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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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41:45

Building a $4 Billion AI Infra Company | Benny Chen,...

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2026/02/06

Benny Chen is the cofounder of Fireworks AI, an AI infrastructure platform. They have raised $327M in funding from Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and others. Benny's favorite book: Principles (Author: Ray Dalio) (00:01) Intro and why AI infrastructure is having a moment (00:06) Training vs inference: what’s working and where the real bottlenecks are (01:25) Why inference is the hard problem in production (03:30) What breaks at scale when AI systems hit real users (05:29) GPUs,...

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40:51

Building AI Employees | Surojit Chatterjee, CEO of Ema

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2025/12/22

Surojit Chatterjee is CEO of Ema, an agent platform build AI employees. They have raised $61M in funding from Accel, Section 32, and others. Before Ema, he was the chief product officer at Coinbase. And before that, a VP at Google. Surojit's favorite book: Man's Search for Meaning (Author: Viktor Frankl) (00:01) Welcome (00:07) Defining the “AI Employee” (02:23) Lessons from Google: Building for Scale (06:59) Coinbase CPO: Hypergrowth & Product Leadership (09:24) Market Framing: W...

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37:40

Passwords Are Broken: AI Agents Need Identity | Rishi...

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2025/12/12

Rishi Bhargava is CEO of Descope, an identity management platform for customers and AI agents. They've raised $88M in funding from investors such as Notable Capital, Lightspeed, Unusual Ventures. The two previous he founded were acquired by Palo Alto Networks and McAfee. (00:01) Introduction (00:08) Origin story: why identity and passwords needed a rethink (02:59) Passwords vs passkeys explained in plain English (05:06) Why logging in is still painful (and why passwords persist) (09:06...

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34:55

AI Agents Are Taking Over Infra | Gou Rao, CEO of...

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2025/11/26

Gou Rao is CEO of NeuBird, an agentic AI Site Reliability Engineer for IT teams. They've raised $44.5 Million from Mayfield and M12. He was previously the CTO of Citrix and Portworx. (00:01) Introduction (01:07) What Does an SRE Do? (02:19) Inside a Typical Incident Flow (04:16) What Can Be Automated? (05:52) Deploying Hawkeye: Day 1 to Day 100 (11:59) Earning Trust for Autonomous Agents (14:57) Versioning Agent Behavior & Chain of Thought (17:02) Building Agentic Infra Products (18:38) ...

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Building a Visual AI Platform | Brian Moore, CEO of...

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2025/11/06

Brian Moore is CEO of Voxel51, a data infra platform for visual AI. They most recently raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer. Brian's favorite books: Trillion Dollar Coach (Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle) (00:01) Introduction and setup (00:22) Defining visual AI — beyond traditional computer vision (02:14) Why visual data is so hard to manage (04:17) Common “gotchas” in image and video datasets (06:43) Is it a data problem or a model problem? (09:41) The im...

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45:01

Building an AI Mathematician | Carina Hong, CEO of...

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2025/10/30

Carina Hong is CEO of Axiom Math, where they're building a self-improving superintelligent reasoner, starting with an AI mathematician. She's a Rhodes Scholar, first-gen college grad and mathematics prodigy who earned dual degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT in 3 years. And a joint JD/PhD at Stanford. They just raised a $64M seed round from B Capital, Greycroft, Madrona, and Menlo Ventures. Carina's favorite books: Proofs from THE BOOK (Author: Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler)...

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From 0 to $15M ARR in 3 months | Mukund Jha, CEO of...

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2025/10/24

Mukund Jha is CEO of Emergent, an agentic vibe-coding platform. They've raised $23M from Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Together Fund, and Prosus. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Dunzo, a hugely popular ecommerce company in India. Mukund's favorite books: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Author: Ben Horowitz) (00:01) Intro (00:07) State of vibe-coding and where we are today (01:42) Emergent in plain English: what the product delivers (03:07) From prototype to traction: the first 90 d...

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39:09

Diffusion LLMs - The Fastest LLMs Ever Built |...

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2025/10/09

Stefano Ermon is the cofounder of Inception Labs and an associate professor at Stanford. Inception is developing a new type of AI models called Diffusion LLMs. Stefano's favorite book: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Author: Italo Calvino) (00:01) Introduction (00:38) What are autoregressive LLMs and how do they work (02:28) How diffusion LLMs rethink generation (04:02) The ceiling of autoregressive LLMs: cost, latency, reliability (06:19) Why diffusion LLMs are commercially viable now (...

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LLMs, Vibe Coding, and Security | Idan Plotnik, CEO...

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2025/09/30

Idan Plotnik is the CEO of Apiiro, an application security platform built for the AI era. They've raised $135M in funding from investors like Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, and General Catalyst. Idan's favorite books: Zero to IPO (Author: Frederic Kerrest) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) How LLMs Generate Code (02:11) Rise of Vibe Coding: Opportunities and Risks (05:24) Debugging and Security in Vibe Coding (09:13) Vulnerabilities Introduced by AI Code Assistants (12:20) Security Basics for ...

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52:09

Infra Investing | Astasia Myers, GP at Felicis

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2025/09/08

Astasia Myers is a GP at Felicis, an iconic VC firm with investments in companies like Shopify, Canva, Adyen, Notion, Mercor, Plaid, Supabase, Flexport, and more. Astasia's favorite books: God's Bankers (Author: Gerald Posner) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) Astasia’s Infra Thesis (03:59) Golden Age of Infra & Innovators Network (06:22) RL Environments & AI Agents (08:57) Disruption Opportunities: Data & Observability (11:31) Where to Find Infra Founders (16:31) Early Signals...

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39:14

Putting AI On-Call for Humans | Spiros Xanthos, CEO...

