This week, we sat down with Bernard Aceituno, co-founder & CEO of Stack AI.

Originally from Venezuela, Bernard’s journey took him from a PhD at MIT to building Stack AI, fresh out of Y Combinator. We covered a lot, including:

✅ How Stack AI is revolutionizing AI agents—connecting data sources & tools securely

✅ The real value of YC beyond the hype (including how their first customers came from a YC WhatsApp group)

✅ The role of AI agents as a new software category—automating tasks, interacting with tools, and storing memory

✅ How operationally heavy industries (banks, logistics, healthcare) benefit most from AI automation

✅ Stack AI’s go-to-market strategy—leveraging content, inbound leads, and pilot projects to scale

✅ Why raising money is a distraction and shouldn't take more than two weeks

If you’re building in AI—or thinking about it—this one’s a must-listen.

Key moments:

Introduction (1m13)

YC / Start of the story (8m07)

Vision with Stack AI + AI agent definition + how they integrate into (18m50)

How companies figure out their best use cases with Stack AI, and managing data privacy (23m40)

Data privacy with StackAI (27m12)

Targeting industries - horizontal VS vertical and selling (29m55)

Mistakes made with StackAi (36m37)

Stack AI internal growth (40m35)

The future of the AI space among startups + raising money (44m55)

Resources Bernardo recommended: The hard things about hard things (Ben Horowitz)

A Gen Z reinventing Gen Z investment 💸🧞‍♂️

This is the best way to describe what Eve Halimi, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Alinea, is doing these days!

After graduating from Columbia University, Eve had her first immersion into entrepreneurship when she joined the French unicorn 🦄 Contentsquare as a Strategic Project Associate. Even though she was flourishing at her job, she had that desire to start her own venture 🚀.

Destiny is well-made since their pitch of Alinea got her and her Co-founder accepted into YC’s 20-21 batch, propelling them all the way from NYC 🍎 to the Silicon Valley…

In just 15 months, they raised a Pre-Seed 💸, hired more than 50 employees 🤯📈 and follow a very specific mission: making responsible investing easy, social and more inclusive!

In this fun episode, Eve tells us, amongst other tips:

🎙 How to get into Y Combinator? ⚙️🤤

🎙 How to build a Fintech company in NYC 🍏

🎙 How to differentiate yourself from your competitors? 💡🧞‍♂️

🎙 Challenges with targeting GenZ 👶

🎙 How to hire your first employees? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Good listening !! 🚀

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Révolutionner le monde du software, c’est possible!

Je ne vous parle pas d’un énième produit de génération de code, mais bien de la référence mondiale pour créer son propre software, que vous sachiez coder ou pas.

Dans le dernier épisode de Zero to One, nous avons eu l'honneur de recevoir Emmanuel Straschnov, cofondateur et CEO de Bubble.io, la plateforme no-code par excellence.

Diplômé de l'École Polytechnique, Emmanuel débute sa carrière en Chine en conseil en stratégie. Un tournant décisif survient lorsqu'il décide de partir aux US poursuivre un MBA à Harvard 🎓, où il trouve le véritable sens qu'il souhaite donner à sa vie. Tout s'accélère alors pour lui : en juin 2012, il rencontre son cofondateur Josh Haas à New York, et ensemble, ils lancent Bubble. Bubble, depuis sa création c’est:

• une séries A à 100M en 2021
• des millions d’utilisateurs.
• Une révolution dans le développement du software, en démocratisant l'accès à la création d'applications et en permettant à chacun de transformer ses idées en réalité digitale sans compétences techniques approfondies.

Dans cet épisode, Emmanuel nous partage son histoire et les secrets de sa réussite entrepreneuriale. 🦄 Un épisode à ne pas manquer pour les passionnés de tech et d’entrepreneuriat :)

Bonne écoute ;) 🚀