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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

The best place to find out how AI builders build. The host Prateek Joshi interviews world-class AI founders and VCs on this podcast. You can visit prateekj.com to learn more about the host.

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38:22

Decentralized Data Foundry for AI | Rowan Stone, CEO...

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2025/06/04

Rowan Stone is the CEO of Sapien, a decentralized data foundry where AI models can access verified human expertise worldwide. They've raised raised a $10.5M round led by Variant. He's also the co-creator of Coinbase's layer 2 network called Base. Rowan's favorite book: Outlive (Author: Peter Attia) (00:01) Introduction (01:09) The Flaws in Centralized Data Models (04:10) Mechanism of Knowledge Transfer and Expert Incentives (07:08) Supply, Demand, and Market Dynamics for Training Data (10:2...

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38:50

Converting Cameras into Autonomous AI Agents | Rish...

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2025/04/29

Rish Gupta is the cofounder and CEO of Spot AI, a video AI platform for the physical world. They've raised $93M from amazing investors such as Scale, Bessemer, and Qualcomm Ventures. Rish's favorite book: Atlas Shrugged (Author: Ayn Rand) (00:01) Introduction (00:32) Video-AI basics: ingesting camera feeds across diverse networks (02:42) Edge-vs-cloud trade-offs for compute, storage, and bandwidth (05:40) Mapping the sector: hardware waves to cloud cameras to pure-software layer (07:4...

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45:21

Are AI Phone Agents Ready for Prime Time? | Alex...

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2025/04/22

Alex Levin is the cofounder and CEO of Regal, a platform for AI phone agents. They've raised $82M from amazing investors such as Emergence Capital. Alex's favorite book: The PayPal Wars (Author: Eric M. Jackson) (00:01) Introduction (02:37) Evolution of customer contact tools and legacy players (06:02) Launching Regal: Origin story and early challenges (08:41) MVP strategy and problems worth solving (11:46) Lessons from 0 to 10 customers: Growth mistakes and hiring (16:13) Ideal early-stage...

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40:07

What it Takes to Build a BI Platform | Colin Zima,...

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2025/04/15

Colin Zima is the cofounder and CEO of Omni, a data platform that combines the consistency of a shared data model with the speed and freedom of SQL. They recently raised their $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth. He was previously the Chief Analytics Officer at Looker. Colin's favorite book: Blink (Author: Malcolm Gladwell) (00:01) Introduction (01:10) What Is a Data Model and Why It Matters (03:27) Gaps in the Modern Data Stack (05:38) The Staying Power of SQL (07:29) Origin Story: Why Omni...

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38:21

Building Billing Infrastructure for AI Companies |...

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2025/04/09

Alvaro Morales is the cofounder and CEO of Orb, a usage-based billing product for modern software companies. They've raised $44M to date from amazing investors such as Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock. Alvaro's favorite book: Conversation in the Cathedral (Author: Mario Vargas Llosa) (00:01) Introduction (00:35) What is Usage-Based Billing? (02:27) Challenges in Metering Usage (04:14) Examples of Consumption-Based Products (05:49) Tools for Usage Metering and Billing (09:0...

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41:02

Turning Legal Services to APIs | Jay Madheswaran, CEO...

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2025/03/25

Jay Madheswaran is the cofounder and CEO of Eve, a legal AI platform for plaintiff law firms. They recently raised their $47M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Menlo Ventures. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed and the first engineer at Rubrik. Jay's favorite book: The Truth Detector (Author: Jack Schafer) (00:01) Introduction (00:44) Overview of Legal AI and Industry Impact (03:53) Daily Operations in Plaintiff Law Firms (05:49) Identifying and Launching Eve's MVP (...

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45:37

Is LLM the New Operating System? | Anant Bhardwaj,...

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2025/03/18

Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, an AI-native unstructured data platform. They've raised $322M in funding to date from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and Index Ventures. He did his masters from Stanford and PhD from MIT. Anant's favorite book: The Singularity Is Near (Author: Ray Kurzweil) (00:07) Defining Unstructured Data (01:18) The Growth of Unstructured Data and Its Challenges (02:05) Evolution of Tools for Analyzing Unstructured Data (04:25) How Large Lan...

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33:54

Building AI Agents That Actually Work | Malte Kosub,...

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2025/03/04

Malte Kosub is the cofounder and CEO of Parloa, an AI agent platform for customer service. They raised their $66M Series B led by Altimeter. Malte's favorite book: The Qualified Sales Leader (Author: John McMahon) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) Overview of AI in Customer Support (01:33) The Current Landscape of AI Agents (02:46) Enterprise Adoption of AI Agents (04:16) The Founding Story of Parloa (06:25) Deciding What Goes into V1 of a Product (07:56) Achieving 99.9999% Accuracy in AI Agents...

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44:07

3000 Customers, One Bold Pivot: Building the First...

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2025/02/25

Scott Stevenson is the cofounder and CEO of Spellbook. They launched the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. It's used by more than 3,000 law firms and are growing really fast. They most recently raised $20M Series A from investors such as Inovia, Bling, and Moxxie. Scott's favorite book: Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) The basics of legal AI and its applications (02:57) How lawyers use AI for contract review and drafting (03:22) Inspiration from Gi...

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41:26

The Outer Loop of AI-Powered Coding | Merrill Lutsky,...