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2025/09/02

Spiros Xanthos is the CEO of Resolve AI, a platform to put AI on-call for humans. He previously started Log Insight that was acquired by VMware. And started Omnition that was acquired by Splunk. He also helped start OpenTelemetry. They've raised $35M from amazing investors such as Greylock. Spiros's favorite books: - Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel) - Build (Author: Tony Fadell) (00:01) Introduction & Setting the Stage (00:42) AI’s Impact on Software Engineering (02:55) What Reli...

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51:55

Co-creator of GraphQL and Founder of Dagster Labs -...

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2025/08/20

Nick Schrock is the founder of Dagster Labs, a data platform that helps you build, schedule, and monitor reliable data pipelines. They've raised $49M in funding from investors such as Sequoia, Index, Amplify, Slow, and 8VC. He is also the cocreator of the popular query language GraphQL. Nick's favorite books: The Great CEO Within (Author: Matt Mochary) (00:01) Introduction and Welcome (00:39) The Origins of GraphQL at Facebook (05:24) Explaining Data Orchestration in Plain English (09...

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41:43

AI Layer for Data Security | Rehan Jalil, CEO of...

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2025/08/06

Rehan Jalil is the CEO of Securiti, a platform that enables the safe use of data and generative AI. They've raised $156M in funding from investors such as General Catalyst, Mayfield, and others. He was previously the CEO of Elastica, which was acquired for $280M by Bluecoat. Before that, he was the CEO of WiChorus, which was acquired by Tellabs for $180M. Rehan's favorite books: Good to Great (Author: Jim Collins) (00:00) Introduction (02:14) Founding Securiti and the Evolution of Dat...

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36:41

Building AI Agents for Knowledge Work | Alberto...

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2025/07/30

Alberto Rizzoli is the CEO of V7 Labs, an AI agent platform to automate knowledge work. They've raised a total of $43M in funding from Radical Ventures, Temasek, Air Street Capital, and others. Alberto's favorite books: Sapiens (Author: Yuval Noah Harari) (00:01) Introduction and What V7 Labs Does (01:23) The Founding Insight and Early MVP (04:54) Getting the First Five Customers (07:01) Darwin vs. Go: Product Differentiation (10:16) Infrastructure and Chaining Models at V7 (12:34) Pr...

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48:54

AI for Physical Security | Dave Selinger, CEO of Deep...

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2025/07/23

Dave Selinger is the CEO of Deep Sentinel, an AI-powered video surveillance system. They have raised $38M in funding from Intel Capital, Shasta Ventures, and others. Prior to this, he was the cofounder and CTO of Redfin. And he was also the cofounder of RichRelevance. Dave's favorite books: - The Speed of Trust (Author: Stephen Covey) - Snow Crash (Author: Neal Stephenson) (00:01) – Origin Story: A Near-Miss and the Broken Security Market (04:22) – What Deep Sentinel Does and Wh...

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Building the Berkshire Hathaway of AI Services |...

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2025/07/16

Brennan Pothetes is the CEO of Infinity Constellation, an AI-native holding company. They've raised $17M from Freestyle Capital, Charlie Songhurst, and others. Brennan's favorite books: Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel) (00:01) Lightning Bolt Moment – Origin of Infinity Constellation (03:48) Transitioning from Founder to Holdco CEO (07:00) How Infinity Incubates vs Acquires Companies (09:05) Infinity vs Traditional Venture Studios (10:58) Aligning Incentives: Founders, Holdco, and Inv...

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Agentic Shift in Microservices | Mark Fussell, CEO of...

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2025/07/09

Mark Fussell is the CEO of Diagrid, a developer platform that provides tools and services for building cloud native applications. They've raised $24.2M from Amplify and Norwest. He is also the co-creator of Dapr, an open source tool used by 40,000 companies. Mark's favorite books: - Crossing the Chasm (Author: Geoffrey A. Moore) - Good to Great (Author: Jim Collins) - The Dispossessed (Author: Ursula K. Le Guin) (00:01) Opening and Introduction (00:09) The Origins of Dapr:...

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Building the Android for Robots | Jan Liphardt,...

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2025/06/30

Jan Liphardt is the founder of OpenMind, where they're building an operating system for intelligent machines. He is an associate professor at Stanford and was previously an associate professor at UC Berkeley. He got his PhD from University of Cambridge. Jan's favorite books: The Little Prince (Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) 00:01 — Introduction 00:32 — Gap Between Movie Robots and Real-World Robotics 02:35 — Vision for a New Robotics OS 07:14 — Robotics OS Stack Breakdown 11:01 — Biggest...

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AI Infra for Long Context Model Training | Anna...

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2025/06/17

Anna Patterson is the cofounder of Ceramic, an AI infrastructure platform for large scale model training. They raised their seed round led by NEA along with amazing investors such as Lukas Biewald, Laszlo Bock, Sean Carey, Jeff Hammerbacher, Ankit Jain, Seval Oz, Joanna Rees, Gokul Rajaram, and Ram Sriram. She was previously the founder and managing partner at Gradient Ventures. She was the VP Engineering at Google for 14 years. Anna's favorite book: Books she reads with her daughters ...

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Building an AI+Data Startup Studio | Tom Chavez,...

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi ·

2025/06/10

Tom Chavez is the cofounder of super{set}, a startup studio that founds, funds, and builds data and AI startups. Prior to this, he was the CEO and co-founder of Krux, a martech platform acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Before Krux, he was the CEO and co-founder of Rapt, a provider of software for media monetization acquired by Microsoft in 2008. He went to Harvard for undergrad and Stanford for his PhD. Tom's favorite book: The Three Musketeers (Author: Alexandre Dumas) (00:01) Origin Story ...

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