The AI Ventures Podcast: In Person Interviews With Silicon Valley's Leading VC Backed AI Founders Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:36:51 -0400 en-us © 2026 The AI Ventures Podcast: In Person Interviews With Silicon Valley's Leading VC Backed AI Founders yes 689d61c0-511a-56b6-b1e0-e924904534c4 aiventurespodcast@gmail.com Adam Knees episodic false Go inside Silicon Valley's most innovative AI startups with host Adam Knees, as he sits down in person with the VC backed AI technology founders building the future of artificial intelligence. From breakthrough technologies to bold predictions, the AI Ventures Podcast gives you an unfiltered look at the people, ideas and companies shaping the next era of tech.

For startup founders, engineers and technology professionals who want to stay ahead in the AI era.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Adam Knees aiventurespodcast@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/pat75mp0m5y98rezi52pmfqzgnpw?.jpg The AI Ventures Podcast: In Person Interviews With Silicon Valley's Leading VC Backed AI Founders Sixtyfour.ai Founders: How They Beat OpenAI to Market & Why AI Will Make Unemployment Surpass 50% Sixtyfour.ai Founders: How They Beat OpenAI to Market & Why AI Will Make Unemployment Surpass 50% Sixtyfour.ai founders Saarth Shah and Christopher Price reveal how they shipped their deep research agent before OpenAI, why unemployment could surpass 50% in the next 10 years, and how they are building the central intelligence platform for people and company data.

In this episode, Adam Knees sits down in person with the founders of Sixtyfour.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup building the orchestration layer for company and people intelligence. From hacking at age 12 and manufacturing fidget spinners in middle school to building AI agents that can track down a business owner from a single Facebook post, Saarth and Christopher share the unfiltered story behind one of the most interesting AI startups right now.

Whether you are a AI startup founder or someone trying to understand where artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley AI Technology is headed, this episode is unmissable.

In this episode we cover:

  • How Sixtyfour.ai beat OpenAI to market by shipping a deep research agent weeks before Deep Research launched
  • Why most early stage founders build the wrong thing and how to avoid it
  • The wildest use cases for AI agents in people and company intelligence
  • What Y Combinator actually teaches founders behind closed doors
  • Whether or not AI will push unemployment above 50% within 10 years
  • Their long term vision to become the central intelligence platform for people data

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Guest Links:

sixtyfour.ai Website: https://sixtyfour.ai

Saarth's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saarthshah/

Christopher's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-price-59a24b178/

sixtyfour.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sixtyfourai/

]]> Sixtyfour.ai founders Saarth Shah and Christopher Price reveal how they shipped their deep research agent before OpenAI, why unemployment could surpass 50% in the next 10 years, and how they are building the central intelligence platform for people and company data.

In this episode, Adam Knees sits down in person with the founders of Sixtyfour.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup building the orchestration layer for company and people intelligence. From hacking at age 12 and manufacturing fidget spinners in middle school to building AI agents that can track down a business owner from a single Facebook post, Saarth and Christopher share the unfiltered story behind one of the most interesting AI startups right now.

Whether you are a AI startup founder or someone trying to understand where artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley AI Technology is headed, this episode is unmissable.

In this episode we cover:

  • How Sixtyfour.ai beat OpenAI to market by shipping a deep research agent weeks before Deep Research launched
  • Why most early stage founders build the wrong thing and how to avoid it
  • The wildest use cases for AI agents in people and company intelligence
  • What Y Combinator actually teaches founders behind closed doors
  • Whether or not AI will push unemployment above 50% within 10 years
  • Their long term vision to become the central intelligence platform for people data

Follow the AI Ventures Podcast:

AI Ventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-ventures-podcast/

Adam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-knees/

X: https://x.com/AdamKnees

Guest Links:

sixtyfour.ai Website: https://sixtyfour.ai

Saarth's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saarthshah/

Christopher's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-price-59a24b178/

sixtyfour.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sixtyfourai/

]]> Adam Knees Buzzsprout-19302864 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:00:00 -0700 2930 1 2 full false AI CEO: Why The Software Industry Is Being Disrupted Faster Than Anyone Realizes AI CEO: Why The Software Industry Is Being Disrupted Faster Than Anyone Realizes Is AI about to automate the entire software development lifecycle? In this episode, Adam Knees sits down in person with Rakesh Kothari, CEO and Co-Founder of Deductive AI and former VP of Engineering at ThoughtSpot, to discuss why the software industry is being disrupted by AI agents faster than anyone realizes and what engineers, startup founders and AI leaders need to do about it before it is too late.

From building the checkout pipeline at Amazon Go to leading engineering at ThoughtSpot, Rakesh has spent decades solving the hardest problems in distributed systems, machine learning and enterprise software. Now he is building Deductive AI, an AI agent that autonomously debugs and fixes production systems in real time so engineers never have to carry a pager again.

Whether you are a Engineer, AI startup founder or just someone trying to stay ahead of where Silicon Valley AI Technology is heading, this episode is unmissable.

In this episode we cover:

  • Why the entire software development lifecycle is getting automated by AI agents
  • How AI is replacing on call engineers and transforming site reliability engineering
  • The biggest barriers to AI adoption inside enterprise companies
  • Why you should hire AI agents like employees, not buy them like software
  • How DoorDash and Foursquare are already using Deductive AI in production

Follow the AI Ventures Podcast: 

AI Ventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-ventures-podcast/ 

Adam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-knees/ 

X: https://x.com/AdamKnees

Guest Links: 

Deductive AI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deductive-ai

Rakesh's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkots/ 

Deductive AI Website: https://www.deductive.ai/

]]> Is AI about to automate the entire software development lifecycle? In this episode, Adam Knees sits down in person with Rakesh Kothari, CEO and Co-Founder of Deductive AI and former VP of Engineering at ThoughtSpot, to discuss why the software industry is being disrupted by AI agents faster than anyone realizes and what engineers, startup founders and AI leaders need to do about it before it is too late.

From building the checkout pipeline at Amazon Go to leading engineering at ThoughtSpot, Rakesh has spent decades solving the hardest problems in distributed systems, machine learning and enterprise software. Now he is building Deductive AI, an AI agent that autonomously debugs and fixes production systems in real time so engineers never have to carry a pager again.

Whether you are a Engineer, AI startup founder or just someone trying to stay ahead of where Silicon Valley AI Technology is heading, this episode is unmissable.

In this episode we cover:

  • Why the entire software development lifecycle is getting automated by AI agents
  • How AI is replacing on call engineers and transforming site reliability engineering
  • The biggest barriers to AI adoption inside enterprise companies
  • Why you should hire AI agents like employees, not buy them like software
  • How DoorDash and Foursquare are already using Deductive AI in production

Follow the AI Ventures Podcast: 

AI Ventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-ventures-podcast/ 

Adam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-knees/ 

X: https://x.com/AdamKnees

Guest Links: 

Deductive AI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deductive-ai

Rakesh's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkots/ 

Deductive AI Website: https://www.deductive.ai/

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