Owen Kosman, co-founder and CTO of Standard Form, joins The Generalists to talk about building AI-era healthcare software, why physician scheduling is still run on spreadsheets, and why San Francisco remains the center of gravity for ambitious software founders.

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In this episode, Owen shares how growing up in Indonesia, studying in Singapore and Oxford, and building in London shaped the way he thinks about risk, opportunity, and entrepreneurship. The conversation explores why he is building for the US healthcare market, what makes hospital scheduling such a hard technical and trust problem, and why AI tools like Claude Code are changing how small teams build software.

Owen also reflects on San Francisco hacker houses, the culture of giving first, the difference between startup scenes in the US, UK, and Indonesia, and why Indonesian founders need to think clearly about purchasing power, real customer needs, and what kind of businesses actually fit the market.

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What You’ll Learn

• Why San Francisco is still the world’s startup epicenter in the AI era

• How Claude Code enables two founders to build like a much larger team

• Why trust, not just code, is the biggest moat in healthcare AI

• How physician scheduling still relies on Excel inside many hospitals

• The rise of hacker houses and why founders are flocking to them

• Why Owen chose to build for the US instead of Indonesia

• The realities of building a startup as an Indonesian founder abroad

• Why Indonesia’s 300 million population doesn’t automatically create a software market

• Whether AI is changing the need for venture capital and large startup teams

• Owen’s advice for young Indonesian founders on curiosity, ambition, and building globally

👤👤 Hosts

• Michael Smith Jr.: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smittysgp/

• Raz Kotler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/razkotler/

👤 Guest

• Owen Kosman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenkosman/

🔗 Resources

• Standard Form: https://www.heystandard.com/

• Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda: https://creativeselection.io/

• The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello: https://www.amazon.com/Way- Love-Meditations-Anthony-Mello/dp/038524939X

• Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code

• Cursor: https://cursor.com/

• Corgi: https://www.corgi.insure/

Alex Svanevik, co-founder and CEO of Nansen⁠, joins The Generalists to talk about agentic finance, AI-native companies, autonomous trading agents, crypto infrastructure, and why he believes every asset will eventually move on-chain.

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In this episode, Alex explains how Nansen has evolved from an on-chain analytics platform into a full trading ecosystem powered by AI agents. He shares how the company deployed more than 75 internal AI agents, why every employee now works alongside AI teammates, and what they’ve learned from spending billions of tokens per employee each month.

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What You’ll Learn

• Why Nansen deployed more AI agents than employees

• How AI-native companies are changing the way work gets done

• What agentic trading is and why it could reshape investing

• Why Alex believes every asset will eventually move on-chain

• How model routing helps balance cost, speed, and intelligence

• The difference between algorithmic trading bots and inference-based AI agents

• Why retail investors may benefit more from AI than institutions

• The concept of the “experience tax” and how it slows AI adoption

• Why young workers may have an advantage in the AI era

• How to build quality gates that prevent AI-generated slop

• What separates AI-native organizations from companies simply using AI tools

• Why culture matters more than technology during AI transformations

• How Nansen measures AI adoption across the company

• Why remote-first companies may have an advantage in the age of agents

• The emergence of a K-shaped workforce driven by AI

👤 Guest

• Alex Svanevik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asvanevik/

👤👤 Hosts

• Michael Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smittysgp/

• Raz Kotler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/razkotler/

📚 Resources

• Nansen: https://www.nansen.ai

• Anthropic Claude: https://www.anthropic.com

• AWS Bedrock: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

• Hyperliquid: https://hyperliquid.xyz

• MoonPay: https://www.moonpay.com

• MetaMask: https://metamask.io

• Phantom: https://phantom.app

• Solana: https://solana.com

• OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/

• Fridtjof Nansen: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fridtjof-Nansen

Ajey Gore, former Group CTO of Gojek, reveals why AI doesn't replace builders — it amplifies them. In this episode of The Generalists, Ajey breaks down why generalists will outperform specialists in an AI-first world, the rise of AI coding agents, and the dangerous trap of "vibe coding" without engineering fundamentals.

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Drawing from his experience scaling Gojek through hypergrowth and advising startups as Operating Partner (Technology) at Peak XV Partners, Ajey explains why the next generation of builders needs product sense, business fluency, and AI literacy — not narrow specialization. He also shares why complacency is becoming the biggest career risk, how Southeast Asian founders can build global products, and why building intuition may be the single most important skill in the age of AI.

The conversation covers Ajey's current focus on family, self-discovery, mental health initiatives, and opensource projects — a rare, candid look at what comes after leading one of Southeast Asia's most iconic engineering organizations.

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👤👤 Hosts

• Michael Smith: linkedin.com/in/smittysgp

• Raz Kotler: linkedin.com/in/razkotler

👤 Guest

• Ajey Gore: linkedin.com/in/ajeygore | ajeygore.in

📚 Resources

• Peak XV Partners: peakxv.com

• Gojek: gojek.com

• NUS Enterprise: enterprise.nus.edu.sg

• Hello Ally: helloally.io

• Claw Station: clawstation.ai

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