Surojit Chatterjee is CEO of Ema, an agent platform build AI employees. They have raised $61M in funding from Accel, Section 32, and others. Before Ema, he was the chief product officer at Coinbase. And before that, a VP at Google.

Surojit's favorite book: Man's Search for Meaning (Author: Viktor Frankl)

(00:01) Welcome
(00:07) Defining the “AI Employee”
(02:23) Lessons from Google: Building for Scale
(06:59) Coinbase CPO: Hypergrowth & Product Leadership
(09:24) Market Framing: Why “AI Employee” vs Copilot
(14:29) Platform Building Blocks (Agents, Orchestrator, Fusion, Governance)
(19:26) Trust, Security, and On-Prem Deployment
(23:11) Model of Models: How Fusion Picks & Combines LLMs
(29:10) What Infra Is Still Missing (Eval at Scale, Speed)
(32:10) Rapid Fire Round

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Where to find Surojit Chatterjee:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/surojitchatterjee/

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Website: https://prateekj.com
Research Column: https://www.infrastartups.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-infinite
X: https://x.com/prateekj

Rishi Bhargava is CEO of Descope, an identity management platform for customers and AI agents. They've raised $88M in funding from investors such as Notable Capital, Lightspeed, Unusual Ventures. The two previous he founded were acquired by Palo Alto Networks and McAfee.

(00:01) Introduction
(00:08) Origin story: why identity and passwords needed a rethink
(02:59) Passwords vs passkeys explained in plain English
(05:06) Why logging in is still painful (and why passwords persist)
(09:06) Account takeovers explained: how hacks actually happen
(11:59) Building security products: philosophy vs regular software
(14:24) The ideal login experience: from frustration to seamless access
(16:40) What is an AI agent? Defining agent identity simply
(21:54) Good bots vs bad bots: trust, access, and control in an agent world
(25:03) Breaches and blast radius: security before vs after Descope
(27:55) Company building lessons from Demisto to Descope
(30:15) AI trends that matter most for enterprise products
(32:40) Rapid Fire Round

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Where to find Rishi Bhargava:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhargavarishi/

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Website: https://prateekj.com
Research Column: https://www.infrastartups.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-infinite
X: https://x.com/prateekj

Gou Rao is CEO of NeuBird, an agentic AI Site Reliability Engineer for IT teams. They've raised $44.5 Million from Mayfield and M12. He was previously the CTO of Citrix and Portworx.

(00:01) Introduction
(01:07) What Does an SRE Do?
(02:19) Inside a Typical Incident Flow
(04:16) What Can Be Automated?
(05:52) Deploying Hawkeye: Day 1 to Day 100
(11:59) Earning Trust for Autonomous Agents
(14:57) Versioning Agent Behavior & Chain of Thought
(17:02) Building Agentic Infra Products
(18:38) Access Control for Agents
(20:29) Company Building in the AI Era
(23:53) Competitive Edge in AI + Infra
(26:35) Model Choice & Agent Reasoning Quality
(29:33) Biggest Product Bet
(31:22) Exciting AI Advancements
(33:04) Rapid Fire Round

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Where to find Gou Rao:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gouthamrao/

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Research Column: https://www.infrastartups.com
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-infinite
X: https://x.com/prateekj