Tech & Startups
Technology and startups: funding rounds and exits, product launches, AI companies, growth and SaaS, European startups, founder stories and technology trends.
About this list
This reading list brings together items from the sources selected for Tech & Startups. Open each item at its original source for the complete article, episode or video. This is a selection of current coverage, not a complete archive.
Latest podcasts
Newest first
20VC: The Pro-Rata Battle: Valar Atomics Sues Day One Ventures | Meta Returns to the AI Frontier With Muse Wonder | NVIDIA Eyes $30B Reflection Deal & Jev Raises $870M at a $7.5B Valuation
AGENDA: 04:00 Valar Atomics Sues Seed Investor Day One Ventures Over Pro Rata 17:00 Meta Returns to the AI Frontier With Muse Wonder 20:00 NVIDIA Eyes $30B Reflection Deal as Amazon Circles Decart 26:00 Jev Raises $870M at a $7.5B Valuation—Weeks After Launch 31:00 42 New Decacorns: The AI Boom Overtakes 2021’s Record 36:00 Isomorphic Labs Eyes $50B Valuation in New Funding Talks 46:00 Anthropic Slashes Haiku Prices by 90% as AI Price War Intensifies 52:00 Bending Spoons Slashes Airtable’s Team: What Do Founders Owe Employees?
Meta’s new ‘Muse Wonder’ model: good for AI agents, bad for design
Watch now (24 mins) | 🎙️Meta launched Muse Wonder with claims of frontier agentic performance, so I ran it headlessly through Claude Code against nearly 20 tasks to find out if any of it is true
Episode 854 | How to Find Startup Ideas (Sneak Peek Chapter from My New Book)
Where do the best SaaS ideas actually come from? In this episode, Rob reads a chapter from his new book, Idea to Traction: Stop Building SaaS Nobody Wants in the Age of AI. He walks through the five places problems tend to show up, eight strategic approaches for finding and shaping a product idea (with real examples), and when it makes sense to replicate an existing idea.
How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
Listen now | 🎙️Alex Cornell explains how Muse serves your mom and an engineer with the same interface, and demos a SkyMall-style catalog, golf recaps, and a blog turned podcast
20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Agents Won't Replace Interfaces | Why Enterprises Won't Trust Chinese Models | Why The Jury Is Still Out On The Benefits of Specialised Models with Mike Cannon-Brookes
Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian, the company behind Jira, Confluence, Trello and Loom. Atlassian generated $6.5BN in ARR in 2026, and serves more than 350,000 customers, including over 85% of the Fortune 500. Today, Mike is leading its expansion into enterprise AI through Rovo and the Teamwork Graph, connecting company knowledge with AI agents. AGENDA: 03:00 Do AI Agents Turn Traditional Software Into Just Databases? 16:00 Will Enterprises Ever Trust Chinese AI Models?
Jaan Tallinn would like us to survive
Listen now (67 mins) | An early backer of DeepMind and Anthropic makes the case for an AI pause.
Periodic Labs: A chatbot walks into a laboratory
Listen now (60 mins) | With Liam Fedus and Dogus Cubuk
You have reached the end of this list.
Showing 7 of 7 podcasts
Know a source we’re missing? Tell us about it