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2025/02/18

Merrill Lutsky is the cofounder and CEO of Graphite, an AI-powered code reviewer that's used by tens of thousands of users. They are backed by amazing investors including Andreessen Horowitz. Merrill's favorite book: Never Split the Difference (Author: Chris Voss) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) Teaching AI to Understand Code (02:40) AI-Assisted Code Generation and Code Review (06:20) Current Landscape of AI-Assisted Code Review (09:04) Motivation Behind Launching Graphite (16:52) Landing the ...

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48:19

Behind the Scenes of AI Video | Amit Jain, founder of...

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2025/02/04

Amit Jain is the cofounder and CEO of Luma AI, an AI platform to create realistic looking videos. They're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Amazon, and AMD. He was previously at Apple where he worked on VisionPro. Amit's favorite book: Skunk Works (Authors: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) How Can AI Models Generate Realistic Videos (02:38) The Current Landscape of Video Generation (06:16) Teaching AI Models the Laws of Physics (09:47) Founding Luma: Deciding on the First ...

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38:06

Building an AI-Powered Terminal | Zach Lloyd

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2025/01/28

Zach Lloyd is the cofounder and CEO of Warp, the intelligent terminal powered by AI. They recently raised their $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital. He was previously the cofounder of SelfMade and the interim CTO of TIME. Zach's favorite book: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Author: Leo Tolstoy)(00:01) Introduction(00:07) Basics of the Terminal: What It Does and Why Developers Use It(01:48) Foundation of Warp: Addressing Terminal Shortcomings(05:00) Initial Feature Set: Building Warp’s Early Produ...

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48:54

When Robots Go Haywire, Who Picks Up The Tab? | Amias...

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2025/01/21

Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favorite finance book: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (Author: Walter Bagehot)(00:01) Introduction(00:46) Why Do Robots Need Insurance?(03:04) Challenges for Insurance Companies with Robot Liability(07:34) Risks of Autonomous Robots in Industrial vs. Domest...

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49:18

Building MotherDuck to a $400M Company

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2025/01/16

Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in funding from amazing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Madrona, and Altimeter. He was previously the CPO at SingleStore and spent 11 years at Google before that. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Harvard. Jordan's favorite book: The Master and Margarita (Author: Mikhail Bulgakov)(00:01) Introduction(00:08) Founding of Mothe...

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47:27

AI Agents Have Brains, But Where Are Their Wallets?

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2024/12/10

Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favorite book: The Origin of Species (Author: Charles Darwin)(00:01) Introduction and Setting the Stage(00:29) The Status Quo: AI Agents and Online Purchases(02:20) The Current Payment Infrastructure Explained(04:42) Automation Today: Auto-Complete and Recurring Payments(06:0...

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32:35

Decoding Metadata in AI

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2024/12/03

Cody Coleman is the cofounder and CEO of Coactive AI, a multimodal AI platform to accelerate metadata generation. They recently raised their $30M Series B co-led by Cherryrock Capital and Emerson Collective along with participation from Greycroft, Andreessen Horowitz, and Bessemer Venture Partners. He has a masters degree from MIT and a PhD from Stanford. Cody's favorite books: - The Inner Game of Tennis (Author: W. Timonthy Gallwey) - Gettine More (Author: Stuart Diamond)(00:01) Introduction...

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37:45

Building Autonomous Greenhouses with AI and Robotics

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2024/11/12

Gilwoo Lee is the founder and CEO of Zordi, a company that builds and operates autonomous greenhouses with mobile robots and AI. They raised $20M in their most recent funding round led by Khosla Ventures. She has degrees from MIT, CMU, and University of Washington. Gilwoo's favorite book: Masayoshi Son's 300-Year Plan (Author: Takashi Sugimoto)(00:01) Introduction(00:08) What is a Greenhouse?(01:08) Greenhouse Usage in Different Regions(02:45) Advantages and Challenges of Greenhouses(06:15) C...

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33:27

Developing Battery Materials with AI

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2024/11/05

Vivas Kumar is the cofounder and CEO of Mitra Chem, the first lithium-ion battery materials product company focused on shortening the lab-to-production timeline by over 90%. They recently raised more than $80M in funding from Social Capital, General Motors, Alpha Wave Ventures, and others. Vivas's favorite book: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Author: Nelson Mandela)(00:01) Introduction(02:25) How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work(04:56) Evolution of Battery Materials(06:4...

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39:08

Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2024/10/30

Alan Cowen is the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a company building voice-to-voice foundation models. They recently raised their $50M Series B from Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and others. Alan's favorite book: 1984 (Author: George Orwell)(00:01) Introduction(00:06) Defining Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models(01:26) Historical Context: Handling Voice and Speech Understanding(03:54) Emotion Detection in Voice AI Models(04:33) Training Models to Recognize Human Emotion in Speech...

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37:40

Digital Replicas That Can Have Real Conversations

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2024/10/11

Hassaan Raza is the cofounder and CEO of Tavus, a video API platform for digital twins. They've raised more than $28M in funding from investors such as Sequoia and Scale VP. Hassaan's favorite book: Go Like Hell (Author: A. J. Baime)(00:01) Introduction(00:38) Overview of AI in video generation(01:44) AI models used in video generation(03:35) Capturing intricate facial movements in real-time(06:46) Data capture and 3D modeling from basic video input(09:01) Explanation of neural radiance field...

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