No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

How AI is opening up new markets and impacting the startup status quo with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil

This week on No Priors, we have a host-only episode. Sarah and Elad catch up to discuss how tech history may be repeating itself. Much like in the early days of the internet, every company is clamoring to incorporate AI into their products or operations while some legacy players are skeptical that investment in AI will pay off. They also get into new opportunities and capabilities that AI is opening up, whether or not incubators are actually effective, and what companies are poised to stand the test of time in the changing tech landscape.

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Show Notes: 
(0:00) Introduction
(0:16) Old school operators AI misunderstandings
(5:10) Tech history is repeating itself with slow AI adoption
(6:09) New AI Markets
(8:48) AI-backed buyouts
(13:03) AI incubation
(17:18) Exciting incubating applications
(18:26) AI and the public markets
(22:20) Staffing AI companies 
(25:14) Competition and shrinking head count

At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com.
Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners.
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.