Best Chain of Thought Episodes for AI Founders
Building an AI company — defensibility, GTM, and the market reality.
- 1 From Demo to Defensibility: How to Build an AI Business that Lasts | Aurimas Griciūnas Aurimas Griciūnas, SwirlAI Aurimas Griciūnas on getting from an impressive demo to a business that survives contact with production — the founder’s core problem.
- 2 Building an AI-Native Startup | GrowthX's Marcel Santilli Marcel Santilli, GrowthX GrowthX’s Marcel Santilli on what it means to build AI-native from day one, not bolt AI onto an old shape.
- 3 Taste Is The New Moat | Why Customer Obsession Wins in the AI Era Bharat Vasan, Intangible When models commoditize, taste and customer obsession become the moat. The clearest take on AI-era differentiation.
- 4 The Agent Bubble Debate | Spot AI's Kelly Vaughn Kelly Vaughn, Spot AI Kelly Vaughn on where the agent hype is real and where it isn’t — the market read every founder needs before betting on agents.
- 5 Why Most Enterprise AI Projects Fail to Show ROI | HP, ServiceNow & Accenture Vikram Chatterji, Alex Klug, Sriram Palapudi & Jay Subrahmonia Why most enterprise AI projects never show ROI — the buying-side reality if you’re selling AI into the enterprise.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes for Engineers Shipping with AI — the craft, the workflow, and the reality checks.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Agents How agents actually work — architecture, memory, context, frameworks.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Evaluation Measuring whether AI actually works — evals, reliability, trust.