Building With AI

Zachary Lipton is the Co-founder and CTO of Abridge, an AI healthcare company that recently raised $300M at a $5.3B valuation to transform clinical documentation with ambient AI.  We discuss his journey from jazz musician to ML researcher to startup co-founder, and how personal experience led him to reinvent the doctor–patient encounter.  We also discuss:  - Deploying AI in live hospital settings,...

Roman Bugaev is the CTO at Flo, one of the world’s largest health and fitness apps, with over 75 million monthly active users. Flo is revolutionizing women’s health by leveraging AI to personalize insights, improve engagement, and ensure medical safety at scale. In this conversation, we dive deep into how AI is transforming digital health, from predictive cycle tracking to AI-powered chatbots that...

Dr. Graham Walker is an Emergency Physician and the Founder of MDCalc, a clinical decision support tool used by over 70% of U.S. physicians. He also co-founded Offcall, a platform addressing physician burnout through transparency and data-driven insights. We dive deep into the real-world use cases of AI in hospitals—from predictive models that detect patient deterioration to generative AI scribes...

Imaad Rashid, Director of AI Product Commercialization at Qventus, has spent seven years driving AI-powered healthcare automation. He was key in building Qventus’ inpatient command center and later led delivery and operations teams. Before Qventus, he worked on outpatient care optimization at Clockwise MD (acquired by Warburg Pincus) and founded Blue Check Health, a startup focused on reducing hos...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits down with Brian Kalis, the Health Strategy Lead at Accenture. With over two decades of experience helping leading healthcare organizations navigate digital transformation, Brian brings valuable perspective from his work at one of the world's largest consulting firms. During the conversation, he discusses: The evolution of AI in healthc...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery sits down with Scott White, a Product leader at Anthropic. Scott brings a wealth of experience from his time at companies like Dropbox, Wealthfront, Instacart, and Airtable. At Airtable, Scott first gained hands-on experience integrating LLMs into software. At Anthropic, Scott contributed to the development of Claude. During the conversation...

In this episode, host Hamza Choudery is joined by Sridhar Ramaswamy, the CEO of Snowflake. Before taking the helm at Snowflake, Sridhar scaled Google's ads business from ~$1B to $115 billion and founded one of the first AI search companies, Neeva (which was acquired by Snowflake in 2023). During the episode, he discusses: The first principles for AI product building, The importance of product velo...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Tomasz Tunguz, Founder and General Partner at Theory Ventures. Tomasz brings a valuable 10,000-foot view of the AI space, drawing from his 16 years of experience as a VC and previous work building machine learning systems at Google. During the episode, Tomasz discusses: The modern data stack for LLMs, The significance of human eva...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery sits with Jayodita Sanghvi, Senior Director of Data Science at Included Health. Jayodita completed a PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford before jumping in industry with the goal of raising the standard of healthcare for everyone. In her current role leading data science at Included Health, her team uses AI to help simplify healthcare for users...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits down with Rahul Sonwalkar, the founder and CEO of  Julius.ai , an AI data analyst that helps users analyze datasets, create visualizations, and gain insights from structured data. They discuss Rahul's entrepreneurial journey, including his time at big tech companies like Facebook and Uber, the infamous "Ligma Johnson" prank, and the la...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery sits down with Quentin Clark, Managing Director at General Catalyst. Drawing from his extensive background, including senior engineering and product roles at Microsoft and serving as CTO at SAP and Dropbox, Quentin offers a privileged perspective on the latest wave of AI. He provides an insightful breakdown of the modern AI stack—covering ha...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery is hosting Akilesh, the CEO and founder of DeepScribe - a health tech company that uses LLMs and NLP to augment clinical documentation. Akilesh grew up watching his dad, an oncologist, slog over tedious documentation tasks. Inspired by his father and their shared vision of a Jarvis-like assistant for doctors, he dove into the intersection of...

