Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more.
Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as
Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Washington Lifts the Claude Fable Five Ban
03:58 OpenAI Offers the US Government a 5% Stake
13:18 Why This Could Invite Much More Than 5% Government Control
22:14 DeepSeek Building Its Own Chip & Anthropic Talking to Samsung
36:22 Meta Launches Cloud Business — Plan B or Masterstroke?
42:55 Nvidia's "Compute Now, Pay Later" Scheme
50:32 Kling Raises $2.8B at $18B — Why Did Sora Fail Where Kling Didn't?
57:46 Open Source Plateau: Are Cheaper Models Actually Delivering Results?
1:07:16 Microsoft & Amazon Embed Engineers in Enterprise
1:17:04 Ashton Kutcher Leaves Soun...