Devang Agrawal

5 Jun 2026AI Biological Weapons, Revolut CEO’s $76B, Zuck’s Agent’s, Perplexity Join Us, EU Sovereignty Bid

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Valentino Pacifici: Sana Labs Pre-Seed to Billion-Dollar Exit

Sana Labs' Valentino Pacifici recounts joining at pre-seed with no product, customers, or revenue and staying through the company's billion-dollar acquisition. He shares two things most early employees get wrong: realizing "you are the stock," and that endurance becomes part of your identity after years of near-death moments. He describes hiring via the "MEH" framework (missionary vs mercenary, excellence, humbleness) and treating international expansion as a re-founding moment that requires builders who know the product inside out. The conversation runs to the end of this part of the episode.

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2:35:2715 min

Airspeed Announces $20M Series A for Enterprise GTM Agents

Devang Agrawal, co-founder and CTO of Airspeed, live-announces the company's $20 million Series A led by DN Capital. He recounts founding Airspeed with fellow Google DeepMind researcher Adam after an LLM dominated a Christmas pub quiz, and explains how Airspeed builds a curated context layer so enterprise LLM agents can understand a business and act on it. He predicts 2026 is the year agents deliver real value in GTM, moving beyond reactive tools like Claude Code toward proactive, self-executing systems driven by high-level company initiatives.

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