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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit17 min
Adrian Blair, CEO & Co-Founder, TrustPilot: Winning Customers. Trust in the Age of AI
Trustpilot CEO Adrian Blair outlines a strategic pivot where the company deploys its "Trust Layer" API to inject 350 million verified human experiences into autonomous AI systems, addressing a crisis where over half of Americans currently reject AI decision-making due to opacity. This infrastructure combats unreliable frontier models by ingesting structured feedback data while utilizing AI-driven fraud detection that removed 4.5 million reviews in 2024 to ensure content integrity. The platform aims to guide "agentic" AI in executing real-world actions like financial transactions with cultural nuance, thereby shifting the technology from passive chat interfaces to trusted, action-oriented tools.
- Y Combinator20 min
Design for Startups by Garry Tan (Part 2)
This presentation outlines a comprehensive framework for scaling design teams from pre-seed through Series B, emphasizing the strategic shift from consultant reliance to diversified full-time hiring to prevent talent isolation. It details specific sourcing channels ranging from top-tier universities and global low-cost markets to targeted agency partnerships, while defining rigorous interview protocols that prioritize communication and user-centric problem-solving over portfolio aesthetics. Furthermore, the session addresses broader strategic imperatives such as leveraging founder vulnerability for brand trust and utilizing calculated controversy to generate market attention, asserting that design alone cannot resolve non-design business or technical blockers.