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Oct 26, 2026
Ignite VC: What Makes a Great Venture Capital Investor with Mahendra Ramsinghani | Ep305
Can VCs really predict unicorns? Mahendra Ramsinghani shares lessons on luck, startup failures, 16x returns, and what makes a great venture capital investor.
Oct 25, 2026
Ninety Days' Notice
Anthropic has promised about $450 billion to clouds it mostly cannot leave, rents capacity from SpaceX on 90 days’ notice, and watched a $1.98-a-task model land in the top four. This week’s filings show who can walk away, how quickly, and what it costs the other side.
Oct 22, 2026
Ignite AI: Why Most AI Projects Fail to Deliver Real Business Value with Eric Siegel | Ep304
Eric Siegel, co-founder of Gooder AI, explains why AI projects fail, why better data beats complex models, and how to turn AI into real business value.
Oct 20, 2026
Ignite Startups: How VoiceBit Is Transforming Restaurant Ordering with AI with Jay Patel | Ep303
VoiceBit co-founder Jay Patel shares how AI is transforming restaurant ordering, recovering lost revenue, and helping restaurants reclaim customers from delivery apps.
Oct 19, 2026
The Book I Needed When I Started Asking These Questions
Plenty of books teach you to build a startup or run a fund. Almost none are for the person who invests in one. That is why I wrote LP.
Oct 18, 2026
The Week Everything Became a Feature
Ramp turned a $1.5 million week of AI usage fees into a product and a $60 billion valuation. This week OpenAI, DeepSeek and Meta each absorbed a feature that used to be a startup. Would yours fit in a release note?
Oct 15, 2026
Ignite Marketing: How to Turn Customers into Lifelong Fans with David Meerman Scott | Ep302
Bestselling author David Meerman Scott reveals why building loyal fans, fostering human connections, and creating authentic communities can drive startup growth in the age of AI.
Oct 11, 2026
Last Week Ignite: Shown, Not Shipped
A false homicide tip reached the Philadelphia police in July. An AI model had written it, and we only learned that in October, when Anthropic published a report on things its models did that nobody asked for.
Oct 8, 2026
Ignite AI: The AI Gateway for Models, Agents and Multi-Device Inference with Jonathan Archer | Ep301
Jonathan Archer of Open LLM explains how to get more from your AI stack by combining multiple models, subscriptions, agents, and devices without constantly switching tools.
Oct 6, 2026
Ignite Startups: Ganesh Padmanabhan on Building AI Infrastructure for Healthcare | Ep300
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.
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