Research
How the best AI companies get built.
We sit inside the VC network and recruit the people frontier teams are made of. This is what we see: deep team teardowns and field notes on the talent market underneath the headlines.
Field NoteAug 8, 2026
I screened 237 resumes from Stanford and Berkeley. Here's what still separates the best.
When everyone looks strong on paper, the resume stops being a signal. Three patterns that still tell the real top talent apart.
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TeardownJul 15, 2026
Xemini Assemble — Elorian AI
How the researchers behind Gemini's data and Apple's foundation models reunited to chase native visual reasoning.
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TeardownJun 20, 2026
Anatomy of a $643M Team
How a ~20-person MIT spinout built the full inference stack and sold to Nebius for $643M in ten months.
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