Startup Videos
The launch videos, explainers, founder stories, pitches, ads, and keynotes founders study before making their own. Browse by what a video is for, then narrow to your industry. Tap any video to play it right here.
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Plaid Effects 2026 | Keynote
CEO discusses how AI is transforming fintech through Plaid's data layer, enabling real-time underwriting, fraud detection, and autonomous financial agents.
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Ali Ghodsi Kicks Off Data + AI Summit 2025
Ali Ghodsi pitches Unity Catalog as the one governed data layer for AI agents.
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Config 2025: Figma Product Launch Keynote, Live at Moscone
Dylan Field opens Config 2025 live at Moscone, showing Figma Make generating apps from a prompt.
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Socket CTO on Zero-Day Protection
Developer-first security against zero-day exploits and typosquatting
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Accelerate Fintech: Fireside Chat: Modern Treasury
Founders discuss how Modern Treasury is building payments operations infrastructure, enabling companies to move billions through APIs instead of legacy systems.
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AWS re:Invent 2024, CEO Keynote with Matt Garman
Matt Garman's debut re:Invent keynote introduces the Amazon Nova foundation models.
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Config 2024: Figma product launch keynote
Dylan Field owns the AI moment head on, then unveils Figma AI, Slides and Dev Mode: a clinic on launching many products in one hour.
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Data + AI Summit Keynote Day 1, Ali Ghodsi (2024)
Ali Ghodsi unveils the open source DBRX model and the Mosaic AI training stack.
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Full Keynote: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2024
Nadella threads one 'Copilot for everything' narrative across the whole stack, framing Copilot as a platform shift rather than a feature.
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GitHub Universe 2024 Opening Keynote: Delivering Phase Two of AI Code Generation
Thomas Dohmke shows GitHub Spark generating a working app from a single prompt.
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GTC March 2024 keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Huang works the stage with no teleprompter, unveils the Blackwell GPU and holds the chip up like a rock star, defining the AI hardware era.
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Jensen Huang GTC 2024 Keynote, Blackwell Reveal
Huang pulls the Blackwell chip from his pocket beside Hopper, dwarfing it, to frame the generative AI era.
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Snowflake Summit 2024, Platform Keynote
Snowflake's platform keynote shows Cortex AI querying enterprise data in plain English.
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Stripe Sessions 2024 opening keynote
Collison runs an hour of tight live demos and product drops, the model for a founder led keynote that stays technical and never hyped.
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AWS re:Invent 2023 CEO keynote with Adam Selipsky
Selipsky unveils Amazon Q and positions AWS against the AI wave, a study in holding an enterprise room across a 2.5 hour reveal.
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Building Smarter Authorization
Design and implement robust authorization systems for applications
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Config 2023 Product Launch Keynote, Dylan Field & Kris Rasmussen
Dylan Field and Kris Rasmussen demo Dev Mode and Figma's first AI features live.
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Data + AI Summit Keynote Wednesday (2023)
Ali Ghodsi walks on through smoke and lasers to open with LakehouseIQ and Delta Lake 3.0.
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Full Keynote, Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2023
Satya Nadella shows Copilot plugins turning ChatGPT into a universal app front end.
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GitHub Universe 2023 Opening Keynote: Copilot in the Age of AI
Thomas Dohmke debuts Copilot Chat and previews Workspace turning an issue into a PR.
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Opening Keynote from Snowflake Summit 2023
Snowflake demos Snowpark Container Services and Document AI reading a scanned form live.
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Sam Altman, OpenAI DevDay 2023 opening keynote
Altman drops GPT-4 Turbo, custom GPTs and the GPT Store, then brings Satya Nadella out, showing how to pace a dense developer reveal.
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WWDC 2023 Keynote
Tim Cook unveils Vision Pro and demos the live Persona feature on the Cupertino stage.
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AWS re:Invent 2021, Keynote with Adam Selipsky
Adam Selipsky's first re:Invent keynote as AWS CEO unveils the Graviton3 chip.
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Opening Keynote: Welcome to a New Decade of Design, Dylan Field (Config)
Dylan Field opens Figma's first ever Config, calling design's next decade collaborative.
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WWDC 2020 Special Event Keynote
Tim Cook announces the two year transition of the Mac from Intel to Apple Silicon.
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Stripe Sessions 2019, Keynote
Patrick Collison opens Stripe's first Sessions keynote by unveiling Stripe Terminal and Radar.
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WWDC 2019 Keynote
Craig Federighi introduces SwiftUI and Sign in with Apple to a standing ovation.
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AWS re:Invent 2018, Keynote with Andy Jassy
Andy Jassy unveils AWS Outposts, bringing AWS hardware directly into customer data centers.
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Microsoft Build Opening Keynote, KEY01 (2016)
Satya Nadella announces the Bot Framework and previews HoloLens shipping to developers.
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Steve Ballmer, Developers Developers Developers
Ballmer storms the stage chanting developers, developers, developers, the definitive raw founder energy clip.
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