Building With AI

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery sits down with Scott White, a Product leader at Anthropic. Scott brings a wealth of experience from his time at companies like Dropbox, Wealthfront, Instacart, and Airtable. At Airtable, Scott first gained hands-on experience integrating LLMs into software.

At Anthropic, Scott contributed to the development of Claude. During the conversation, he takes us behind the scenes, sharing the principles and frameworks used by one of the most innovative AI companies in the world

During the episode, he discusses:

How the Product org is structured...

In this episode, host Hamza Choudery is joined by Sridhar Ramaswamy, the CEO of Snowflake. Before taking the helm at Snowflake, Sridhar scaled Google's ads business from ~$1B to $115 billion and founded one of the first AI search companies, Neeva (which was acquired by Snowflake in 2023).

During the episode, he discusses:

The first principles for AI product building,The importance of product velocity,The future of the foundation model layer,Creating data flywheels with AI,And much more!

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[00:29] Episode introduction

[01:28] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

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In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Tomasz Tunguz, Founder and General Partner at Theory Ventures. Tomasz brings a valuable 10,000-foot view of the AI space, drawing from his 16 years of experience as a VC and previous work building machine learning systems at Google.

During the episode, Tomasz discusses:

The modern data stack for LLMs,The significance of human evaluations,How to Identify high-value use cases for businesses,Midjourney's successful distribution strategy,And much more!

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In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery sits with Jayodita Sanghvi, Senior Director of Data Science at Included Health. Jayodita completed a PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford before jumping in industry with the goal of raising the standard of healthcare for everyone.

In her current role leading data science at Included Health, her team uses AI to help simplify healthcare for users by providing services like clinical care and specialist recommendations.

During the episode, Jayodita discusses:

How LLMs are going to improve healthcare delivery,Why Included Health relies primarily on prompt...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits down with Rahul Sonwalkar, the founder and CEO of Julius.ai, an AI data analyst that helps users analyze datasets, create visualizations, and gain insights from structured data. They discuss Rahul's entrepreneurial journey, including his time at big tech companies like Facebook and Uber, the infamous "Ligma Johnson" prank, and the launch of his own venture.

During the conversation, they discuss:

The inspiration for creating Julius before the "ChatGPT moment,"Julius's rapid growth to 500,000+ users,How to think about competition in the AI space,The i...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery sits down with Quentin Clark, Managing Director at General Catalyst. Drawing from his extensive background, including senior engineering and product roles at Microsoft and serving as CTO at SAP and Dropbox, Quentin offers a privileged perspective on the latest wave of AI.

He provides an insightful breakdown of the modern AI stack—covering hardware, foundation models, platforms, and applications—and shares his bets on where value will accrue.

During the episode, they discuss:

Reimagining AI-native workflows,The “ChatGPT moment,"Challenges with enterprise AI adoption,Compet...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery is hosting Akilesh, the CEO and founder of DeepScribe - a health tech company that uses LLMs and NLP to augment clinical documentation.

Akilesh grew up watching his dad, an oncologist, slog over tedious documentation tasks. Inspired by his father and their shared vision of a Jarvis-like assistant for doctors, he dove into the intersection of healthcare and AI.

During the conversation, they discuss:

His experience training custom NLP,How DeepScribe responded to the “ChatGPT moment,”The importance of AI evaluation and testing,The futu...

In this episode of Building With AI, Haroon Choudery is joined by Dan Dayon, the founder of Readwise - a platform that enhances memory retention from reading by providing an all-in-one solution for managing digital content. Last year, Readwise ventured into the world of AI by launching Ghostreader, their AI reading assistant.

 

During the episode, Dan talks about:

UI/UX challenges he faced when designing AI products,The feature that unexpectedly became a fan favorite,Readwise's plans for the future,Automating "bullshit jobs,"And much more!

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In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Naveen Rao, VP of GenAI at Databricks. Naveen is a serial entrepreneur who established the first AI chip company, which he sold to Intel in 2016. He then founded MosaicML in 2020, which was acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion last year.

 

During the episode, he shares:

MosaicML’s jobs to be done,Why MosaicML teamed up with Databricks,The economics of training AI models,Advice for teams building with AI,And much more!

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In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery is joined by Vinod Khosla, the Founder of Khosla Ventures and a renowned technologist. Vinod has played a key role in Silicon Valley's history and is currently at the forefront of the latest wave of AI adoption as the first investor in OpenAI.

During the conversation, they discuss:

Vinod's philosophy on risk,Advice for entrepreneurs building with Al,Open-source vs. API models,The Al race between the US and China,And much more!

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