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Samuel Beek (Schematik): $4.6M Pre-Seed & Cursor for Hardware
Samuel Beek reveals the news he kept quiet on his last appearance: Schematik raised a $4.6M pre-seed led by Lightspeed. He describes Schematik as 'a cursor for hardware' that turns a prompt into a parts list, wiring instructions, and deployable code, and tells how a Saturday launch — forced when Wired moved its story up — reached 200k+ people on X and ~100k on LinkedIn, arguing weekends are an underused launch window. He says in a post-AI world founders must own distribution by making their own content, explains the mission of making hardware as easy as building a website, points to personal-hardware trends like cyberdecks, DIY synths, and a Linear designer building his daughter a speaker, and teases a Hugging Face-style marketplace for hardware designs.
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Stevan, Squads CEO, on Altitude, Stablecoins & Agentic Finance
Squads co-founder and CEO Stevan describes the company's two arcs: a crypto operating system securing about $10B in assets and $2B in stablecoins, and Altitude, a financial operating system letting traditional businesses run payroll and vendor payments on stablecoins. He explains why blockchains' deterministic execution pairs well with AI agents for trust, how early customers already used the product like a business bank account, and where the space is heading — agentic finance, DeFi yield, and RWA tokenization under the US clarity act.
Schematic's Samuel: Hiring & Veed's Supportive Founder Culture
Samuel, the Schematic founder who recently left Veed, invites viewers to try the product at schematic.io and to message him on Twitter about joining the team. Asked why Veed founder Sabah so publicly supports employees leaving to build startups, he credits Veed's founder- and side-project-friendly culture and says celebrating departing people beats a sour goodbye. The hosts thank him and joke about having him back when he raises his pre-seed.