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The {Closed} Session

The {Closed} Session

De: Tom Chavez Vivek Vaidya super{set}
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Building a company from scratch is soul-sucking and mind-numbingly hard - but it’s the best thing ever. We know this because we’ve built a couple ourselves - and we’re building a lot more right now. We’ve made a lot of money for our employees, our shareholders, ourselves - we’re proud of that - and that’s why we want to talk about how it’s done. Join us - Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya - in The Closed Session, where we reveal all the joys and sorrows of company building. From the guttermost to the uttermost, we’re not going to hold back.© 2019-2022 Economía
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    How operator scars build defensible AI startups
    Nov 17 2025

    Most operators fail as investors because they can't scale their expertise beyond one-on-one advice calls. Leyla D. Seka, former Salesforce EVP who built the multi-billion dollar AppExchange ecosystem, explains how Operator Collective structures 200+ operators as LPs with carry to systematically deploy operational knowledge across portfolio companies. She reveals why she never invests in founders who think they're going public, how 30-minute operator calls save companies three months of execution time, and why the current AI gold rush mirrors the early cloud adoption cycle at Salesforce.

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    39 m
  • Behind Finix’s self‑serve payment platform

    Behind Finix’s self‑serve payment platform
    Nov 3 2025

    Most payment startups treat compliance like a checkbox instead of survival strategy. Richie Serna, CEO of Finix, sold his previous payments company to Stripe and now competes directly against them, winning 60% of head-to-head deals.

    In this conversation with Tom Chavez, Richie breaks down why payments requires 95% feature completeness before product-market fit clicks, how to build abstraction layers that prevent vendor lock-in with legacy processors, and why focusing on non-technical power users beats pure developer experience when scaling payment infrastructure.

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    42 m
  • How AI accelerates enterprise software development

    How AI accelerates enterprise software development
    Oct 20 2025

    Most enterprise AI pilots fail because companies treat agent development like legacy software projects. Woodson Martin, CEO of OutSystems and former Salesforce executive who led the Krux acquisition, explains why deterministic platforms beat "vibe coding" for production deployments. He breaks down agentic workflow architecture that gives enterprises control over which processes stay human-supervised versus fully automated, shares specific productivity metrics from oil rig safety inspections that prove ROI, and reveals why mortgage underwriting automation hits 98% straight-through processing while preserving customer relationships.

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    36 m
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