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Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari

Sep 13, 2026 · 2:01:29

Luca Ferrari, co-founder of Bending Spoons, argues the company aspires to build "the best company there ever was" by favoring raw talent over experience. He explains how a centralized talent team screens candidates using over 100 signals, why hiring managers get trust instead of bonuses, and why the company abolished job titles. He describes extreme ownership and saturating capacity—giving people more work than they can complete—and a 50-plus tool operating system that lets him run Evernote, bought for about $200 million, with 20 people. The group reaches roughly $3 billion in run rate revenue; Ferrari says it buys to hold and transform, never to sell, and bids high and firm, trusting logic over blindly following data. He also explains why Bending Spoons is going public.

Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power

Sep 6, 2026 · 1:16:20

David Senra interviews Base Power co-founder Zach Dell about building an energy company to make electricity affordable and reliable. Dell says the grid is too small, as AI drives demand growth from 2% to 10% a year, and Base's fix is owning home batteries as a fleet—charging when power is cheap, discharging when expensive, providing backup—so customers pay 1/20th to 1/40th of owning one outright. He explains the counterposition—selling electricity, not batteries; 10-year megawatts-as-a-service deals for utilities like CoServe; and a compounding cost advantage via vertical integration and Base's custom battery, the Base Core. He covers the 'Dad Terminal' with Michael Dell, ex-SpaceX lessons, and Base's habits: monthly updates, North Stars, dashboards, a turtle marking the critical path.

Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible

Aug 23, 2026 · 1:18:17

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, tells David Senra that AI capabilities will outpace society's ability to adapt, and that human connection becomes more valuable as AI improves. Altman cites Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke as the most forward-leaning CEO because he builds with AI himself. He explains OpenAI's platform strategy—one interface, one API—which meant killing Sora and Atlas to focus on general intelligence. He credits Y Combinator's iterative philosophy for making OpenAI possible, even though OpenAI broke the playbook by going four and a half years without shipping a product. He also recalls the first day at Greg Brockman's apartment and says he learns more from successes than failures.