28 May 2026etn. Live at Panathenea
David Shim: Read AI's Hypergrowth and Digital Twins
Read AI co-founder and CEO David Shim explains the meeting note-taker's 5 million MAUs, 40-50k daily signups and near-zero marketing spend, powered by a 'narration layer' that captures how people react in meetings rather than just transcripts. He traces his analytics career — youngest US stockbroker at 17, Placed sold to Snapchat for ~$200M, Foursquare CEO — and the founding moment of spotting ESPN reflected in a Zoom participant's glasses. He details the sub-100-person org, the move from system of record to system of action via Cloud/OpenAI connectors, MCP and digital twins, and lessons like not planning for exits and under-spending his Series B at Placed.
Aikido Security & Singular: New AI Attack Vectors and the Mythos Hype
Closing out the Aikido Security & Singular segment, Madeline Lawrence recounts Aikido's viral RSA Conference booth — a recreated Matrix set with 'Neo' lookalikes hired off the internet, a spray-painted fake booth, and her hiding in the screen eating a sandwich — as lessons in standing out. The guests explain that AI and agents have exploded the number of attack vectors: agent-written code, infected packages and skills, and non-developers vibe-coding straight into production, which is why security now requires an AI-native consolidated platform. They also break down the Mythos model release as master-class marketing ('too dangerous to release, named after a god') that loosened security budgets and created urgency regardless of which model ships next.