Luca Ferrari × Molly O'Shea

Bending Spoons’ edge is an integrated operating model that standalone owners cannot economically reproduce.Its 50-plus proprietary technologies, nearly 1,000-person core team, and debt-funded permanent ownership support claimed annual savings above $100 million and $4 million revenue per core Spooner.Airtable’s approximately $1.3 billion enterprise value reflects the underwriting test, while AI startup valuations and unmeasured AI capabilities remain key risks to monitor.

Harry Stebbings

Instinct’s $1B raise at a $10B valuation pairs minute-long latency with compute costs: 10M users paying $10 monthly imply a $1.2B annual burden.Jason’s reversal—from recommending the round to refusing it—alongside Miro’s $1.3B sale from $17.5B and Canva’s slowdown from 30% to 20%, highlights SaaS’s shift from revenue multiples to EBITDA.

David Senra × Luca Ferrari

Bending Spoons is a buy-to-hold-forever operator, producing $3B in run-rate revenue at 54–55% adjusted operating income margins through acquisitions and deep integration.Evernote's headcount fell from 350 to about 20, while revenue now exceeds $100M and product velocity is at least three times faster, demonstrating the operating model's leverage.Diagram and Alt Spooner point to further productivity gains, while fewer, larger deals and the unresolved IPO timeline remain important execution signals to monitor.

李翔 × 张鹏

张鹏将移动互联网概括为“填坑”，将AI与硬科技概括为“爬坡”：范式尚未收敛，思维框架可能每半年变化，最大风险是成为“loading program”。模型公司首先要留在牌桌上，全球最终可能只有十家甚至二十家；具身智能的数据范式仍未收敛，能否把智能进一步转化为真正的生产力值得持续观察。

Harry Stebbings

NVIDIA delivered a record $96.2B quarter and guided to 70% growth for the fiscal year ending January 2028, with end-user demand and share loss the key risks.The reported near-$12.9B Hugging Face deal, not finalized or confirmed, would reinforce open-source compute economics and NVIDIA’s push to win every segment.Agents are becoming software buyers, supporting the cases for Clay at $7B and Linear at $2.5B, while cyber exposure and reward hacking remain unresolved.

Harry Stebbings × Eno Reyes

AI may be priced by outcomes rather than tokens, favoring open models for commodity work and proprietary post-trained specialists for high-value workflows.That challenges frontier-model TAM as Anthropic’s $2T framing depends on Claude Code amid fierce developer-tool competition, model lock-in and margin risk; watch whether the harness becomes the durable application layer.

Martin Casado × Sarah Wang × Matt Bornstein

Cursor’s interface-over-model thesis challenged Microsoft’s Copilot despite its VS Code, OpenAI weights, 100 million developers, and enterprise distribution.Rejecting a $25–50M ARR self-serve ceiling, it built enterprise sales reaching over 50% of the Fortune 500, where margins matter; its IDE-to-agent-to-model shift still faces model releases such as Opus 4.5 and an unnamed acquirer’s potential compute-distribution-data fit.

Anish Acharya × Jen Kha

Frontier AI is becoming a many-winners market: xAI moved from non-contender to one of three in two weeks while OpenAI, Anthropic and others grow through specialization.Rising B200 per-hour prices indicate constrained supply and essentially infinite demand, but coding agents threaten integration moats; open-weight models may capture bounded-upside workloads as cheaper consumer software awaits an AI-native app store.

Harry Stebbings × Julien Bek

Sequoia’s hunter culture rewards conviction over consensus: Citadel Securities came from years of persistence, while a one-vote SpaceX proposal became one of the firm’s best investments.After underestimating Anthropic and later investing $2.5B, Julien Bek sees exponential AI, agent traffic reaching parity with humans, and outcome-priced Sierra as major signals, while warning that new AI labs face brutal selection risk.

Koji × 黄一

22岁的黄一约一年半完成五轮、合计超过一亿美元融资，把RP One发布和量产设为A轮milestone，商业闭环留到B轮。萝博派对以开源本体卡位模型公司与硬件厂商的missing layer，RP0月出货约100台；RP One预计第4季度发布、明年约2000台，但行业到2030年或仅10到15家公司走出。