Claude Blue: All of Silicon Valley Is Depressed

Claude Blue is a term I coined, but it names something real: the AI depression now spreading through Silicon Valley. A conversation with a senior AI engineer at Meta, and with a Silicon Valley founder. In 2025, AI hit the coding world. Two camps argued fiercely: hand coding entirely to

Taste, Data, and Trust: daytrip Meets Snowflake

The evening held two very different conversations. One came from a person who turned taste, the vaguest of standards, into a business on Instagram. The other was about why enterprise data is so stubbornly hard. Two sessions with no apparent overlap met at the same point: good judgment comes from

Demand in the Provinces, People in the City: A Friday Breakfast

Friday, 7 a.m. The second Bloom Mixer opened with breakfast. This time I attended as a guest myself. I am usually the one opening the room, and sitting down as a participant was a first. Reading the applications tells you who wants to be in the room. This breakfast

The AI Creator Working with Disney, the Foreign Ministry, and CJ

📅 July 2, 2026 🤝 Bloom × MARU × KEEPKWAN 🎤 AI creator KeepKwan 🎟️ Event page Anyone can make something with AI. Turning what you make into a business is a completely different skill, and the key, as this evening made clear, is originality and story. Putting Keep in front of his own name The

Agents at Work: Amazon, Classmethod, and AI Safety

📅 June 30, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Classmethod Korea × AWS 🎤 Hyunseo Lim (attorney) · Haeon Park (CTO, AIM Intelligence) · Yongho Choi (AWS) The era where execution, not intelligence, is the edge The theme of the night was blunt: intelligence no longer matters the way it did. High IQ, deep knowledge, long careers, AI has

AI for Growth Marketing: Problem Definition Wins

The battleground of AI-era marketing is not learning new features. It is the ability to define problems and explain them precisely to AI. 📅 June 18, 2026 🤝 Bloom × AB180 × Reply Marketing 🎤 Sungpil Nam (CEO, AB180) · Jehim Choi (Reply Marketing) The person who defines the problem wins, not the person who

Fieldguide in Seoul: 10x Thinking from Silicon Valley

Set the goal at 10x rather than 10 percent and it actually gets easier: great people gather around big goals, and few competitors attempt challenges that bold. 📅 July 21, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Fieldguide × D.CAMP × ex-Google 🎤 Jin Chang, CEO of Fieldguide · Kibum Kim, Terminal X 10x is easier than 10

Playco on AI-Native Hiring and Authenticity

📅 June 11, 2026 🤝 Bloom × EF × Playco × Tiro 🎤 Teddy Cross, CPO of Playco Insight is not at the conference The speaker was Teddy Cross, co-founder of Playco, the global gaming unicorn valued around one trillion KRW with cumulative funding of 230 billion KRW from Sequoia and others. The biggest message

How Samsung, a District Office, and Solo Builders Adopted AI

Samsung Electronics built an environment that runs Claude Code with confidential code on in-house GPUs and everything else on Bedrock, and a grade-8 civil servant at the Gwangjin District Office quietly built a statutes MCP that became a public-sector innovation case. 📅 June 12, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Yonsei MBA

Winning Proposals in the AI Era

Jihoon Park of AWS calls it TITO, Trash In Trash Out: what decides a proposal is not the 20 to 30 percent written in the RFP but the 70 to 80 percent dug out of the field. Cliwant CEO Junho Cho: the essence of a winning proposal does not change

Inside the Frontier Labs: Google, xAI, and Thinking Machines

Joseph Kim, who passed through Google DeepMind, xAI, and Thinking Machines Lab, unpacked the real working intensity of the frontier labs, how they operate, and the competing definitions of AGI. 📅 May 14, 2026 🤝 Bloom × AB180 × xAI Macrohard 🎤 Joseph Kim, ex-xAI · Thinking Machines Lab The speaker carries a rare resume:

MyRealTrip, Jocoding, and the Economics of Automation

MyRealTrip halved its support headcount and scaled product registration from 25 a week to 5,000 a day, by layering a chatbot on top of existing systems instead of replacing them. Jocoding has run a static service with no servers and no operating costs for five years of monthly revenue,