Fireside chats with founders, operators, and investors. Upcoming sessions are listed first; past talks stay here so you can watch the recording or open slides when we have them.
Upcoming· 3
Leadership Fireside Chat
Guest TBA
Intimate conversations with founders, operators, and VPs. Date and speaker to be announced.
Building AI Products
Guest TBA
How operators ship AI features: evaluation, data, and what actually reaches users.
Early-Stage Venture Fireside
Guest TBA
Seed to Series A: how investors read founder-market fit after the last cycle.
Past· 8
2024
Leadership Fireside Chat with Lan Ye
Lan Ye · Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
How she grew from campus hire to CVP of Teams Calling, Meetings, and Devices — and what that path looks like in practice.
2023
Fireside Chat with Julia Liuson
Julia Liuson · President, Developer Division, Microsoft
Strategy and engineering behind Visual Studio, VS Code, Azure DevOps, and GitHub as an independent operating entity.
Fireside Chat with Xuedong Huang
Xuedong Huang · Chief Technology Officer, Zoom
From founding Microsoft’s speech group to Azure AI CTO and now Zoom CTO — human-parity milestones in speech, translation, and vision.
2022
Fireside Chat with Sue Xu
Sue Xu · Managing Partner, Amino Capital
Seed and Series A investing across generative AI, consumer, and SaaS — building a data-moat thesis from scientist to GP.
Fireside Chat with Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang · Founder and Managing Partner, Fusion Fund
Stanford engineer turned VC: commercializing deep tech, AI in healthcare, and backing first-generation founders.
Fireside Chat with Qi Lu
Qi Lu · CEO, Yitu
Search, AI platforms, and building products that have to work at global scale.