AI Ready

How do today’s top founders go from AI curious to AI ready?On AI Ready, we sit down with leading tech builders, CEOs, and innovators to uncover how they’re adopting AI inside their companies — the wins, the setbacks, and the strategies that actually work.Each episode features a candid conversation with a founder who has been in the trenches, making the shift from exploring AI to deploying it in products, teams, and strategy.If you’re a startup founder, operator, or tech leader who wants to cut through the hype and learn what it really takes to build with AI, this show is for you.

AI Ready is a technology podcast hosted by Haroon Choudery, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Haroon Choudery hosts AI Ready, a technology show with 10 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  Inside Co-Founder: The AI Built That Can Run a Billion-Dollar Company | Andrew Pignanelli, Co-Founder (GIC)

  Oct 23, 202558 minS1

  <p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>We dig into the company’s two-agent architecture, memory layers, and the culture of experimentation that shaped the build. Plus, what it means to “run vision-first” in a space moving this fast.</p><p>--</p><p>Bro...

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  Episode #8

  How to Kickstart Your Career in the AI Era | Christine Y. Cruzvergara (Chief Education Strategy Officer at Handshake)

  Oct 14, 202554 minS1

  <p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>--</p><p>What You’ll Learn</p>The real skills employers want from graduates in the AI eraHow Handshake AI and the new Fellowship program train students to work with AI, not against itWhy your first job should be tr...

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  Episode #7

  The Secret Ingredient to AI Adoption Nobody Talks About | James Evans (Head of AI at Amplitude)

  Sep 24, 202556 minS1

  <p>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.</p><p>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: embedding copilots into real workflows, running hack sprints instead of hackathons, and proving adoption through prototypes, not PRDs.</p><p>—</p><p>Brought to you by Autoskills (https://autoskills.ai...

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  Episode #6

  The Test That Decides Whether Your AI Pilot Survives | Tomasz Tunguz (Founder of Theory Ventures)

  Sep 17, 202549 minS1

  <p>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 old SaaS playbooks into practical advice for AI-native founders.</p><p>We recorded this conversation a few months ago, but the lessons are just as relevant today. In this episode, Tomasz explains which SaaS-era rules still...

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  Episode #5

  How to Code Smarter with AI (and Avoid the Biggest Mistakes) | Elie Schoppik (Head of Education)

  Sep 9, 202558 minS1

  <p>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.</p><p>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, Elie’s work is focused on designing exercises, evals, and prototype workflows that teach durable judgment and make AI adoption safer and more useful.</p><p>In this episode, Elie shares concrete frameworks, playbooks, and hands-on exercises that product and...

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