MindMakers

Storage used to be an afterthought. In the era of trillion-parameter models and agent swarms consuming millions of tokens per session, it has become one of the most strategically critical layers in the AI stack. On this episode of MindMakers, John Kim is joined by Val Bercovici , Chief AI Officer at WEKA, the AI storage and memory systems company. Val brings a rare vantage point of two decades acr...

As the bottleneck for AI innovation shifts away from the training layer, what will power the next wave of widespread enterprise implementation? On this episode of MindMakers , John Kim is joined by Fireworks AI’s Co-Founder, Benny Yufei Chen , to explore why inference has become the most critical layer in the AI stack. Drawing from his experience on the PyTorch team at Meta and building large-scal...

What will unlock real-world AI beyond chatbots and copilots? On this episode of MindMakers , host John Kim speaks with Jae Lee , CEO and Co-Founder of TwelveLabs, to explore how video is defining the next wave of artificial intelligence. Drawing from his background as a cybersecurity leader in the Korean military and his work pioneering video understanding models, Jae shares how TwelveLabs is buil...

What if your most valuable data isn’t in text, but in images, video, and audio you can’t yet search? On this episode of MindMakers , host John Kim is joined by Cody Coleman, CEO and Co-Founder of Coactive AI, to explore how enterprises can finally make sense of their image, video, and audio content.  Coactive AI was born ahead of the AI revolution in 2021, and their platform can instantly search,...

What’s really driving the next leap in AI for software development? On this episode of MindMakers , host John Kim sits down with Guy Gur-Ari, the Co-Founder of Augment Code, to unpack why the future of enterprise engineering isn’t just AI-generated code, it’s agentic systems that understand context at scale. Guy shares how Augment is helping large teams move beyond code completions into autonomous...

What’s holding back widespread, successful AI adoption? Today on MindMakers, host John Kim is joined by the CEO, Founder and Chairman of Reltio, Manish Sood, to explore how the real unlock isn’t just better models, but better data. Having founded Reltio in 2011, Manish shares how Reltio went from solving data sprawl to powering real-time Agentic AI at global scale. You’ll hear how companies like L...

With every new startup announcement containing “AI” somewhere in the headline, how do you build a differentiated product that stands the test of time? In this episode of MindMakers, host John Kim sits down with Bhavin Shah, CEO & Founder of Moveworks, for a thought provoking discussion on what it really takes to move beyond hype and into real business transformation.  Bhavin shares the evolution o...

Hospitals are flooded with AI pilots, but very few ever become real, scalable solutions. In this episode of MindMakers , host John Kim sits down with Pelu Tran , Co-Founder $ CEO of Ferrum Health, to unpack why AI in healthcare so often fails to move beyond the demo phase, and what it really takes to deploy with impact. With years of experience deploying clinical AI in some of the most complex, ri...

Is it possible to drive real businesses transformation with AI amidst reports that 95% of enterprise projects have been failing? On the debut episode of MindMakers , host John Kim is joined by Kevin Chung, Chief Strategy Officer of WRITER, to unpack what it really takes to scale enterprise AI efforts successfully. Kevin shares how WRITER evolved from a niche translation tool into the full-stack AI...

 AI is moving fast, but the real story isn't in the headlines, it's in the builders MindMakers is a show about the people turning bold ideas into working AI. The founders launching what's next. The investors shaping the ecosystem. The technologists changing how we live, work and connect. This is about what's happening behind the scenes. What's real, what's coming, and who's making it happen. Hoste...