Stephan Schulze has a over two decades of experience building unicorn engineering teams and products. He has scaled engineering teams like Sennder, a German Unicorn, and has invested in other Unicorns like Trade Republic and Spryker while he was MD at Project A Ventures.
1:43 – How AI Creates Leverage for Startups
3:12 – Is AI Raising the Bar for MVPs?
7:39 – The "Nice Facade" Trap
9:15 – AI as an Investment Requirement
11:01 – Unit Economics & the Token Cost Problem
21:35 – Scaling a Unicorn With AI: The Seender Story
25:14 – AI Enablement Teams & the New Role of Engineers
28:05 – Getting Resistant Engineers On Board
36:21 – AI as Just Another Abstraction
40:04 – AI Security & the Non-Deterministic Risk
