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Chip Conley spent eight years at Airbnb, where he worked closely with the hospitality giant’s CEO, Brian Chesky.Conley, 64, said in an episode of Lenny’s Podcast that aired on Sunday that alignment is key when working with a founder in founder mode.”When Brian or the founder, whoever it is, is…
“The home is coming,” Brett Adcock, the founder of robotics company Figure AI, says.”The home is like single-digit years away” from being a place where humanoid robots can do “useful work,” he said this week on Around the Prompt, a tech podcast.That is, first and foremost, thanks to advances in…
Johannes Reck, the founder and CEO of the SoftBank-backed travel startup GetYourGuide, says a different type of person will flourish in a startup versus a public company. “I think you need fundamentally different people for a Series A to Series C, D stage company than for a pre-IPO or public…
Mark Zuckerberg is making a 28-year-old CEO the lynchpin of Meta’s investment in the AI race.On Thursday, Meta confirmed that it’s buying a 49% stake in Scale AI, giving the company a valuation of over $29 billion. The tech giant is spending about $15 billion for the stake.Scale’s founder and…
