(0:00) Intro(0:50) Welcome Daniel Ek(4:05) The entrepreneurial journey to Spotify(10:05) Making millions but feeling aimless(19:12) The roots of Spotify(21:17) Constraints as a benefit(25:34) Defining your market narrowly(27:33) Sleeping outside record label offices(35:39) Being Vilified in the music industry(45:16) Taking elements from iconic CEOs to mode(50:59) Natural Biases(55:35) Reevaluating what you need for your mission(1:02:14) Being outspoken against Apple(1:07:10) Responsibility as a platform in free speech and censorship Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

(0:00) Intro(0:41) Welcome George Boutros(11:08) Advising deals 2008-2010(16:48) Pillars of building out an investment bank(30:58) Becoming CEO at Qatalyst(34:32) Working because you enjoy it(37:42) George's father(49:23) Shifting focus to tech(54:53) Apple almost selling in 1996(1:01:06) Pixar(1:07:53) Negotiating Advice(1:10:46) Figuring out when to sell(1:17:43) Council to private companies now(1:24:08) The institutionalization of private equity within technology(1:38:03) How is the investment banking industry changing(1:42:52) Balancing work and family Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

(0:00) Intro(0:54) Welcome back, Aaron Levie(4:28) Lightning bolt moment with AI(10:00) OG Customers(12:50) Describe Box's AI usage(24:13) Why have the big tech companies been able to execute as well as they have?(28:00) How would you start a company as a young enterprising founder today?(33:04) The social contracts of AI(37:21) Aaron's doom perspective(45:06) Operating profit(48:29) One lesson of operational excellence(52:59) Wrong startup advice(56:38) Reading recommendations Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

(0:00) Intro(1:19) Welcome Jay Simons(10:15) BEA Acquired by Oracle(14:19) Joining Atlassian(16:58) What was the company growing at when you joined?(22:10) Divorcing the success from the tactics(34:48) Control your destiny of what the market is going to take(40:22) How do you orient your team?(46:42) Having two products early on(55:07) Seeding the community(1:07:29) Crucible moments at Atlassian (1:22:11) Path to advising (1:33:28) Soft diplomacy in decision making Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

(0:00) Intro(1:18) Welcome Eliezer(6:27) How would you define artificial intelligence?(15:50) What is the purpose of a firm alarm?(19:29) Eliezer’s background(29:28) The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence(33:38) Maybe AI doesn’t end up automatically doing the right thing(45:42) AI Safety Conference(51:15) Disaster Monkeys(1:02:15) Fast takeoff(1:10:29) Loss function(1:15:48) Protein folding(1:24:55) The deadly stuff(1:46:41) Why is it inevitable?(1:54:27) Can’t we let tech develop AI and then fix the problems?(2:02:56) What were the big jumps between GPT3 and GPT4?(2:07:15) “The trajectory of AI is inevitable”(2:28:05) Elon Musk and OpenAI(2:37:41) Sam Altman Interview(2:50:38) The most optimistic path to us surviving(3:04:46) Why would anything super intelligent pursue ending humanity?(3:14:08) What role do VCs play in this? Show Notes:https://twitter.com/liron/status/1647443778524037121?s=20https://futureoflife.org/event/ai-safety-conference-in-puerto-rico/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j9Q8bRmwCgXRYAgcJ/miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity-strategyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Figerh89ghttps://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23447596/artificial-intelligence-agi-openai-gpt3-existential-risk-human-extinctionEliezer Yudkowsky – AI Alignment: Why It's Hard, and Where to Start Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 🎙 Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-cartoon-avatars/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.