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Oct 6, 2026
Ignite Startups: Ganesh Padmanabhan on Building AI Infrastructure for Healthcare | Ep301
Healthcare does not need more isolated AI tools. It needs infrastructure that can manage agents, redesign workflows, and remove administrative work from clinicians. Ganesh Padmanabhan explains how Autonomize AI is building toward an AI-native health enterprise.
Oct 4, 2026
Sixteen Days to Copy, Ten Years to Pay
Micron made $37.7B of profit on $54.2B of sales last quarter. Model prices fell all week. The memory underneath them did not. The labs signing 10-year compute contracts and the startups paying per task both buy from that.
Oct 2, 2026
Ignite Career: AI Is Changing the Rules of Tech Careers with Alana Karen | Ep299
AI is reshaping tech careers, job security, and what companies value. After 23 years at Google, Alana Karen explains why adaptability matters more than ever.
Sep 29, 2026
Ignite Startups: Why Corporate Training Is Being Rebuilt Around AI and Just-in-Time Learning | Ep298
Corporate training can take months to build and become outdated just as quickly. Arusto co-founder Yuvraj Singh Shergill explains how AI and just-in-time learning could replace static courses with personalized training built when employees actually need it.
Sep 27, 2026
The Price Cut Landed on Time. The Kill Switch Didn't.
Harvey's gross margin went negative under usage-based pricing, then three labs cut prices within 48 hours. OpenAI's own kill switch didn't fire on the first real test. Anthropic asks shareholders for permanent voting control ahead of its IPO.
Sep 25, 2026
Want to Slash Inflation? Slash Spending.
Core inflation is 2.4 percent, the lowest since 2021, yet the Fed just raised rates anyway because a war has cut off a fifth of the world's oil.
Sep 22, 2026
Ignite AI: How AI Can Let One Fund Controller Manage 10X More Capital with Rajesh Gopi | Ep297
Fund administration has long depended on armies of controllers, spreadsheets, manual reconciliations, and repetitive operational work.
Sep 21, 2026
YC Summer 2026: The 17 Companies We Backed, and Why This Batch Went Down the Stack
We backed 17 companies from YC Summer 2026. Spring was agents doing jobs. Summer went down the stack into the compute, security, and physical infrastructure those agents run on.
Sep 20, 2026
Last Week Ignite September 20, 2026: The Decisions Got Cheap, the Oversight Got Funded.
The week's cheapest model refuses to write a sentence. Jev answers typed questions at four cents per million tokens, because most of what an agent does is clerk work billed at writer rates. The labs, meanwhile, started paying to be watched.
Sep 15, 2026
Ignite Marketing: The Real Growth Engine Behind Profitable Apps with Jonathan Maxim | Ep296
Most founders chase downloads, virality, and more features, but profitable growth comes from something far less glamorous: monetization, distribution, and relentless funnel optimization.
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