Throwing a 100-day banquet for the "Crossing" podcast — our troublemaking extrovert selves welcome you to keep co-creating energy with us

The Crossing podcast hit 100 days and 5,000+ subscribers, so we slapped the table and made a call: let's throw a party!

100-Day Celebration

For various reasons, we only had two weeks to pull this together. Wanting to keep it "small and beautiful," we initially told our venue partner, LFSky Center, to plan for 50 people. We completely didn't expect that less than 48 hours after the poster dropped, all 100 tickets sold out — so we had to shut down sales to control quality. (Sorry to everyone who later asked about tickets; we'll definitely meet again next time.)

When we scouted the venue beforehand, we discovered that the top floor of LFSky offers a 360-degree view of the Shanghai skyline. That feeling of "owning" the city — we couldn't wait to share it with everyone.

So. May 25. Beautiful weather. From 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., packed solid. A live linkup with Silicon Valley. Discussion of GPT-4o. A PMF session where every guest stood up to share. And finally, demos from five AI-related projects...

The feedback we heard most: people felt the positive energy here. So much so that even after we'd left, several groups were still holding their own "side meetings."

Mission accomplished: find more fellow travelers, collectively complete a deeply connected shared action.

We later learned that some friends came from as close as Hangzhou and as far as Guangxi and Shenzhen. One friend flew in and back the same day just for this. Thank you all for the support. As we said from the start, this was our first event and prep was rushed — no need to be forgiving, call out our shortcomings directly. We hope to keep creating and sharing energy with more of you at future events.

Finally, another thank you to everyone who sent gifts to Crossing, to our partners, every speaker, and everyone who came. See you at the next one!

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Salon Content

Opening Presentation:

Koji — Crossing Host: "Be an Active Actor in the AI Era"

Silicon Valley Calling:

AI entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley joined via video for 10-minute presentations + 5-minute Q&A

• Michael Guan — Founder, Final Round AI: "Building America's Fastest-Growing AI Job Search Assistant"
• Etan Ginsberg — Founder, Martian: "Model Routing: The Most Optimal Way to Use LLMs"
• Casey Zhou — CTO, CollOV AI: "From Generating Homes to Generating Worlds"

Shanghai Roundtable I:

After GPT-4o, What New Products Will This New Level of Human-Computer Interaction Unlock?

• Moderator: Ronghui — Crossing Host
• Ben — Managing Director, Oasis Capital
• Xiuhann Hu — CEO, NieTA
• Li Ou — Senior Product Director, AI Agents, SenseTime
• Can Zhang — Managing Director, Linear Capital

Shanghai Roundtable II:

The 100 Pitfalls of Finding PMF for AI Products

• Moderator: Koji — Crossing Host
• Frank Zhu — Founder/CEO, Lightchain (AI Fashion)
• hidecloud — AI Product Manager
• Yanchen Yan — Co-founder, Dify.AI

Actors' Salon:

"5-Minute Live Shares from Active Actors": An AI startup project or AI creation — hand-rolled bots, images, video, music, etc.

Special Session:

Citic Press Corporation: Guided reading of Fei-Fei Li's memoir The Worlds I See

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Thank Yous

Grateful for the love from friends. CITIC, Martell, SATURNBIRD, AAAD, S.Pellegrino, The Fair, QuadHA, and Haro Marketing sent all kinds of gifts — so there was coffee, dessert, books, and drinks on hand.

Thanks to our co-organizers: aligns.ai (an active Stanford-based Silicon Valley nonprofit AI community) and the CPA Chinese Podcast Community.

Special thanks to my good friend zzh, founder of AAAD, who sent a whole table of beautiful madeleines as our 100-day celebration cake. Stunning!