit in Paris, the most high-profile AI summit in Europe. We pulled 10 of the sharpest founders, operators, and investors aside for their hottest takes on the debates defining AI right now.Open source vs closed models dominated the room, a...

Rodrigo Liang is the CEO and Co-Founder of SambaNova. The company just announced a first close on a $1B round at an $11B valuation, led by General Atlantic with T. Rowe Price and Capital Group participating. Rodrigo has spent 32 years building chips. We c...

"Elon Musk was really good about keeping the mission as a forefront focus for what we were doing, & just energized everyone to get it done." Now Chief Tech & Product Officer, Senra Systems Ken Venner spent 11 years at Broadcom, joining at 1,000 people and...

Senra Systems has closed a $65 million Series B, bringing total funding to over $112 million. The round was co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and Interlagos, with participation from General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Dylan F...

Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, joins Molly O'Shea at the RAISE Summit in Paris. Recorded 2 months after Cerebras went public at a $56B valuation and popped to roughly $95B on its first day, this conversation covers the $20B+ OpenA...

Cyan Banister put her entire IronPort exit into SpaceX when the rockets were still blowing up on the launchpad. She never sold. It became the best investment of her life. She is Co-Founder and General Partner at Long Journey Ventures, spent 4 years as a pa...

Accel Partners Arun Mathew, Miles Clements, & Matt Weigand join Sourcery to go deep into the lore of the quiet, yet legendary, Silicon Valley firm. We go back through Accel's 40 years of history, starting with the 10% Facebook stake and the secondary they...

Figma Co-Founder and CEO Dylan Field joins Sourcery behind-the-scenes at Day 0 of Config 2026, aka the “Coachella for design,” just before 10,000 attendees arrived. The headline going around is that “design is dead” and AI has turned it into a commodity. ...

Ev Randle, General Partner at Benchmark, joins Sourcery to break down how AI has rewritten the rules of venture and growth investing. Ev explains why the old inverse relationship between scale and risk has collapsed, why the golden rules of SaaS now run in...

Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO of Coinbase, sits down with Sourcery backstage ahead of the Coinbase System Update. We cover tokenized equities, an SEC-registered AI agent advisor, and the unified global liquidity approvals that bring Coinbase's offsh...

Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga and author of the newly released Life at the Speed of Play (HarperCollins, foreword by Reid Hoffman), joins Sourcery to break down the framework he’s used over the past three decades to build hit products. Pincus took games li...

We are in the middle of the largest wealth creation event in modern history. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cerebras, Cursor, and more are heading to public markets or trading in secondaries, minting more millionaires and billionaires than ever on over $4 tril...

Gabe Pereyra is the co-founder and President of Harvey. Before Harvey, he was an AI researcher at Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, working on deep learning at both Brain and DeepMind in 2016 and 2017 as the field was taking off. Valued at $11B, Harvey has...