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How founders are building AI companies and rebuilding existing ones around AI: Cursor and Windsurf on AI coding tools, Intercom on its Fin agent, Suno and fal on generative media, Legora on AI for lawyers, and Airtable and Zapier on changing how their teams work.

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The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media

Gorkem Yurtseven, fal

🎧 Podcast2025

First Round Review

How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI

Howie Liu, Airtable

🎧 Podcast2025

YouTube

Des Traynor (Intercom): How we rebuilt the company for the AI era

Des Traynor, Intercom

🎧 Podcast2026

pigment.com

Databricks' Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He's Among the Best

Ali Ghodsi, Databricks

New🎧 Podcast2026

Sequoia

Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf

Varun Mohan, Windsurf

🎧 Podcast2025

Lenny's Newsletter

"Dumbest idea I've heard" to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma

Grant Lee, Gamma

🎧 Podcast2025

YouTube

Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)

Clem Delangue, Hugging Face

🎧 Podcast2024

Acquired

How Suno Grew to $300M in ARR by Democratizing Music Creation

Mikey Shulman, Suno

🎧 Podcast2026

Podcast

How One Hackathon Took Zapier's AI Usage From 10% to 97%

Wade Foster, Zapier

🎧 Podcast2026

Podcast

He turned off a product with 20M users and went from 70 people to 7—then raised a $47M Series A.

Keith Peiris, Lightfield

New🎧 Podcast2026

Podcast

He got rejected from YC, then grew to $1.8B in under 2 years.

Max Junestrand, Legora

🎧 Podcast2026

Podcast

He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic.

Simon Eskildsen, turbopuffer

🎧 Podcast2025

Podcast

ChatGPT Should Have Killed His AI SaaS. Instead, He's Nearing $10M

Alon Talmor, Mosaic AI

New🎧 Podcast2026

The SaaS Podcast

#278 – Growing a Portfolio of AI Products Past $300k After a 7-Figure Exit with Danny Postma

Danny Postma, HeadshotPro

🎧 Podcast2023

dev.to

AI and the Future of Work

Tope Awotona, Calendly

🎥 Video Interview2021VC Backed

wsj.com

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