Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

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. 

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 ...

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 Kn...

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 bandwi...

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 ...

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) Ga...

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)...

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
(0...

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 Chal...

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 Parl...

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<...

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 La...

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 Generat...

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 ...

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 f...

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 Marg...

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 Pa...

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...

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?
...