Why SpaceX-Telsa Merger Makes Sense, Airtable’s $1.3B Sale, Claude Code Alternatives

Aaref Hilaly, Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, and Chase Packard, Founding Partner at Marathon, talk with guest TITV Host Stephanie Palazzolo about Airtable’s $1.3B acquisition. We also talk with The Information’s Anita Ramaswamy about why a SpaceX-Tesla merger makes sense, Laura Bratton about enterprises building internal AI coding agents to complement Claude Code, and we get into AI interpretability with Goodfire CEO Eric Ho.

Articles discussed on this episode: 

https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/firms-like-coinbase-building-coding-agents-complement-anthropics-claude-code

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex-tesla-merger-benefit-shareholders-companies

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Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction

00:01 - Airtable Acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.3B

00:11 - Why a SpaceX-Tesla Merger Could Benefit Shareholders

00:21 - Enterprise AI Coding: Coinbase & Shopify Diversify Beyond Claude Code

00:29 - Goodfire Launches 'Silico' AI Interpretability Platform