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Articles
OpenAI and Anthropic CPOs on Conversation: The Core Skill for Product Managers in the AI Era Is Writing Evals | Z Talk
A 60% accuracy rate is the "Mendoza Line" for AI products.
Vozo AI's Changyin Zhou: Early Google X Engineer, Video Product Goes Viral on Product Hunt, 6 Million Global Users | Z Talk
The market for video creation is a $100 billion opportunity that's severely underestimated.
Betting on AI Startups Four Years After a VAM Gamble: The Full Story of a Data Startup's Acquisition
I was going to ring the bell; how could I have sold the company after just four years?
127 startups founded by Tsinghua alumni, all backed by this one fund
On average, one out of every six companies ZhenFund has invested in comes from Tsinghua University.
It Took Six Product Pivots to Find PMF — This Company Is Sharing Its 10,000-Word Methodology | Z Talk
Get these five steps right, and you'll be well on your way to finding product-market fit.
From Rejected by VCs to a $15 Billion Market Cap: Toast CEO's 10,000-Word Entrepreneurship Manifesto | Z Talk
Every new hire at Toast must spend one quarter working in frontline sales.
Golden Skies, Orange Leaves, Good News with Autumn | Z News
The autumn air is crisp and clear.
A Flying Action Camera That Raised Over $4.4 Million on Overseas Crowdfunding | Z Talk
Within two hours of going live, the crowdfunding campaign hit one million dollars.
Yichao Ji, Peak: A Small Step Toward Replicating OpenAI o1 — Steiner Open-Source Model Progress Report | Z Talk
Since OpenAI released o1, I've been working on reproducing it as a side project in my spare time.
Horizon Robotics Goes Public: We Can Finally Talk About Kai Yu's Story | Z Talk
How can a risk-averse entrepreneur pull off something incredibly risky?
Podcasts
Day 500 of the Agent Era: What's Disappearing, What's Being Born, and Why We Should Stop Investing in GUI-Thinking Software
A Conversation with Kunpeng: Interactive Movie Games With Real Actors Suddenly Took Off — The Dream He'd Chased for Ten Years Finally Got Noticed
Dropped Out of Columbia to Build the First General-Purpose Learning Agent
A Conversation with ZhenFund Partner Yuan Liu: One Week with Manus, Ten Years with Red Xiao
New Year 2026 Conversation with Koji: The Year of R
Tsinghua PhD Crosses the Desert, Searching for the iPhone Moment of Green Hydrogen
The First Streamer in China to Beat *Black Myth: Wukong* with Motion Controls, Defeating a Boss with a Wave of a USB Device
Tsinghua '97 Alumnus Qin Yudi: From an Abandoned Garage to AI Energy Management, He's Always Been Flying Close to the Ground
A Conversation with Jekka Founder on Human-Level AI Agent Customer Service: AI's Boundaries, Large-Scale Implementation, and the Endgame
