Another example of how going from 80% to 100% in the AI world is incredibly valuable. For AI videos, that means going from a 5-second clip to a coherent video. Excited to see where we will be in a couple of months!

Exclusive: Listen Labs, a Sequoia-backed startup that uses AI to conduct thousands of voice interviews simultaneously for customer research, has raised a total of $27 million. trib.al/QpZ4Ce2

AI writes your code. Now it talks to your users. We raised $27M from @Sequoia to build Listen Labs. Listen runs thousands of interviews to uncover what users want, why they churn, and what makes them convert. See how Microsoft and Canva use it:

1/ We (Conviction) are excited to double-down on Alfred Wahlforss, Florian Juengermann and the team at Listen Labs. listenlabs.ai/founder-letter

we (Conviction) are excited to double-down on our investment in Listen Labs Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann were part of the first batch of Embed back in 2023. we thought they were obviously brilliant, intense and driven then

"To build a great company, you need to write code and talk to users." - Florian Juengermann (co-founder of Listen Labs) "AI agents can now write code, so what becomes important is building the right thing and having the right feedback." "That's what we are building: telling the AI

Listen has raised $27M in seed + Series A led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Conviction and Pear VC

Our first salesperson has closed $1M ARR in May. Now I’m building the dream team. Here's 6 roles I'm looking for: - technical staff - csm - product design - sales - growth - ops tag someone you know & if I hire them, I'll give you $10,000.

Grok 4 still clearly fails my private "find the bug in this 50-line function" test. No model solves it today, but: - Claude 4 Sonnet & Opus at least understand the problem after giving a strong hint. - Gemini 2.5 Pro agrees with the hint but still does not fully understand the

It's always astonishing to see where flight price optimization algorithms end up. All direct flights from London to San Francisco in August cost at least $2,720, while you can book round-trip direct flights for $518 total. Business travelers still need to buy one-way, I guess.

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This game is not trivial to figure out as a human. I’m a bit skeptical of the Humans: 100% figure. But I’m sure LLM agents will solve it pretty soon.