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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Golden Skies, Orange Leaves, Good News with Autumn | Z News

The autumn air is crisp and clear.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Podcasts

What's the Endgame for Embodied AI? Dexterous Hands, Underrated Tactile Sensing, and First Principles

What's the Endgame for Embodied AI? Dexterous Hands, Underrated Tactile Sensing, and First Principles

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Conversation with Kaijie Chen: The Gen-Z Founder Who Pivoted Three Times to Build the World's First Personal Agent

Conversation with Kaijie Chen: The Gen-Z Founder Who Pivoted Three Times to Build the World's First Personal Agent

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A group of Gen Zers used flyers, all-nighters, and scholarship money to get this bird game off the ground at ChinaJoy

A group of Gen Zers used flyers, all-nighters, and scholarship money to get this bird game off the ground at ChinaJoy

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Dropping Out of Wharton to Start a Company Back Home: Starting with Mycelium to Get 10% of People Eating the Future

Dropping Out of Wharton to Start a Company Back Home: Starting with Mycelium to Get 10% of People Eating the Future

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2025 AI Mid-Year Review with Yusen Dai: OpenAI's IMO Gold, Moonshot AI K2's Comeback, Agent Adoption, and the Talent War

2025 AI Mid-Year Review with Yusen Dai: OpenAI's IMO Gold, Moonshot AI K2's Comeback, Agent Adoption, and the Talent War

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A Conversation with He Tao, Former XPeng Co-Founder: On My Second Act, Redefining Smart Electric Motorcycles in Southeast Asia

A Conversation with He Tao, Former XPeng Co-Founder: On My Second Act, Redefining Smart Electric Motorcycles in Southeast Asia

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A Conversation with Li Yafei of ClackyAI: Vibe Coding Is the Starting Point; the Endgame Is a Fully Automated Software Delivery Factory

A Conversation with Li Yafei of ClackyAI: Vibe Coding Is the Starting Point; the Endgame Is a Fully Automated Software Delivery Factory

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Three post-90s PhDs from HKU want to give every mobile robot a hippocampus in the future

Three post-90s PhDs from HKU want to give every mobile robot a hippocampus in the future

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A Conversation with Huang Xiang CEO Yi Wang: Five Years, Three National No. 1s, Champion Breakfasts Designed for Kids — How Huang Xiang Is Reshaping Morning Meal Habits

A Conversation with Huang Xiang CEO Yi Wang: Five Years, Three National No. 1s, Champion Breakfasts Designed for Kids — How Huang Xiang Is Reshaping Morning Meal Habits

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A Conversation with the Founders of YuanGu and TangSuo: The Pursuit of Beauty Is a Lifelong Quest

A Conversation with the Founders of YuanGu and TangSuo: The Pursuit of Beauty Is a Lifelong Quest

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