Naval

Part 2 of our new format with three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Sonic), and Max Hodak (Science).
00:35 Vibe Coding A Turbine Blade
04:04 Open Source Compounds China's Advantage
06:12 You Always Want The Smartest Model
08:41 Software Still Needs Hands
10:40 Humans Are Becoming Verifiers
Transcript: http://nav.al/hardware

00:00 Be Credible
03:18 "Yes, And"
04:31 Selfish Honesty
05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love
07:56 Don't Manage, Lead
11:16 Hunt Together
14:51 Feed Your (Good) Obsessions
18:57 Sell the Truth
21:07 Good Deal or No Deal
23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns
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Transcript: http://nav.al/sell
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00:00 The Fully Interconnected Startup
04:14 You Don't Need the Explicit Intranet Anymore
06:55 May You Live in Interesting Times
10:40 Drones Democratize Violence
12:43 Biothreats Could Also Get Democratized
15:09 AI Interfaces Unlock Hardware
17:35 Optimism Requires Creativity
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Transcript: http://nav.al/over
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A Return to Coding 00:15
The Personal App Store 03:08
Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:12
Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:23
A Place for Each Model 14:09
AI Is Eager to Please 17:44
Why Math and Coding? 21:58
The Beginning of the End of Apple's Dominance 24:04
Coding Agents As Customer Service Reps 27:43

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Transcript: http://nav.al/code
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If you want to learn, do 0:00
Vibe coding is the new product management 2:13
Training models is the new coding 6:49
Is traditional software engineering dead? 10:13
There is no demand for average 13:07
The hottest new programming language is English 14:12
AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it 18:36
No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job 22:56
The goal is not to have a job 26:46
AIs are not alive 29:49
AI fails the only true test of intelligence 32:55
Early adopters of AI have an enormous edge 36:49
AI meets you exactly where you are 39:37
Always leverage the best intelligence 43:02
If you can't define it, you can't program it 44:37
The solution to AI anxiety is action 49:37
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Transcript: http://nav.al/ai