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AI Ready

Haroon Choudery 10 Episodes Oct 23, 2025

AI Ready is a podcast that explores how top founders and CEOs are integrating artificial intelligence into their companies. Host Haroon Choudery interviews tech leaders about their real-world experiences, including successes, challenges, and practical strategies. The show aims to help startup founders, operators, and tech leaders move from AI curiosity to AI deployment, cutting through hype to focus on what actually works.

Episodes

Inside Co-Founder: The AI Built That Can Run a Billion-Dollar Company | Andrew Pignanelli, Co-Founder (GIC)
Inside Co-Founder: The AI Built That Can Run a Billion-Dollar Company | Andrew Pignanelli, Co-Founder (GIC) Oct 23, 2025 00:57:49 About a month ago, Andrew Pignanelli’s LinkedIn post launching Co-Founder, an AI chief-of-staff that runs your business with you, went viral.In this episode, we go behind that moment to unpack the tech, product, and philosophy behind it. Andrew shares how The General Intelligence Company (GIC) is building agent systems that remember context, make long-term decisions, and act autonomously.We dig in
How to Kickstart Your Career in the AI Era | Christine Y. Cruzvergara (Chief Education Strategy Officer at Handshake)
How to Kickstart Your Career in the AI Era | Christine Y. Cruzvergara (Chief Education Strategy Officer at Handshake) Oct 14, 2025 00:53:53 Christine Y. Cruzvergara is Chief Education Strategy Officer at Handshake, where she partners with colleges and universities to help millions of students find their first jobs and internships.Before joining Handshake, Christine served in senior roles at Wellesley, Georgetown, George Mason, and George Washington University, building scalable career education programs that bridge campus to career.--
The Secret Ingredient to AI Adoption Nobody Talks About | James Evans (Head of AI at Amplitude)
The Secret Ingredient to AI Adoption Nobody Talks About | James Evans (Head of AI at Amplitude) Sep 24, 2025 00:55:33 Most analytics tools tell you what happened. James Evans argues that in the age of AI, tools need to tell you what to do next.In this episode, James shares how Amplitude is rethinking analytics with AI -- from anomaly detection that surfaces fixes, to session replay that could replace brittle event taxonomies. We dig into the cultural and technical shifts teams need to make to become AI-ready: emb
The Test That Decides Whether Your AI Pilot Survives | Tomasz Tunguz (Founder of Theory Ventures)
The Test That Decides Whether Your AI Pilot Survives | Tomasz Tunguz (Founder of Theory Ventures) Sep 17, 2025 00:48:53 Tomasz Tunguz is the founder and General Partner at Theory Ventures. He launched Theory’s debut $230M fund in 2023 and has continued to scale the firm. Previously, Tomasz spent over a decade at Redpoint Ventures, where his blog and analyses helped shape how founders and investors measure SaaS growth. Today, he’s focused on how AI changes go-to-market, moats, metrics, and valuation -  translating o
How to Code Smarter with AI (and Avoid the Biggest Mistakes) | Elie Schoppik (Head of Education)
How to Code Smarter with AI (and Avoid the Biggest Mistakes) | Elie Schoppik (Head of Education) Sep 9, 2025 00:57:51 Elie Schoppik leads Technical Education at Anthropic, where he builds Claude Code’s learning-first workflows and Anthropic Academy to help teams verify outputs, instead of just consuming them.Before Anthropic, Elie co-founded early ed-tech products and Rhythm School, a Bay Area coding bootcamp that trained thousands of developers. With a background at the intersection of pedagogy and engineering,
5 Rules for Shipping AI Your Customers Actually Trust — Lessons from Vanta’s CPO
5 Rules for Shipping AI Your Customers Actually Trust — Lessons from Vanta’s CPO Sep 3, 2025 01:04:58 Jeremy Epling is the Chief Product Officer at Vanta, the leading trust management platform helping 7,000+ companies automate security and prove compliance.Before Vanta, he spent over a decade building some of the most widely used developer products — from GitHub Actions and Codespaces to OneDrive and Azure. Today, Jeremy is leading Vanta’s AI transformation, rethinking how trust and security can b
Why Intercom Bet the Company on AI—and How It Paid Off With $100M in ARR
Why Intercom Bet the Company on AI—and How It Paid Off With $100M in ARR Aug 27, 2025 00:51:44 Des Traynor is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Intercom, the customer communication platform used by 25,000+ companies worldwide.He’s spent over a decade helping Intercom scale from a startup into one of SaaS’s most iconic brands. Today, Des is leading the company’s shift into the AI era — rethinking how support, success, and customer engagement work when AI becomes the default.—Broug
Scaling AI Across 700 Employees: Zapier’s Brandon Sammut on Driving Real Adoption
Scaling AI Across 700 Employees: Zapier’s Brandon Sammut on Driving Real Adoption Aug 27, 2025 00:51:52 Brandon Sammut is the Chief People Officer at Zapier, one of the earliest and most successful no-code automation companies.With over 800 fully remote employees, Zapier has been at the forefront of workflow automation for more than a decade. Brandon’s role sits at the intersection of people, culture, and technology — giving him a unique vantage point on how to drive company-wide AI adoption at scal
Building the “Iron Man Suit” for Finance: Siqi Chen on Rethinking Decisions with AI
Building the “Iron Man Suit” for Finance: Siqi Chen on Rethinking Decisions with AI Aug 27, 2025 01:02:09 Siqi Chen is the founder and CEO of Runway, a next-gen FP&A -- financial planning and analysis platform.After experiencing firsthand how broken decision-making was — especially during COVID revenue shocks — Siqi set out to build a tool that empowers operators to make sharper, faster calls. Instead of endless spreadsheets and fragile assumptions, Runway gives teams AI-powered decision support that
Welcome to The AI Ready Show
Welcome to The AI Ready Show Aug 26, 2025 00:01:05 Welcome to The AI Ready Show. I’m Haroon Choudery, and my goal is simple: I'm going to make you AI-ready. Each week, I'll bring you lessons from leaders on the frontlines — plus practical steps you can use right away — to make AI actually work inside your org. This is your AI masterclass, and it starts now.

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