Barrchives

Temporal’s co-founders join Barr Yaron and Lenny Pruss to unpack how durable execution became the backbone of modern distributed apps and why it’s a perfect fit for AI agents. Samar and Max trace the path from Amazon SWF to Uber’s Cadence to founding Temporal, dig into developer experience choices, hard lessons with Cassandra, and what “code that can’t crash” really means in practice. This episode...

Factory co-founder and CEO Matan Grinberg joins Barr Yaron to talk about the future of agent-driven development , why enterprise migrations are the perfect wedge for AI adoption, and how software engineering is moving toward a world where humans orchestrate instead of implement. They dive into Factory’s origin story, the challenges of building AI systems for large organizations, and what the world...

Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel joins Barr Yaron and Sunil Dhaliwal to discuss the evolution of observability, the role of AI inside Datadog, and how the future of software development will be shaped by agents, voice interfaces, and new approaches to monitoring. From Datadog’s origins in the cloud shift to its latest AI-driven products like Bits AI, Olivier shares how the company is building for the fut...

In this episode of Barrchives , Barr Yaron sits down with Simon Eskildsen , co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer, to explore how he went from infrastructure challenges at Shopify to launching a groundbreaking vector database company. Simon shares his journey from recognizing the inefficiencies of traditional vector storage solutions to creating TurboPuffer, a revolutionary database designed specifica...

AI won’t fix healthcare unless it starts with the conversation. In this episode, Zachary Lipton—Chief Technology & Science Officer at Abridge and Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University—joins Barr Yaron for a deep, technical, and emotional dive into how AI can truly transform clinical care. From building a world-class ambient documentation system to tack...

What if deep learning isn’t the future of AI—but just part of it? In this episode, Ori Goshen, Co-founder and Co-CEO at AI21 Labs, shares why his team set out to build reliable, deterministic AI systems —long before ChatGPT made language models mainstream. We explore the launch of Wordtune, the development of Jamba, and the release of Maestro—AI21’s orchestration engine for enterprise agentic work...

What does it take to reimagine the browser—one of the most commoditized technologies in the world—for the enterprise? In this episode, Ofer Ben Noon , founder of Talon and now part of Palo Alto Networks , shares the wild journey from exploring digital health to building the world’s first enterprise-grade secure browser. We dig into: Why the browser became the new security perimeter How Talon raise...

Vanta helped create the automated security and compliance category—and now, they’re redefining it with AI. In this episode, Christina Cacioppo (CEO & Co-Founder) and Iccha Sethi (VP of Engineering) join Barr Yaron to go deep on how AI is transforming the way Vanta builds products, evaluates models, and helps companies earn and demonstrate trust. They cover: - Why compliance is the perfect play...

What if AI could talk back instantly—and naturally? In this episode, Karan Goel, Co-founder & CEO of Cartesia, joins Barr Yaron to unpack the future of voice AI, state space models (SSMs), and why audio is the next frontier in AI. Karan shares the founding story behind Cartesia, explains how alternate architectures like Mamba enable ultra-efficient, low-latency inference, and walks through how...

AI is changing the game for marketing, but how do businesses truly integrate AI into their workflows? In this episode, Kashish Gupta, Co-founder & Co-CEO of High Touch, joins Barr Yaron to break down the rise of Composable CDPs, the role of AI decisioning, and the future of automated marketing. They explore: - How High Touch pivoted into the Composable CDP space - Why marketers struggle with d...

This episode consists of the following chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to Jesse Zhang and Decagon 02:33 - Why customer support emerged as a clear use case for AI 05:00 - The importance of discovery and understanding customer value 08:20 - The Decagon product architecture: core AI agent, routing, and human assistance 11:01 - How enterprise logic is integrated into the AI agent 15:45 - Shared framewo...

Regal co-founders Alex Levin and Rebecca Greene see a future where AI doesn't just assist human agents in contact centers - it replaces them entirely at the front lines. In this episode of Barrchives, we discussed how they're building voice AI technology, the unique challenges of working with audio models, and what the future of customer service looks like.

Most of what you hear about AI right now is in text, but Mikey Shulman (co-founder and CEO of Suno) would tell you that audio is a much more interesting medium to work with. How do you use AI to generate music? What makes audio data uniquely difficult to parse? And how do you build audio models that cater to unique, subjective human preferences on music? Suno is building a future where anyone can...

AI and data teams in a sense, kind of, do the same thing: make decisions based on data. So how do you build AI that *helps* data teams do their best work? Hex was one of the first companies in their space to embrace language models and build code generation features into their data workspace. In this episode of Barrchives, I went deep with Hex’s co-founder and CEO, Barry McCardel, about Hex’s jour...

When it comes to building cutting-edge technology companies, Erik Bernhardsson's journey with Modal exemplifies the mix of passion, technical ingenuity, and adaptability required to succeed. From tackling infrastructure challenges in the data and AI space to navigating the nuanced dynamics of scaling a business, Modal’s story provides a masterclass in modern tech entrepreneurship.

Building a company isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s messy, nonlinear, and full of surprises. Jennifer Smith, CEO of Scribe, knows this better than most. In a recent episode of Barrchives, she shared the hard-earned lessons that helped her navigate the twists and turns of finding product-market fit. From trusting her instincts when others doubted her to rethinking how humans and AI can work toget...

From his early work in physics and mathematical simulation to leading Vision Pro development at Apple, Amit Jain has consistently pushed the boundaries of how computers process and understand our world. Now as the founder and CEO of Luma AI, he's tackling an even bigger challenge: building what he calls a "universal imagination engine." In this episode of Barrchives, Amit shares his perspective on...

Naveen Rao discovered artificial intelligence through science fiction in middle school, devouring the works of Asimov while his peers in Kentucky were doing whatever kids in Kentucky normally did. Growing up in a family of doctors, he chose a less conventional path, following his early interests in programming and circuit building. After establishing himself as an engineer, he stepped away to purs...

Tristan Handy’s move to develop dbt Labs meant stepping away from steady consulting revenue to build a product. With support from an open-source community and interest from enterprise clients, dbt quickly found a growing user base. By 2019, it had become a go-to tool for data professionals looking to streamline workflows and prepare data for AI. Today, dbt Labs serves over 50,000 teams globally, w...

Cristóbal Valenzuela , CEO and co-founder of Runway , is using AI to open up new pathways of expressing creativity. Cristóbal founded Runway with the idea that AI could expand the boundaries of what is possible in storytelling. This vision transformed the company from a model marketplace into a unique toolkit for artists, filmmakers, and creators that brings their visions to life.

Quinn Slack co-founded Sourcegraph to address the challenges his team faced in their own projects. After simplifying their internal process for navigating complex codebases, they realized that while smaller companies might not see this as a pressing issue, many enterprises did. Sourcegraph is the leading code intelligence platform that revolutionizes how developers understand, fix, and automate th...

Guillermo Rauch is changing the way frontend developers work. Guillermo Rauch started his first online business at just 11 years old in Argentina. A couple successful exits later, he’s now founder and CEO of Vercel . Vercel provides tools and cloud infrastructure for developers to build and scale a more personalized web. This episode of Barrchives gets into how and why Vercel’s AI products – v0 an...

Amjad Masad and Michele Catasta are lifelong developers on a mission to change how people learn to code. Amjad is the Founder & CEO of Replit. His journey started in Jordan, where he taught himself to code despite barely having internet access. That drive eventually led to Replit, a platform now used by millions to make it easier for developers to jump right into coding. Michele, President of...