🎯 On the Docket:00:00 – Breaking News & Analysis01:22 – Meta's Billion-Dollar AI Talent Raid and Zuck's Leadership Crucible06:00 – The Soham Parekh Scandal: Serial Engineer Moonlights for Multiple YC Startups11:00 – UK Innovation Surge: AI Drives 30% of Venture Capital to Record Highs13:00 – Wimbledon's AI Controversy and OpenAI's Security Crackdown28:43 – Yunsu (鄧潤雪) Tang, CEO of Synchro, is building a stakeholder intelligence platform that synchronizes data from policy announcements, news, and social media to generate actionable insights. A two-time founder and TEDx speaker who moved from Hong Kong's growth-obsessed startup culture to London's detail-oriented product focus, she discusses how her background in financial communications at FGS Global (acquired by KKR) informs her AI-powered approach to stakeholder mapping. Tang emphasizes the importance of integrated communications strategy, arguing that business development, sales, marketing, and PR cannot be separated in today's market, while leveraging both Western and Chinese platforms to maintain her competitive advantage in cross-cultural market research.58:59 – Ivan Suhinin, CTO of wcard & malagastartups, has assembled the largest English-speaking tech community in Andalusia with 1,400+ members while organizing 110+ events annually. Originally from Belarus with 20 years in IT, he's working with co-founder Dan Marquez to transform Spain's Costa del Sol into a startup hub by connecting Malaga's talent pool with Marbella's capital and government support. In the conversation, he outlines his ambitious plan to create a founders factory through quarterly 3-month bootcamps, targeting aerospace and agritech as regional strengths while building bridges between traditionally risk-averse Spanish culture and entrepreneurial ambition, with expectations of billion-dollar companies emerging within the decade.01:30:26 – Erifili, founder and CEO of The Z-Link, operates a global Gen Z-focused agency with 30,000 members across 50+ countries, helping brands from Pepsi to IKEA authentically connect with younger audiences. Author of "Design Your Life, Your Career, Your Way" and builder of a 13,000-subscriber Substack reaching every US state except Wyoming, she reveals why the 8-second attention span myth is misleading and how Gen Z actually craves long-form content when it provides genuine value. In the conversation, she breaks down successful strategies like community-first content pillars, authentic brand engagement in unexpected spaces, and the power of interactive co-creation, while explaining how her team's group chats serve as the primary research tool for understanding viral content patterns.02:00:20 – Cory Johnson, email marketing specialist at Synthesia responsible for 14+ million annual emails, has pioneered an unconventional approach to LinkedIn content by live-streaming business-adjacent games like Tomb Raider and Schedule One to build authentic engagement.02:30:25 – Rami, co-founder and CEO of Querio, has developed an AI data analytics SaaS that enables teams to query databases without SQL knowledge while pioneering breakthrough strategies in AI Engine Optimization (AEO). Lebanese-born and London-based, he recently gained ChatGPT recommendations for his platform through systematic manipulation of search algorithms, understanding that different AI models prefer different sources (ChatGPT favors TechCrunch via Bing, Claude prefers Wikipedia via Brave, Perplexity targets Reddit and LinkedIn). In the conversation, he explains his contrarian approach to capital efficiency despite investor pressure to spend faster, arguing that fundraising should be treated as an operational necessity rather than a validation milestone, while revealing the dark tactics some startups use to game Wikipedia and other trusted sources for AI visibility.