In this episode of Building With AI, Haroon Choudery is joined by Dan Dayon, the founder of Readwise - a platform that enhances memory retention from reading by providing an all-in-one solution for managing digital content. Last year, Readwise ventured into the world of AI by launching Ghostreader, their AI reading assistant.   During the episode, Dan talks about: UI/UX challenges he faced when de...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Naveen Rao, VP of GenAI at Databricks. Naveen is a serial entrepreneur who established the first AI chip company, which he sold to Intel in 2016. He then founded MosaicML in 2020, which was acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion last year.   During the episode, he shares: MosaicML’s jobs to be done, Why MosaicML teamed up with...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Hamza Choudery is joined by Vinod Khosla, the Founder of Khosla Ventures and a renowned technologist. Vinod has played a key role in Silicon Valley's history and is currently at the forefront of the latest wave of AI adoption as the first investor in OpenAI. During the conversation, they discuss: Vinod's philosophy on risk, Advice for entrepreneurs buildin...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Phil Vander Broek, Co-founder and CPO, and Karthik Sethuraman, a staff engineer at Dopt. Phil and Kathrik transitioned Dopt from a traditional SaaS platform to one that uses AI for in-product education and onboarding, leading to the launch of AI Assist earlier this month.   During the conversation, they discuss: How Dopt adopte...

In this episode of Building With AI, the host, Haroon Choudery, welcomes Shaun Modi, the CEO and Co-founder of Capitol AI. Shaun began his career as a UX designer at Google and an industrial designer at NASA. In 2014, he established his own design firm and launched over 50 products. He’s since founded Capitol AI, a knowledge engine and content generation platform that creates impactful stories.  D...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Tereza Tizkova, the Founding Member and Head of Growth and Community at e2b. Tereza's journey took her from a non-technical position as a Consultant at McKinsey to a pivotal role at e2b. The platform offers secure, sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents and AI apps. During the conversation, they discuss: Trust, safety, and...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Yasser Elsaid, Founder of Chatbase. After facing unexpected layoffs in his industry, Yasser transformed adversity into opportunity by creating Chatbase. This innovative AI product, now doing $3M in ARR, empowers companies to develop custom chatbots for their websites, revolutionizing customer interactions. During the conversati...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Otto von Zastrow-Marcks , Founder and CEO of Midpage. Otto's journey from robotics to legal tech was motivated by the challenges lawyers encounter early in their careers. With Midpage, he introduced a generative AI platform designed to assist US lawyers in research and case drafting. During the conversation, they discuss: Why a...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Bryan Bischof, the AI lead at Hex. Bryan joined the Hex Magic team in 2023, leveraging his insights to improve data science workflows through LLM integrations. During the conversation, they discuss: The Hex way of approaching jobs to be done, Why Bryan is over synthetic data, Bryan's three-stage recommender system, Retrieval te...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Chelsey Tanaka, the Product Lead for AI at Airtable. Chelsey is a seasoned product manager with over 12 years of experience in enterprise SaaS companies across diverse industries like energy, construction, and autonomous vehicles. During the conversation, they discuss: How Airtable integrated AI into their product, Large enterp...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Jason Liu, a seasoned AI operator and consultant who advises seed-stage start-ups on tech strategy, research, and infrastructure.  With several years of experience in machine learning, Jason has gained recognition for creating AI-specific dev tooling and contributing to several open-source projects. During the conversation, the...

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Logan Kilpatrick, who leads developer relations at OpenAI. After a year at the frontier of AI development, Logan digs into an important question: How do you empower developers to build with GenAI? During the conversation, they discuss: Crafting robust and reliable AI systems, The trade-off between creativity and control, The ro...

In this episode of Building with AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Fergal Reid, VP of AI at Intercom, a platform that empowers businesses to deliver better customer support. Fergal sheds light on Intercom's transition into an AI-first company, highlighting his role as the first dedicated machine learning hire. He narrates the various changes and developments that the company experienced during th...