
From Startup to Exit
Hosted by Gowri Shankar and Shirish Nadkarni · TiE Seattle
5.0from 8 ratings
- 51
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 8
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 8K
- YouTube views
About From Startup to Exit
Welcome to the Startup to Exit podcast where we bring you world-class entrepreneurs and VCs to share their hard-earned success stories and secrets. This podcast has been brought to you by TiE Seattle. TiE is a global non-profit that focuses on fostering entrepreneurship. TiE Seattle offers a range of programs including the GoVertical Startup Creation Weekend, TiE Entrepreneur Institute, and the TiE Seattle Angel Network. We encourage you to become a TiE member so you can gain access to these great programs. To become a member, please visit www.Seattle.tie.org (http://www.seattle.tie.org/).
- Publisher
- TiE Seattle
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Aug 2023
- Latest episode
- 10 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 51 episodes have a transcript.

10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The AI Model Wars. Who wins - and What Should Founders Choose? From the former head of OpenAI Inference

1 Oct 2026
From Microsoft Exit to Building the NFL Draft for AI Talent

23 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Ocean Plastics to AI Agents: Meet the Student Entrepreneurs Who Won the TiE Young Entrepreneur Global Competition
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The AI Model Wars. Who wins - and What Should Founders Choose? From the former head of OpenAI Inference
Published 10 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Right. So do you see that, um, um, the market share of the open-weight models increasing dramatically, or do you still see that the vast majority of the market will still go with OpenAI Anthropic? What I'm seeing so far is, like, in terms of share, I definitely think that the share will grow off open-weights for some time. But, you know, there's a... structural growth happening so i think that both open weights and close mates are weight model usage is going to grow rapidly uh and uh i think like in terms of share of total tokens i don't i think it's kind of straightforward that open weights share will grow i think in share of revenue it's unclear if that's going to grow because usually the most amount of revenue goes to the most expensive and high value models and that might still stay largely in the closed weight. […]
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- Anuj Gosalia
- Nikesh Parekh
- DuggAI Founders
- Ezhilarasan (Ez) Natarajan
- Sonu Aggarwal
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 8,058
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100
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- Quality
- 44
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 60
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Who hosts From Startup to Exit?
Gowri Shankar and Shirish Nadkarni host the show. Published by TiE Seattle.
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