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Vlad Lupenko: Building Impress, the AI-Powered Dentistry Empire
Impress co-founder Vlad Lupenko explains how the Barcelona company vertically integrates clear-aligner clinics with in-house software across 10 countries, passing $100M revenue with 1,000+ staff. He details AI treatment planning cut from eight hours to two, weekly app scans now 80% machine-reviewed with just 30 central doctors handling 100,000 patients, Olympic skater Alyssa Liu as a patient, and an upcoming free oral-health scanning feature. After he leaves, the hosts briefly tease Lovable's 'bee swarming' growth tactic before Axel joins.
Axel Mittbauer: Base, Stablecoins & the Agentic Economy
Axel Mittbauer, Base's West Europe lead, introduces Base as Coinbase's Ethereum L2 aiming to onboard the next billion users and a million builders, covering Base Batches, stablecoin volumes of ~$12.5T a year, regulatory clarity, and Coinbase's X402 machine-to-machine payment protocol. He walks through his piece 'Your Agent Lacks Dopamine' on making agentic UX engaging, predicts AR as a future interface layer, and afterwards the hosts chat about Anthropic's new interactive graphs.