John Werner

I bring ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results. Currently, I serve as Managing Director of Link Ventures.

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How does X build moonshots?

Astro Teller explains why radical innovation begins with discovering where you are wrong. Full conversation with Erin Woo: https://t.co/hcR2hZRUv6

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AI is creating 10x workers while entry level coding roles are shrinking.

Erik Brynjolfsson, Mehran Sahami and DJ Patil examine who captures the gains and what education must do next.

Watch: https://t.co/bdQZT5KEjr

#FutureOfWork #AI

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Most AI pilots never reach production. Paul Baier, Andrew Lau, Pankaj Thakkar and Rahul Todkar unpack what breaks as enterprises scale AI agents: governance, observability, accountability and cost.

Watch: https://t.co/8KMYZB6Dnx

#AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI

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Yoav Shoham has spent decades shaping AI.

@alexwg and I asked him what LLMs are still missing, why the frontier model race favors only a few players, and what happens when millions of AI agents interact.

Watch Episode 14 of Conversations in Action: https://t.co/aQEDRn4SNl

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No GPS. No reliable cloud. No one ready to take over.

Merline Saintil, Stephen Delaporte, Alexander Wissner-Gross, and Daniele Gammelli explore what AI must become to operate safely beyond Earth.

Watch: https://t.co/uHGdBelFbj

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AI companies are scaling faster than the old rules of investing can explain. Krystal Hu, Ulrike Hoffmann Burchardi, Albert Wang and Dave Blundin examine durable moats, open source risk and the global race for compute.

Watch: https://t.co/W2ilOU2Ewt

#AI #AIInvesting

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AI pilots are easy. Enterprise scale is not.

Leaders from NVIDIA, Cisco, SanDisk, Marvell and Deloitte reveal what it takes to turn AI agents into measurable value, from security and identity to rapidly rising token costs.

Watch: https://t.co/JUo6GXxZSF

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What needs to change before AI agents can safely act in the real world?

Daniela Rus and Ion Stoica joined us at Imagination in Action for a fascinating conversation about infrastructure, safety, and human intent.

Watch: https://t.co/wcBqFCgq2j

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Daphne Koller helped reshape education through Coursera. Now she is using AI to develop medicines that could change lives.

Extraordinary conversation at The Next Endeavour 2026.

Watch: https://t.co/6BQWplyL57

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I have wanted to bring Daniela Rus and James Landay together for a long time.

MIT CSAIL and Stanford HAI are shaping what AI becomes. We discussed transformers, open source AI, education, safety, and what comes next.

Watch: https://t.co/fhzgfSzlwY

#ImaginationinAction #AI

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Will robots support humanity or eventually replace parts of it?

Alexander Wissner Gross, Steve Cousins and Sampriti Bhattacharyya explore the autonomous intelligence era at The Next Endeavour 2026.

Watch: https://t.co/ysnqaTQABJ

#ImaginationInAction #Robotics

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AI has outgrown the hardware built to run it.

Great conversation with Andrew Feldman, Atiq Raza and Dave Blundin on what comes next in chips, memory, inference and AI architecture.

Watch: https://t.co/MGC50tNYO3

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Three people can now accomplish what once required 1,000.

That changes who can build, how quickly ideas can grow, and what becomes possible.

My opening remarks from The Next Endeavour 2026 at Google Bay View: https://t.co/9Rk2FpClZg

#ImaginationInAction #AI

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Five Space Shuttle missions. More than 1,200 hours in space. One unforgettable conversation.

Jeffrey A. Hoffman joins @alexwg and me to discuss Artemis, alien life, AI, Mars, and our future beyond Earth.

Watch Episode 13: https://t.co/Sxv8RsOteJ

#ConversationsInAction

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Day 1 of the Imagination in Action Silicon Valley AI Summit.

Great people, big ideas, and incredible conversations about what’s next for AI.

More ahead today!

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From an empty room to a room filled with people shaping the future of AI.

An incredible first day at the Imagination in Action Silicon Valley AI Summit. This is only the beginning.

#ImaginationInAction #AI

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Could we discover alien life within our lifetime?

Nagin Cox joins Alex Wissner Gross and me to explore Mars, AI powered rovers and where we might find life beyond Earth.

Watch: https://t.co/8CcYv0on6Y

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Are we alone?

Jessie Christiansen joined Alex Wissner Gross and me to explore the search for another Earth, alien life, and what the next generation of telescopes could reveal.

Fascinating conversation.

Watch: https://t.co/kW9nWwVDkt

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Excited to bring @ImaginationInAction to Google Bay View on September 14 & 15.

Two days with the people building what’s next in AI and technology. See you in Silicon Valley!

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Silicon Valley, we’re coming.

📍 Google Bay View
📅 September 14 & 15

Apply now: https://t.co/qIq4yPqZTX

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John Werner '92 is named a tech power player by the @BostonGlobe for his leadership in building Boston’s tech networking. https://t.co/l72jo6hmPp

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