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TwoSetAI: Decoding AI Builders

Angelina Yang

Behind every AI company is a founder who almost quit, made a bet no one believed in, or figured something out that changed everything. TwoSetAI tells those stories through long-form interviews with the people building the future. Hosted by Angelina Yang. angelinayang.substack.com

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58 episodes

  1. Your Data Is a Disaster, but We Can Work With It | Mark Hay, CTO @ TextQL 37:28
  2. Why His Creative Kids Didn't Want This Book | Joseph Enochs of Enterprise Vision Technologies 49:39
  3. How Fast AI Learned Math | Phillip Kerger of UC Berkeley 1:00:25
  4. MrBeast's 10% Rule, Applied to Podcasts | Rox Codes of Flightcast 1:02:02
  5. The One Question to Ask About Your Company's AI Agents | Hector Hernandez of Speakeasy 52:59
  6. The AI Bubble Has an Upside | Rachel Chalmers of Generationship 48:07
  7. You Don't Need AI Friends | Xuan Zhao of Flourish Science 59:19
  8. When Your AI Starts Acting as You | Sam Kececi of The Sentience Company 50:30
  9. What Engineers Do Now That AI Writes Most of the Code | Murali Swaminathan of Freshworks 58:32
  10. Why Heavy Industry Is Two or Three Years Behind on AI | Ali Parandeh, Author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI 30:09
  11. Why We May Not Need Translation Much Longer | Olga Beregovaya of Smartling 1:13:31
  12. Why More Features Make Your AI Product Harder to Remember | Rob Kaminski of Fletch 1:01:55
  13. Why AI Is Coming for Pickleball and 25-Year-Old Software | Birju Kadakia of Rec Technologies 56:28
  14. The 5 Pricing Models Every AI Agent Company Should Know | Jenée Hall, Former CRO 1:06:35
  15. What Is Left for Engineers When AI Writes the Code | Ofer Mendelevitch, Author of Hands-On RAG for Production 1:09:38
  16. How Close Personal AI Employees Actually Are | Ali Parandeh, Author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI 50:59
  17. A CTO's Honest Read on the Year AI Surpasses Human Intelligence | Gil Feig of Merge 48:53
  18. What Your AI Agents Really Are When You Strip Away the Hype | Nicole Königstein, Author of AI Agents: The Definitive Guide 1:14:26
  19. The 5 Tailwinds Every AI Builder Should Ride | Mercedes Bent of Premise Ventures 49:04
  20. What an AI Hallucination Really Is, and How to Control It | Wiley Jones of Doss 1:07:40
  21. What an AI Billing Company Will Not Let AI Do | Deepak Bapat of Tabs 53:19
  22. The Open-Source Platform Behind OpenAI's Voice Mode | Tom Shapland of LiveKit 1:02:03
  23. He Built AI for GitHub Copilot. Now He Says We're All Doomed | John Berryman, Author of Prompt Engineering for LLMs 52:06
  24. From a 4-Day MVP to 80,000 GitHub Stars | Magnus Müller of Browser Use 52:45
  25. What a Context Graph Really Is | Daniel Davis of TrustGraph 1:00:22
  26. Managing 100 AI Agents vs. 100 People: What's the Difference? | Simon Shaolei Du of Apodex 45:25
  27. What Perplexity's Ad Shutdown Tells Us About AI Monetization | Nic Baird of Koah Labs 54:56
  28. Examples Beat Instructions: How Prompt Optimization Works | Mike Taylor, Author of Prompt Engineering for Generative AI 56:29
  29. What They Don't Tell You About Selling Your AI Startup | Jay Hack of ClickUp 59:58
  30. Why AI Is Making Hiring Harder, Not Easier | John Kim of Paraform 50:18
  31. What Happens When AI Agents Talk to Your Customers | Alex Beller of Postscript 44:36
  32. We Killed RAG, MCP, and Agentic Loops | Paul Iusztin, Author of LLM Engineer's Handbook 51:56
  33. Rearchitecting How Science Works, Starting With Materials | Jorge Colindres of Radical AI 54:44
  34. The 3 AI Rights No One Told Creators About | Trip Adler of Created by Humans 49:08
  35. Writing Is Thinking: The Case for Writing Without AI | Jasmin Alić of Link Up 1:01:02
  36. 1.1 Million Robots Are Already at Work. Where Are They? | Jan Liphardt of OpenMind 1:04:16
  37. The Branding Mistake That Keeps Creators Stuck | Adam Biddlecombe of Mindstream 1:11:00
  38. What Engineers Do When Handed God in a Box | Steve Ruiz of tldraw 54:42
  39. Banned by OpenAI - Dara Ladjevardian (CEO of Delphi) 45:39
  40. Why He Chooses Humans Over AI | Joris Corthout of Prismax 45:24
  41. From Nearly Shutting Down to $40M ARR in 5 Months | Alexander Berger of Bolt.new 57:50
  42. How Browser Agents Find What Google Search Can't | Devi Parikh of Yutori 52:01
  43. The AI That Takes Down 5,000 Fakes a Day | Jesse Xu of Podqi 52:59
  44. Thousands of Dashboards, None With the Answer | Alex Reichenbach of Structify 43:49
  45. What It Takes to Train One AI Model | Raghav Selvan of the University of Copenhagen 47:47
  46. The Vibe Coding Security Risk Nobody's Talking About | Ali Parandeh, Author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI 1:05:18
  47. Why "Well Enough" Is Not Good Enough for AI Data | Ahmed Rashad of Perle.ai 50:49
  48. What YouTube's Engagement Metrics Missed | Jing Wang of DeepVista 55:07
  49. The Retrieval Loss Problem: Why Your AI Memory System Fails at Scale | Shawkat Kabbara of Papr 41:57
  50. Solving Context Loss, the Problem Every Startup Has | Kisson Lin, then CEO of Tanka 46:56