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The AI Version of You Will Outperform You — Emad Mostaque

Nov 16, 2025 · 51:27

Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and now Intelligent Internet, argues that within 1,000 days, AI will create digital twins that replace most cognitive jobs, but the bigger risk is cognitive colonialism—a handful of corporations controlling the AI layer closest to people. He explains why he left Stability after it reached 300 million downloads to build open, sovereign AI for healthcare, education, and government, citing a medical model that outperforms human doctors on benchmarks and runs on a laptop. Mostaque warns that graduate jobs are already disappearing, and by 2028 coding jobs as we know them will vanish, replaced by English-language AI. He advocates for universal basic AI alongside universal basic income, and announces Sage, an open-source policy engine for governments, and a ChatGPT alternative that routes through any model at cost. The episode details his vision for distributed civic AI funded via Foundation Coin, where compute goes toward helping people rather than maximizing profit.

This Is How AI Will Reshape Startups Forever | Henry Ward, Co-Founder of Carta

Nov 2, 2025 · 47:52

Henry Ward, co-founder and CEO of Carta, explains how AI is reshaping startups and Carta itself — inverting the source of truth back from data to paper by using LLMs to reconstruct cap tables from legal documents. He shares the early hack that got Carta its first users: offering discounted 409(a) valuations through VC portfolio companies. Ward advises founders to diligence investors by talking to founders who exited with them, warns that seed investors often turn on founders in M&A, and notes the VC market is becoming bimodal — large funds get larger while small emerging managers exploit niches. Carta is now expanding into private equity and credit, which he says are 6–8x larger than venture, and opening offices globally. He also recounts meeting Marc Andreessen, who admitted his firm made a mistake passing on earlier Carta rounds, exemplifying the humility Ward admires.