Great Chat

A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, @sallyshin, @macbohannon, @helen_min and @ashleymayer.

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When it comes to billboards, go big or go home.

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In the AI IPO race, billions are no longer interesting.

🎙️ @helen_min, @ashleymayer and guest host @jacsrice

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How nice of Meta to time this with our latest ep.

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Memo: Meta plans to embed engineers and product managers within large corporate customers as part of a new Enterprise Solutions unit to help deploy its AI tools (@jyoti_mann1 / The Information)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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Marina v. Mission (no horse in this race)

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Dear Graduates: we're sorry about the Schmidt speech.

This week, we break down the nuance behind the boos, and grapple with the reality that no tech leader could have delivered a rousing AI speech in this moment.

On the bright side, Schmidt sent us down a fun rabbit hole, reviewing some of the best commencement speeches in recent history (RIP Steve Jobs).

🎙️ @helen_min & @ashleymayer

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Congrats to @Mercury, our favorite bank and longtime pod supporter 🙌

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I legit didn't realize I had so many feelings about what it means to be a "mission-driven" startup in 2026 until our recent @greatchatpod hang.

Tl;dr: today's startups missions are more adversarial, and generally oriented around winning (versus the softer and more idealistic missions of prior tech eras).

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What does it mean to be mission-driven in 2026 versus earlier tech eras? The group chat weighs in.

🎙️ @helen_min @ashleymayer & Angela Du

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From @helen_min: Missions used to be the way startups competed with FAANG for talent.

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In this era of hot takes loosely held, we reveal the hills we're ready to die on.

@helen_min's: Ads are the perfect business model.

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@loveLFM @david__booth Orthogonal, jevons paradox, overton window, legible to capital, first principles, durable, compounding, wedge, non-consensus, default alive, surface area, tension, collapse the stack, asymmetric, memetic, slope

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@loveLFM @david__booth https://t.co/wZuW4kqSY4

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If every role is getting a sexy AI rebrand (growth engineer, operations engineer, etc), what do we call the actual engineers?

🎙️ @helen_min, @ashleymayer & guest host @mattyp

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If every role is getting a sexy AI rebrand (growth engineer, operations engineer, etc), what do we call the actual engineers?

🎙️ @helen_min, @ashleymayer & guest host @mattyp

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@adelwu_ @mattyp Our ICP <3

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When everyone is a potential builder, what does developer marketing even mean? @mattyp joins us this week to weigh in. When AI coding products don't know who their customer is "you get products that are for everyone and no one at the same time."