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Latent Space · 2 min · Oct 20, 2026
Roundtables can make conference meetings more efficient
Anekha Sokhal
Founder & CEO, Moshi
Shawn Wang (swyx)Host · Co-founder, AI Engineer
Wrote “The Rise of the AI Engineer” and founded Smol AI, maker of AI News.
About this segment
Sokhal recalls bank-hosted roundtables where one company met five funds at once. She and swyx discuss on-site group slots as an alternative to repeated one-to-one meetings.
From “The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi”, Oct 20, 2026. Watch the full episode
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“There'd be sort of a roundtable. I would meet five at once.”
Takeaways
- Banks grouped five funds with one company in a roundtable.
- On-site group slots could simplify conference follow-ups.
- A shared meeting can avoid repeating the same questions one-to-one.
In this episode
Full episode- 5:39Moshi turns market data into portfolio-specific insights3:28
- 8:56Moshi recommends connected market insights, not just dashboards4:36
- 14:36Conflicting sources can be a signal, not just a problem3:51
- 18:28Conference conversations expose a product adoption gap2:12
20:29Roundtables can make conference meetings more efficient2:25
- 23:34Moshi is prioritizing customers over hiring2:21Up next
Transcript
Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.
- 20:35
guess because they they need to um ask you things in private it just seems very inefficient to set up so many meetings when you could you could be doing building a business or building a product Yeah, we try and be as helpful to people where we will have an initial meeting, but then really we want to be able to understand what the problem is that you're solving for and then have a plan after that.
- 21:02
So we have got things that we're doing now to stream that because like we're hosting our first webinar because of the amount of inbound that we have. We just can't always do these one-to-ones. And so more generally, when I was in Dubai side, the banks would actually set up these meetings for us. And they'd come to little rooms like this. There'd be sort of a roundtable. I would meet five at once. So like I'd say I'm a CFO of a company and I need to do investor relations.
- 21:33
I'm meeting five funds at once and I would be one of the five funds. And I imagine what we could do for you in future, which I have not got this off the ground yet, but we should do the meetings on site. like you've that makes sense people like saw your talk they want to speak more with you they should be able to sign up and you can do five on one and probably all these questions are the exact same and like that would be a great idea actually because another because we used to do this in finance like that that is such a good idea because we had one where um sometimes you like don't know what the person you're meeting looks like as well okay so you're trying to like take pictures of where you are really it's like hey meet me here meet me and like call them so and i just like an assigned meeting room yeah it's like hey like i mean this whole floor is that but we had to pre-assign
- 22:21
it to other speakers but um we we wanted to do some dynamic allocation i just don't know how to you know get that going i think i'm trying to fill it out yeah so like you're not having to like fly to houston or even like even if they're in new york you don't even have to go to their office everyone just gets in here gets their meetings done you're out i actually think that would be a great idea like have a 30 minute slot for this person and then like sign up just like whatever you want right yeah like smaller one one that is a great idea yeah yeah i mean anything else that