Hosted by Tom Chavez -- super{set} · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 71 episodes
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Building a company from scratch is soul-sucking and mind-numbingly hard - but it’s the best thing ever.We know this because we’ve built a couple ourselves - and we’re building a lot more right now. We’ve made a lot of money for our employees, our shareholders, ourselves - we’re proud of that - and that’s why we want to talk about how it’s done. Join us - Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya - in The Closed Session, where we reveal all the joys and sorrows of company building. From the guttermost to the uttermost, we’re not going to hold back.
Tom Chavez -- super{set} hosts The {Closed} Session, a business show with 71 episodes published.
Most healthcare AI founders pitch the technology instead of patient outcomes. Colin Lawlor, founder of Sleep.ai with 15 years in sleep science and 250+ clinical studies, explains why sleep data requires specialized infra
Most founders treat culture like an afterthought until it breaks. George Schlossnagle, founder of Message Systems (sold to MessageBird for $600M), explains why culture debt accumulates faster than technical debt and dest
Most enterprise AI delivers generic responses when you need role-specific intelligence. Peter Day, General Partner at super{set} with a PhD in machine learning and 8 years leading product at Quantcast, breaks down why ag
Most enterprise AI failures aren't model problems—they're data architecture problems. Vivek Vaidya, serial entrepreneur with 25+ years building enterprise software and current CTO/Co-founder of super{set}, explains why v
Most financial markets still run on one-to-one matching when optimization engines could unlock trillions. Kelly Littlepage co-founded OneChronos after exits to major financial institutions, building the fastest-growing U
Most founders think scaling means hiring more people, but 66% of Inc. 5000 companies fail within eight years because growth without systems is just expensive chaos. Charles Gaudet, founder of Predictable Profits and "CEO
Most AI fundraising advice is performative gibberish disconnected from capital reality. Arjun Dev Arora, managing partner at Format One, breaks down why founders absorbing social media narratives about billion-dollar pre
Most founders pitch the wrong metrics while $200 billion flows into AI startups annually. Vijay Rajendran, author of #1 Amazon bestseller "The Funding Framework" and venture builder at gAI Ventures, breaks down why fundr
Most enterprise AI pilots die in the sandbox trap. Miguel Milano, President & CRO at Salesforce with $40B in revenue operations, explains why 95% of AI implementations fail without enterprise-grade data infrastructure an
Most founders think storytelling is fluff that distracts from product metrics. Terry Szuplat, Obama's longest-serving speechwriter who crafted eight years of presidential addresses, reveals why narrative craft is your la
Most VCs chase momentum while missing systematic market dislocations worth billions. Sean Mendy, co-founding partner at Westbound Equity Partners, built a $125M fund targeting the 97% funding gap for underrepresented fou
Most AI 'innovation' is just workflow automation disguised as intelligence. Benjamin Shapiro, founder of I Hear Everything and creator of AI-powered podcast production systems, talks with Tom Chavez about the brutal real
Most enterprises burn millions on idle GPUs while developers wait weeks for access. Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay Systems, built a global GPU orchestration platform after exits at Soha Systems (acquired by Akamai) and bri
Most operators fail as investors because they can't scale their expertise beyond one-on-one advice calls. Leyla D. Seka, former Salesforce EVP who built the multi-billion dollar AppExchange ecosystem, explains how Operat
Most payment startups treat compliance like a checkbox instead of survival strategy. Richie Serna, CEO of Finix, sold his previous payments company to Stripe and now competes directly against them, winning 60% of head-to
Most enterprise AI pilots fail because companies treat agent development like legacy software projects. Woodson Martin, CEO of OutSystems and former Salesforce executive who led the Krux acquisition, explains why determi
Most AI pilots fail because founders are retrofitting old playbooks instead of rebuilding revenue architecture. Mark Roberge, founding CRO at HubSpot who scaled from $0 to $100M revenue, breaks down how AI compresses tra
Most vertical AI companies fail because they're building features, not businesses. Rachel ten Brink, GP at Red Bike Capital and former Scentbird co-founder (scaled to 500K+ subscribers, $29M raised), breaks down how to b
Most AI adoption in finance is just automation theater—real transformation requires rethinking entire workflows. George Lee, former CTO and M&A head at Goldman Sachs, explains why AI won't replace bankers but will compre
Most AI investment flows to infrastructure while founders ignore energy constraints that will determine who survives. George Lee, Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Global Institute, breaks down the bottlenecks choking AI deployme
Peter Day
head of London office · Northern Ireland Community Relations Council
1 appearance on this show
Charles Gaudet
"CEO Whisperer" · Predictable Profits
1 appearance on this show
Vijay Rajendran
startup advisor, entrepreneur, and author · Climate Capital
1 appearance on this show
Terry Szuplat
former senior speechwriter to President Barack Obama
1 appearance on this show
Benjamin Shapiro
host of the MarTech Podcast · I Hear Everything
1 appearance on this show
Mark Roberge
founding CRO · Stage 2 Capital
1 appearance on this show
Jen
co-host · Dork Tales
1 appearance on this show
Helen Toner
Director of Strategy · Center for Security and Emerging Technology
1 appearance on this show
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Data Scientist, Author
1 appearance on this show
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