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Why a $1B Unicorn Aims for 10x, Not 10%

Fieldguide prices on the results customers achieve rather than seat count, and put its first office outside the US in Seoul, CEO Jin Chang told the room.

Coding Interviews Are Over: How a Unicorn Founder Hires

Playco co-founder Teddy Cross says real insight comes not from conference halls but from rough talk in small coffee shops, before it reaches the internet.

From Samsung to a District Office: How Korea Uses AI

Samsung Electronics runs Claude Code on 100 in-house GPUs for 4,000 active users on a workload needing 300 cards, and a civil servant built a statutes MCP.

The RFP Only Tells You 20%: Winning Proposals in the AI Era

The RFP holds only 20 to 30 percent of what decides a proposal and the remaining 70 to 80 percent is dug out of the field, AWS's Jihoon Park says.

An Engineer Who Worked at DeepMind, xAI, and TML on AGI

Joseph Kim was the 100th member of xAI and now works at Thinking Machines Lab, and AB180 runs one internal automation that handled 800 pull requests.

From 25 Listings a Week to 5,000 a Day

MyRealTrip halved support headcount and went from 25 product listings a week to 5,000 a day by layering a chatbot over its existing systems.

Why It Took MyRealTrip Four Years to Go AI-Native

MyRealTrip rebuilt execution and org structure over four years rather than add AI features, and AB180's Sungpil Nam spends 90 percent of his day with AI.

Indifference Is Worse Than Hate: Cluely's Growth Playbook

Cluely cut its creator roster from 100 to 70 and peaked at 100 to 150 million views a month, ex-CMO Daniel Min said of the three-layer funnel.

Why Salespeople Are Not Afraid of AI

Customers now call a vendor only after roughly 60 percent of the decision is made, says Jongil Choi, yet the four-stage buying journey does not change.

A Senior Developer Colleague Moved to Sales. Why?

After about eighteen years in development he moved to sales, arguing vibe coding lets anyone write code while few can still build a real product.

A Day in the Life: Four Hours at the Desk, the Rest Outside

A thirty-person Gangnam meetup of Koreans ran entirely in English, with four speakers each bringing one case that broke expectations and one open question.

AI Gave Back the Joy of Making

A product designer with ten years in a big tech R&D org pays 500 dollars a month for AI tools out of pocket, because making things became fun again.