Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So, what gave you confidence that you would be able to solve this problem and build a product? Did you have an architecture already laid out? Did you have the product design already in place?

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Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Did you quit and then start or did you start while you still had your job? How did you get started?

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Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 1)

Jonathan has found a great, very large niche within the AI-powered Developer Tools space.The idea was born out of deep domain knowledge and customer exposure. VCs love such depth of technical insights and have funded Moderne lavishly.

Colors: Janla II

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Janla II

Janla II | Sramana Mitra, 2019 | Watercolor, Ink | 16  x 20, On Paper

Perplexity’s Valuation Keeps Soaring

According to a recent report, OpenAI’s ChatGPT commands nearly 60% of the GenAI chatbots market in 2025. Microsoft’s Copilot comes a distant second with 14.4% market share, competing closely with Google’s Gemini’s 13.5% share. Perplexity AI is a rapidly growing GenAI engine that accounted for 6.2% of the market.

1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: David Hornik, Lobby Capital (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: So Dave, last question before we go to the pitches. What have you invested in along these lines that you’re really excited about and that you are okay with talking about?

David Hornik: There are a couple. We have invested in a company called Stack AI. These agents are going to allow for real innovation and solutions for folks who have a certain domain expertise, but they don’t have the AI expertise. What Stack has done is create sort of the Zapier of AI.