AI Ready

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...

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....

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: em...

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...

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,...

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...

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. — Br...

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 sca...

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. 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.