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Lessons from Sahir Azam

Sahir Azam is a partner at Index Ventures and the former Chief Product Officer at MongoDB, where he helped shift the company from an open source database to a consumption based cloud platform.
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Monthly Learnings from the Daily Digest: July 2026

July's clearest pattern was a retreat from unconstrained experimentation and unlimited token spending. Unit economics and measurable business results moved to the foreground.
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Daily Digest - 2026-07-31

Details a new approach for generative models that scales inference compute to improve generalization, adding to standard data and parameter scaling. Researchers identified "Exploration" as a third pretraining axis that consistently improves text, image, and video models.
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Daily Digest - 2026-07-30

How OpenAI builds fast, cheap agent infrastructure internally. OpenAI shared five rules for keeping agent harnesses cheap and fast.
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Lessons from Joon Sung Park

Joon Sung Park is a researcher and entrepreneur whose work bridges artificial intelligence and social computing. He is best known for creating generative agents—computational models of humans that use large language models to simulate social behaviors, memories, and routines at scale.
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Lessons from Liam Fedus

Before co founding Periodic Labs, computer scientist and physicist Liam Fedus designed the Switch Transformer at Google Brain and helped build ChatGPT and GPT 4 at OpenAI.
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Lessons from Glenn Fogel

As CEO of Booking Holdings, Glenn Fogel oversees a travel portfolio that includes Booking. com, Kayak, Priceline, and OpenTable.
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Lessons from Lou Shipley

Lou Shipley is a three time software CEO who turned struggling compliance tools like Black Duck into high value security acquisitions. He now teaches sales and entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, drawing directly on his own time running companies.

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