In this conversation, Amit Goel, Vijay Rajendran, and Kushal Prakash debate why the 2024–25 hype cycle of generic copilots and chatbots failed enterprises, why "the juice isn't worth the squeeze" for most generic deployments, and why the next decade belongs to hyper-vertical AI — purpose-built systems that solve specific, deep, regulated workflows that horizontal models simply cannot.For accredited US investors interested in our startup fund, write to [email protected] investment is subject to accreditation verification. This podcast is not an offer to sell securities.

In this episode of the Build AI Podcast, Amit Goel sits down with Andrew Roberts, Co-Founder & CEO of Deliverables AI — the AI platform helping investment banks, private equity firms, and M&A advisors automate the creation of Confidential Information Memorandums (CIMs), pitch books, and investment committee decks.

What if the real winners in AI aren’t the ones using it… but the ones redesigning work around it?In this episode of the Build AI Podcast, we sit down with Lutz Finger — former product leader at Google, LinkedIn, and Snap, faculty at Cornell, and a leading voice in AI, product strategy, and generative workflows.From starting as a quantum physicist to building products in Silicon Valley, Lutz shares a powerful perspective on what’s actually changing in the AI era — and what most founders and enterprises are getting wrong.

Jason Shuman, Partner at Primary Venture Partners, $625M fund - the largest seed investor in New York on gAI Ventures podcast. In this episode, he shares exactly how he thinks about the Vertical AI opportunity, why hardware is massively underrated, and what founders are getting wrong about building in 2025.

Primary VC has backed companies like Latch, Dandy, Bobyard, Marker Learning, and Light Table - with ~90% of portfolio companies raising a Series A and ~20% becoming unicorns. Jason now leads Vertical AI and hardware autonomy investments, and he's one of the most vocal voices on X about the structural shifts reshaping software, services, and how companies are actually built today.

Nick Holzherr is a 3x founder, company builder, angel investor, and former CEO of Whisk (acquired by Samsung), where he scaled to 120 people and built one of the earliest fully distributed global teams before remote work was mainstream. Whisk scaled globally, integrated with Walmart, Amazon, Tesco, Nestlé and more, reached 4.8 app ratings, and was featured by Apple 200+ times before acquisition.Now, as Founder of GitLaw, Nick is rethinking how startups handle legal infrastructure in the AI era, offering open-source, lawyer-vetted documents powered by AI collaboration.🔗 Explore GitLaw (Free AI-powered legal templates):🎁 Get 1 month free with code: gaiventureshttps://git.law/?utm_source=Interview&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=gaipodcast

In this episode, we sit down with Jahn Karsybaev, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Big Sky Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm backing enterprise B2B SaaS and AI companies across the US, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.

In this episode, we sit down with Carter Huffman, CTO and Co-Founder of Modulate AI. GTA, Call of Duty, uses his Voice AI models.

In this episode, we sit down with Larissa, Founder and COO of Unframe AI. Instead of building a single AI product, Unframe AI was designed from day one as a multi-product, multi-industry AI platform, built on reusable building blocks that scale across enterprises.

The gAI Ventures team (Amit Goel, Vijay Rajendran, and Kushal Prakash) breaks down the most defining shifts in AI, from the headline-making Waymo baby moment, to the rapid rise of vertical AI, to the realities of multi-agent systems, workflow-level automation, and the new distribution layer emerging through AEO. This is a builder’s perspective on what actually worked, what quietly failed, and what’s coming next for founders, operators, and enterprise leaders deploying AI in the real world.

Navigate the most important shift in digital visibility - Discoverability in the LLM Era. The next wave of growth will come from mastering AI visibility, not just traditional SEO. In this episode, we sit down with Todd Sawicki, founder and CEO of Gumshoe, a platform that helps brands understand what AI thinks about them and what actions move the needle.