
Brian Zhan
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Jun 30, 2026
How to Spot a $25 Billion Company Before It Has Revenue
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Anu MaheshwariHOST
I'd love to hear from you the nuances there and how have you identified the trends early and the conviction you're getting on the moonshot idea here?

Brian ZhanGUEST
Reinforcement learning has gotten a little bit of a pushback because all the VCs just decided to pile into reinforcement learning.

Brian ZhanGUEST
But the truth is reinforcement learning has generalized far better than any other domain.

Brian ZhanGUEST
If you do reinforcement learning on one thing, the model just gets better at everything else because it learns how to solve for that reward function and it learns new strategies.

Brian ZhanGUEST
very much like the pathway to recursive self-improvement, even maybe to continual learning, may heavily depend on reinforcement learning.
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Anu MaheshwariHOST
Tell me more about when you see founders pitching, what gets you excited? What makes for a great pitch that helps you build conviction?