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The {Closed} Session

Tom Chavez -- super{set}
The {Closed} Session
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  • The {Closed} Session

    How agentic personalization creates enterprise advantage

    05/04/2026 | 16 mins.
    Most enterprise AI delivers generic responses when you need role-specific intelligence. Peter Day, General Partner at super{set} with a PhD in machine learning and 8 years leading product at Quantcast, breaks down why agentic personalization creates unbreachable competitive moats. He reveals the architectural patterns for building software that learns individual preferences in real-time, explains why role collapse will eliminate 60-80% of traditional engineering positions, and details the shift from seat-based SaaS pricing to outcome-driven models that compound user value.
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    Why augmented intelligence (not automation) will define enterprise AI

    04/13/2026 | 31 mins.
    Most enterprise AI failures aren't model problems—they're data architecture problems. Vivek Vaidya, serial entrepreneur with 25+ years building enterprise software and current CTO/Co-founder of super{set}, explains why vector databases alone can't solve enterprise AI and why knowledge graphs are foundational for production systems. He breaks down the critical difference between augmented intelligence (AI proposes, human approves) versus full automation, details how governance layers must respect existing enterprise data policies, and reveals why non-deterministic LLM outputs create compliance nightmares that kill enterprise adoption.
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    How auction theory is reshaping finance and compute trading

    03/30/2026 | 28 mins.
    Most financial markets still run on one-to-one matching when optimization engines could unlock trillions. Kelly Littlepage co-founded OneChronos after exits to major financial institutions, building the fastest-growing US equities market processing $20 billion daily using Nobel Prize-winning combinatorial auction theory. He breaks down why capital markets lagged behind ad markets in auction sophistication, how machine learning solves NP-hard matching problems at Wall Street speed, and why GPU compute markets need combinatorial auctions to handle non-fungible infrastructure across latency zones and chip architectures.
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    How to systematically remove yourself as your business's biggest bottleneck

    03/16/2026 | 45 mins.
    Most founders think scaling means hiring more people, but 66% of Inc. 5000 companies fail within eight years because growth without systems is just expensive chaos. Charles Gaudet, founder of Predictable Profits and "CEO Whisperer" who's unlocked $100M+ in client revenue, breaks down why founder-dependent businesses hit inevitable walls regardless of funding or talent acquisition. He reveals the three systematic traps (setup, sales, and scale) that keep seven-figure CEOs trapped in operational bottlenecks. Plus, Charles shares his framework for achieving 50% recurring revenue and removing yourself from daily decision-making without breaking company momentum. This is an episode you don't want to miss.
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    The Path to Funding Your Next Great AI Startup Idea

    03/02/2026 | 28 mins.
    Most AI fundraising advice is performative gibberish disconnected from capital reality. Arjun Dev Arora, managing partner at Format One, breaks down why founders absorbing social media narratives about billion-dollar pre-seed rounds are setting themselves up for failure.
    Arjun reveals why traditional VC support models collapse post-check, how technical founders systematically mismanage board dynamics, and why the only defensible AI moats come from proprietary data loops.
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About The {Closed} Session

Building a company from scratch is soul-sucking and mind-numbingly hard - but it’s the best thing ever. We know this because we’ve built a couple ourselves - and we’re building a lot more right now. We’ve made a lot of money for our employees, our shareholders, ourselves - we’re proud of that - and that’s why we want to talk about how it’s done. Join us - Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya - in The Closed Session, where we reveal all the joys and sorrows of company building. From the guttermost to the uttermost, we’re not going to hold back.
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