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Shrivu Shankar - How a $5B Cybersecurity Company Runs on AI Agents

Shrivu Shankar - How a $5B Cybersecurity Company Runs on AI Agents

Today's episode is with Shrivu Shankar, VP of AI Strategy at Abnormal AI - a $5B cybersecurity company. What makes this one unique is that Shrivu joined as an intern in 2021 and got promoted every single year until he re...

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Supriya Gupta - Meta Exec Explains How AI is Reshaping Advertising

Supriya Gupta - Meta Exec Explains How AI is Reshaping Advertising

Today's episode is with Supriya Gupta, ex-VP of Product at Intuit Credit Karma and former Product Lead on the Ads team at Meta when that business was scaling like crazy. She brings a really unique perspective on everythi...

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The Future of Agentic Engineering | Cognition (Devin), Semgrep, Factory & Composio | $1.2B+ Raised

The Future of Agentic Engineering | Cognition (Devin), Semgrep, Factory & Composio | $1.2B+ Raised

AI agents are everywhere right now. But are they actually working inside real engineering teams? At AngelList’s Founders Cafe, I sat down with founders of Cognition ($898M raised), Semgrep ($204M raised), Factory ($70M r...

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He Built a $200M AI Agent 10 Years Before ChatGPT

He Built a $200M AI Agent 10 Years Before ChatGPT

Summary: In this conversation, I talked to Ashish Shubham (VP of Engineering), who's been at ThoughtSpot for 10 years, about AI agents in enterprise analytics. ThoughtSpot started as a search-based analytics company tryi...

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He Led AI Transformation for Angry Birds. Then He Quit.

He Led AI Transformation for Angry Birds. Then He Quit.

In this conversation, Tatu discusses the transformative impact of AI on game development, drawing from his extensive experience in the gaming industry. He highlights the shift from traditional game development processes...

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