Lab and founder interviews · No. 29 of 37 AI podcasts
AI & I
AI & I is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Dan Shipper, with a new episode every week.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, mostly on enterprise AI and AI startups.
Also No. 14 of 18 tech podcasts.
- New episodes
- Weekly
- Latest
- Oct 21, 2026
- Moments cut
- 6
- Episodes cut
- 2
What its moments are about
- Enterprise AI3
- AI startups2
- Investing in AI2
- AI agents2
- Coding agents1
- Open-weight models1
Best moments from AI & I
From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.
Why every personal agent at Every died and one company agent won
“there's all the people in the org who don't really. We don't really want to maintain their own cause and then the people who do want to do it like eventually you kind of get tired of it”
AI & I13:38 Back founders whose pivot foot is technology, not a market
“The companies that have been most successful that I've been involved with are ones where the pivot foot was about the technology, not about necessarily market understanding”
AI & I20:46 Builders want complexity, operators want an agent that just works
“Builders want to be exposed to the complexity. Because that's everything you want to do is going in there and tinkering and turning knobs and whatnot.”
AI & I15:41 Vibe coding his own app taught an investor why SaaS still sells
“The other thing I learned was when you just vibe code something for yourself, you have to maintain it.”
AI & I37:23 Work will run on company agents while personal agents stay personal
“I really don't see like, us, or the industry, repeating the chaos of like, every worker gets their coworker, and we're all gonna like double our company size, you know?”
AI & I18:46 How Hartman judges an earned insight in early founders
“I think about that as how many people were in a position to learn the thing that you did.”
AI & I31:47
The best AI & I episodes
Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.
The 2 guests we’ve cut
- Matt HartmanFounder & managing partner, Factorial Capital3 moments
- Willie Williams3 moments
Recent episodes
How a Frontier Team Can Help Your Company Keep Up With AI
Mike Taylor, Arielle Shipper & 4 more
2.6K views · Oct 21
How Hugging Face’s Investor Spots Winners
Matt Hartman · Founder & Managing Partner, Factorial Capital
18:07of 51:02 · Oct 14OpenAI Dots Took Over Our Company
Willie Williams · Head of Platform, Every
11:07of 33:46 · Oct 7


