About the
Closed Session Podcast
Most startup advice comes from VCs who haven’t built companies or sideline commentators. They discuss funding rounds, not the realities of making payroll or building defensible moats with only six months of runway.
Closed Session delivers unfiltered insights on building using AI & data to solve real business problems. This is real talk for sophisticated startup founders, engineers, and the people who love them.
We dissect go-to-market strategies for AI-first companies, expose what actually creates defensible strategy versus VC-friendly myths, and share contrarian takes that give you an unfair advantage. Whether you’re finding product-market fit or clawing towards scale, these conversations cut through the hype.
No generic advice. No performative polish. Just the unvarnished truth about building companies that matter.
About our host
Tom Chavez
Multi-Exit Founder & Managing Partner, super{set}
Tom Chavez brings provably authoritative insights to building AI-first, data-driven companies. As a repeat founder-operator, he’s lived through the brutal realities of scaling from zero to exit—twice.
Track Record:
- Krux – Co-founder & CEO, sold to Salesforce for $700M+
- Rapt – Co-founder & CEO, sold to Microsoft
- super{set} – Managing Partner at the operator-led venture studio building the next generation of category-defining AI companies
Tom’s unfiltered, often contrarian perspective comes from actually doing the work: hiring the first ten employees, navigating board dynamics, building data moats that matter, and finding go-to-market strategies that work for intelligence-based products.
This isn’t another VC sharing theories. This is battle-tested operational knowledge from someone who’s been in the trenches and emerged with companies that scaled.
