Aurélien Nolf
Chief Financial Officer
12 Jun 2026Lovable $500M ARR, Fable 5, UK AI Minister Joins, OpenAI Price Cuts
Alex Holt on Becoming ElevenLabs' Field CTO
Alex Holt, newly appointed Field CTO at ElevenLabs, explains the forward-deployed engineering model he started as the company's first forward-deployed engineer: blended teams that co-build with customers like Trainline and government bodies until in-house teams can run things themselves. He contrasts it with traditional solution engineering, describes it as an expensive R&D-style investment rather than a services revenue line, and shares early impressions of Fable 5 and enterprises moving AI from pilots into production.
Navan CFO Aurelien Nolf on Record Q1 & AI-Powered Travel
Aurelien Nolf, CFO of Navan, walks through a standout Q1: bookings up 50% year over year and past $3B for the first time, revenue up 40%, with a 96 CSAT and 45 NPS. He explains how a decade of travel data powers internally built models used in roughly 30% of cases, the Ava chatbot handling over half of support interactions at human-level satisfaction, the new Google Gemini partnership, and Navan Edge's proactive trip planning — which he puts at about 70% of full autonomy. On geopolitics, he says travelers rebook rather than cancel, with Navan rebooking disrupted flights in ~16 minutes versus 90+ for competitors.