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Enzo Cavalie
Artificial Intelligence
Venture Capital
Evalion
Voice AI
Freepik
Boldvoice
AI Agents
Act One Ventures
Happyrobot
Techstars
Slash
Auditboard
Carlos Chávez
Silicon Valley
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The outsider’s guide to Silicon Valley. I came here as a foreigner to learn what truly sets the best apart: the decisions, strategies, and mindsets that outsiders often see more clearly than insiders. Each week, I go deep with founders, investors, and operators to uncover the real reasons behind their success. Past guests include the founders of Vercel, Auth0, Nubank, Mercado Libre and Kavak.

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HappyRobot went from zero to a $1.2B valuation in three years.

DHL, Repsol and Koch Industries on the customer list. Four industries, three continents. The company just raised a $150M Series C led by Prism Capital and Eurazeo.

A little over a year ... more

BoldVoice reached $10M+ in ARR with a team of seven.

Five million users across 150 countries. In January, the company raised a $21M Series A led by Matrix.

What looks like a simple coaching app is powered by proprietary AI models trained to hear ho... more

GitHub Copilot started the AI coding market. Today, barely a serious developer touches it.

Not even a vibe coder like me: we mostly live in Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

These players are at war to own the coding agent, maybe the biggest AI mark... more

Rodrigo Schmidt grew up in a fishing town in the south of Brazil. No money, no network

Fifteen years later he was leading the engineering behind Instagram's feed, the personalization machine billions of people open every day.

His take on AI agents:... more

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Anada Lakra
Co-founder and CEO of BoldVoice, an AI speech coach for non-native English speakers
BoldVoice
Episode: BoldVoice: How 7 People Built a $10M AI Company
Luis Bitencourt Emilio
SBP of Copilot agents at GitHub and a Wikimedia Foundation board member
GitHub Copilot / Wikimedia Foundation
Episode: GitHub's Plan for the Agents War Isn't an Agent
Rodrigo Schmidt
Co-founder of Vetto AI; former Instagram personalization lead
Vetto AI
Episode: The AI Playbook Behind Instagram's Feed | Rodrigo Schmidt (Meta, Vetto)
Santiago Zavala
Friend, guest from 500 Startups mentioned in intro
500 Startups
Episode: 5 Ways LatAm Founders Break Into Silicon Valley
Carlos Chávez
Founder and CEO of Braven, an AI agents platform automating operations for insurance companies in the US
Braven
Episode: How I Sold 8 US B2B Clients in 3 Weeks as a Foreigner | Carlos Chavez, Braven
Alejandro Guerrero
Co-founder of Act One Ventures; LA-based seed fund
Act One Ventures
Episode: How Act One VC Became One of LA’s Top Seed Funds
Victor Cardenas
Founder of Slash
Slash
Episode: The 25-year-old Venezuelan coming for US banks with AI | Victor Cardenas, Slash
David Cohen
Founder and CEO of Techstars
Techstars
Episode: Techstars’ CEO: The Venn Diagram Of Billion Dollar Ideas (How To Create Unicorns)
Joaquín Aplan
CEO of Freepik
Freepik
Episode: Freepik CEO: "The Day I Realized AI Would Destroy Us" — A Company That Refused To Die

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Host of Startupable; guides conversations with founders, investors, and operators to uncover decision-making and mindsets that drive success.

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0 to $1.2B: HappyRobot’s anti-Silicon Valley playbook
Q: What makes Forward Deployment Engineers a long-term differentiator?
FDEs enable a continuous, on-site collaboration with customers that reveals real value, guides future deployments, and builds a virtuous cycle where each new use case funds the next expansion, making it a lasting competitive edge.
0 to $1.2B: HappyRobot’s anti-Silicon Valley playbook
Q: How did you decide to go global so early?
The decision was driven by customer needs—our clients are intrinsically global, and expanding regionally (Europe, LatAm, APAC) allowed us to serve them where they operate, which also accelerates product feedback and deployment across markets.
BoldVoice: How 7 People Built a $10M AI Company
Q: How do you see BoldVoice evolving with AI advances and team growth?
The team emphasized staying lean, AI-empowered, and user-focused, expanding the product to longer-form feedback and real-life meeting scoring while maintaining a close link between research and product.
BoldVoice: How 7 People Built a $10M AI Company
Q: How did you approach pricing given the niche but high ROI for language coaching?
BoldVoice priced similarly to a premium Duolingo subscription to balance accessibility with value, aiming to serve immigrants and professionals in various economic contexts while avoiding price as a barrier to career progression.
BoldVoice: How 7 People Built a $10M AI Company
Q: How did AI play into BoldVoice, given the constraints of existing technology at the outset?
Anada explains they built internal models and a dedicated Audio AI Lab to hear and evaluate speech with human-like nuance, retraining continuously with coaches' feedback and user data to achieve high accuracy and actionable guidance.

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