This week on Built 2 Scale, we call the market top with multiple bubble indicators: Wang's $14B acquisition raising eyebrows, Chamath's SPAC return, and a $30K baby naming service in San Francisco. Plus: OpenAI's explosive week with Sora video generation and the Stripe/Shopify shopping partnership that could capture billions in commerce revenue.

Built 2 Scale | Episode 26

Timestamps:

00:00:00 AFL Grand Final Weekend & Les Grossman Dance Plans

00:02:04 Nano Banana to Veo 3: AI Meme Evolution at Grand Finals

00:04:48 San Francisco VC Party Intel & Scale AI Drama

00:07:27 Wang's $14B Payday vs Steve Jobs' $10B Lifetime Earnings

00:09:49 Top of the Bubble: $30K Baby Naming & Chamath's SPAC Return

00:12:30 Las Vegas Police Deploy Cybertruck Fleet for Pursuits

00:14:56 Robot UFC Fighting: Peak San Francisco Bubble Indicator

00:15:26 Maximo Raises $9M to Automate Finance Teams

00:17:14 Thanks for Watching: AppLovin CEO on A-Players & Automation First

00:18:39 Hiring Strategy: Domain Experts vs Pure Automation Approach

00:21:45 Figma's Jevons Paradox: AI Efficiency Creates More Demand

00:23:23 OpenAI's Sora Video Model with Integrated Sound Launch

00:26:48 OpenAI x Stripe x Shopify: The Shopping Agent Infrastructure

00:30:24 Google Launches AI Mode Visual Search for Shopping Competition

00:31:45 Where LLMs Get Training Data: 40% Reddit, 26% Wikipedia

00:34:13 Periodic Labs: $300M "Founding Round" for AI Physical Sciences

00:38:10 Jensen Huang's Energy Arbitrage: $35B Revenue Per Gigawatt

00:42:09 Dyna Robotics: 99% Success Rate with Generalized Learning

00:46:51 Tesla RoboTaxi Cost Advantage: 50 Units vs Waymo's 6

00:49:09 Tesla Gigafactory China: 98% Automated Manufacturing Floor

00:52:18 Stripe's ACP Protocol: Commerce Infrastructure for Agent Economy

00:56:05 Founder Files: Keith Rabois' 8am Office Arrival Test

00:57:23 Building in Public: Hiring Talent from Your Media Diet

00:59:10 Personal Operating Systems: Brian Halligan's CEO Question

01:01:49 Strategy Session Advice: Henry Ford's "Faster Horses" Wisdom

THIS EPISODE COVERS:

AI Product Launches & Partnerships:

- OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation with integrated sound

- The OpenAI + Stripe + Shopify partnership creating conversational commerce infrastructure across millions of stores

- Google's AI Mode visual search with voice launching 24 hours later to compete for shopping dominance

- Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) establishing transaction standards for agent-to-agent commerce

- Periodic Labs' $300M bet on AI solving humanity's hardest physical science problems

People Referenced:

- Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) - BG2 Pod interview

- Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - ACP protocol announcement

- Toby Lütke (Shopify CEO) - 15-year keylogging experiment

- Keith Rabois (investor) - 8am office test methodology

- Brian Halligan (HubSpot founder) - personal operating systems

- Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) - AlphaFold training methodology

- Alex Wang (Scale AI CEO) - Meta acquisition concerns

and more!

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