Best Chain of Thought Episodes for AI Founders
Building an AI company — defensibility, GTM, and the market reality.
Most of the founder advice in AI comes from people who’ve never shipped a company. Everyone here has. What they keep landing on is that the hard part moved: getting a demo to work is the easy half now, and what’s left over is surviving contact with a customer and a P&L.
- 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.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on Agent Memory How agents remember — memory stores, context engineering, and what breaks without them.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on Multi-Agent Systems Many agents, one system — orchestration patterns, protocols, and the overhead they add.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on Open Source AI Open weights, open ecosystems, and what they actually cost in production.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Coding Agents What changes downstream when agents write most of the code.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes for Enterprise AI Leaders Getting AI past the pilot — ROI, rollout, and the data underneath it.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Security Attacking agents, defending them, and the part software cannot cover.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on RAG & Retrieval Getting the right context to the model: chunking, vectors, graphs, and what breaks at scale.