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.@villigm and team built the top ride hailing company across much of Europe, Africa and the Middle East by trusting the data when everyone thought they were crazy to launch in non-obvious markets. From bootstrapping in Estonia on 5k Euros to a global leader in mobility, hear the story of @boltapp on a new Crucible Moments.

In 2014, @Keller Cliffton shut down his robotic toy startup to build a drone delivery network for life-saving medical supplies. Everyone said it wouldn’t work. Today, @Zipline delivers for hospitals around the world. Now it’s reinventing how delivery works with Platform 2 - starting with Walmart and Chipotle in the US. This is a story of betting everything to transform the world. Featuring @keenanwyrobek, @ryanzip, @maggiemjim, @Alfred_Lin Hosted by @roelofbotha 00:00 – Chewing Glass 00:55 – Discovering Entrepreneurship 02:00 – From Robots to Real Problems 03:00 – The Vision for Global Health Logistics 04:30 – Betting on Rwanda 06:00 – Building the System 08:00 – The First Flight 09:15 – Breakthrough and Scale 11:15 – The Moment of Validation 12:30 – Platform Two: A New Bet 14:15 – Seeing Is Believing 15:45 – The Next Frontier 16:30 – Never Giving Up

Can we map the mind of an LLM? Our first mechanistic interpretability episode on Training Data featuring @GoodfireAI founder @ericho_goodfire (and our first cameo from @roelofbotha!) Goodfire is building an independent mech interp lab, led by some heavyweight researchers from the field (e.g. @leedsharkey who has led a lot of important work in sparse autoencoders to "unscramble" LLMs and resolve superposition, @nickcammarata who has been a key pioneer behind auto interpretability) On this episode, Eric gives us a flyover of the technical results so far from this nascent field (universality, superposition), what's ahead in the research (going from circuits to weights, going from understanding to increasingly surgical editing), a preview of the real-world work they're doing already with @arcinstitute, and the impact he expects Goodfire and the broader field to have on steering, safety, editing and more.

Our understanding of the human body is fragmented and disconnected. At @ArcInstitute co-founder @pdhsu and team are working to change that, building systems that integrate multimodal health information—from genetics to glucose levels—to transform how we understand our bodies.

Rippling sued @Deel today. Our lawsuit alleges Deel cultivated a spy at Rippling & orchestrated a long-running trade-secret theft. The spy searched “deel” in our systems 23 times per day on avg, letting him spy on Deel’s own customers who were considering a switch to Rippling.

The value is in the application layer. Success requires a people-first approach. @winstonweinberg reveals how @harvey__ai built trust through deep industry knowledge and personalized solutions to become the first breakout application layer company in AI.