Stefan Weitz

2 episodes · 3 moments · last on 30 Jan 2026

30 Jan 2026Synthesia $200M Series E, EU Sovereignty, Dario Warns us All, Demis Feeling Bubbly

2:00:185 min

Stefan Weitz: Founding Team of Bing & the Search Wars

After air-horn banter, the hosts welcome Stefan Weitz, co-founder and CEO of HumanX, the AI event company running conferences in San Francisco and Amsterdam. Weitz recounts his Microsoft days on the founding team of Bing, explaining how research showed search engine choice was an autonomic habit, so the team built a "decision engine" with verticals like airfare prediction and shopping reviews around 2009-2010. The hosts draw parallels between that era and today's browser-based agents.

2:05:3716 min

HumanX: AI Trust, Agents in 2026, and Expanding to Amsterdam

Weitz explains HumanX's early emphasis on a trust framework for AI deployment, warning that careless rollouts could cause an "AI winter" like blockchain's. He argues 2025's promised "year of agents" underdelivered due to missing memory and infrastructure frameworks, cites a PwC study of 4,000 CEOs where 55% said AI wasn't delivering material value, and discusses Europe's fragmented, regulation-heavy adoption landscape as the rationale for the new Amsterdam event. He also shares the founding story with John Weiner (Money20/20, Shoptalk) and Andrew Blum, and directs viewers to humanx.co.

28 Jan 2026Synthesia $200M Series E, EU Sovereignty, Dario Warns us All

2:04:3022 min

humanX CEO Stefan Weitz: From Bing to the World's Biggest AI Event

Stefan Weitz, co-founder and CEO of humanX, recounts being on Bing's founding team and building a "decision engine" with airfare prediction and shopping verticals back in 2009-2010. He explains humanX's trust framework, why 2025's "year of agents" underdelivered and 2026 is when enterprises extract real value from AI, citing PwC's study where 55% of 4,000 CEOs say AI isn't delivering material value yet. He also covers Europe's fragmented, regulation-heavy adoption landscape, the founding story with Money20/20's Jon Weiner and Andrew Blum, and points viewers to humanx.co for the San Francisco and Amsterdam events.