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We decode tech & market signals together, salon-style with a small, curated group - so you can operate, invest, & decide better.
Past attendees have been founders, investors & operators who work in tech or tech-adjacent roles across industries
- Our Why
AI can build a financial model, summarize an earnings call, or map a competitive landscape in seconds.
What AI cannot do is connect the dots around what's happening right now - a technology, a trend, a business, an idea, a decision. Or what a moment like that actually signals.
That takes human judgment, experience, & taste. The kind you only build by studying real examples, arguing them out loud, & testing your read against people who see it differently than you do.
If you want a space to actually grow your thinking IRL & connect with people who match that energy, this is it.
That's what Tech x Market Decoders is for.
Every week, we pick one topic - a company or startup everyone's talking about, a technology reshaping an industry, or a shift in how things are being built or bought. Bring your laptop.
Here's how it works:
Check-in & Intros
15 minutes - decode solo. Quiet research time. Dig into the news, the product, the tech, the data. No talking, just thinking.
45 minutes - decode together. We open the floor. What did you find? Where do you disagree? What's convincing, what's overhyped, what would change your mind? This is where judgment actually gets built - not from reading alone, but from testing your read against someone else's.
Last few minutes - wrap up.
You'll leave with a sharper read on the topic than you walked in with, & a few new perspectives you hadn't considered. That's the whole point.
This week's topic: Let's Talk About Jev!
A tiny AI startup called Jev just went viral for doing the opposite of what every other AI company is doing - it doesn't chat at all. Built by an ex-OpenAI researcher, Jev only returns fast, structured decisions (yes/no, multiple choice, confidence scores) instead of generating text, & it's reportedly fielding funding offers north of $10 billion just over a week after launch.
We're decoding: Is Jev a genuinely new category of AI - a faster, cheaper layer sitting underneath the chatbots - or is this hype-cycle enthusiasm for something that's really just a narrow classifier with good marketing?
Supporting questions: Does the "specialized model" approach threaten the big general-purpose LLMs, or complement them? What would it take for Jev's $10B valuation talk to actually make sense a year from now?
Come as you are - operator, investor, builder, or just someone who reads too much tech or business news & wants to discuss with smart people.
Prep not required but feel free to do some home research before you arrive if you'd like.
**Refunds available up to 48 hours before the session. After that, we are sorry but the fee is non-refundable.
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