TwoSetAI: Decoding AI Builders

<p>From the pre-internet era to client-server, SaaS and now AI: Murali Swaminathan has built software through each of those shifts. An engineer by education, he moved from India to the US about 30 years ago and has...

<p>From head of engineering to founder: that is the change since Ali Parandeh was last on TwoSetAI. At the time of this conversation he runs Build Your AI, which is aimed at heavy industries such as construction...

<p>From building parsers and lexicons for rule-based translation engines to deploying LLMs at scale: Olga Beregovaya is VP of AI at Smartling. She has two degrees in linguistics ("actually two and a half") and says she...

<p>Rob Kaminski grew up in Cleveland, started out as a biomedical engineer, and took what he calls a very meandering path through product and sales into product marketing. Today he is the co-founder of Fletch, a product...

<p>Birju Kadakia grew up in the Chicago suburbs using the local tennis courts and the rec center without knowing he was a community recreation user. He studied engineering at Illinois, was a really early employee at...

<p>From leading sales and pricing at SaaS companies in health tech, architecture and agriculture to running her own consulting practice: Jenée Hall is a former chief revenue officer, and founders keep bringing her the...

<p>From naive Bayes on CPUs to GPT-1 and GPT-2 around 2019 to a book on production RAG: Ofer Mendelevitch says he has seen a lot of cycles. He is a co-author of O'Reilly's Hands-On RAG for Production and an independent...

<p>From two startups that kept building the same integrations to the company that sells them: Gil Feig is the co-founder and CTO of Merge. He and his co-founder Shensi met the problem from different sides, one in...

<p>From coding algorithms on paper in her computer science exams in Switzerland to writing the O'Reilly books on transformers and AI agents: Nicole Königstein is an author, researcher and consultant whose PhD research...

<p>From starting college in computer science and working in VR a decade ago to six years of investing at Lightspeed and now a venture firm of her own: Mercedes Bent is a partner at Premise Ventures, the firm she started...

<p>Wiley Jones comes to enterprise software from electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and control systems. He is the CEO of Doss, which had just raised $55 million when this was recorded. Doss builds what it...

<p>From a high-frequency trading company to early-stage startups in New York to building AI for finance: Deepak Bapat is the CTO and co-founder of Tabs. As he explains it, Tabs starts by reading a company's contracts...

<p>From a sensor he developed in grad school and turned into his first company, to a voice agent startup that failed, to a company he calls a rocket ship: Tom Shapland works on LiveKit Inference at LiveKit, which...

<p>From an early engineer on GitHub Copilot to a consultant for whom every month or two is a completely new world: John Berryman is the author of Prompt Engineering for LLMs and the founder of Arcturus Labs. He left...

<p>From a couch in a Zurich co-working space to a hacker house in San Francisco, Magnus Müller has kept the microwave. He is the co-founder and CEO of Browser Use, the open source tool that lets AI agents use the web...