Future of Software, Agents in the Enterprise, and Inception Stage Company Building // MLOps Podcast 293 with Eliot Durbin, General Partner at Boldstart Ventures.

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// Abstract

Key lessons for founders who are thinking about or starting their companies. 15 years of inception stage investing from how data science companies like Yhat went to market in 2013-14 and how that's evolved, to building companies around OSS frameworks like CrewAI; Eliot shares key learnings and questions for founders starting out.

// Bio

Eliot has been a General Partner @ Boldstart Ventures since its founding in 2010. Boldstart is an inception-stage lead investor for technical founders building the next generation of enterprise companies such as Clay, Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, Superhuman, and CrewAI.

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Website: boldstart.vchttps://medium.com/@etdurbin

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Eliot's preferred coffee

[00:32] Takeaways

[01:36] Investing Regret Lesson

[03:20] Founder-Market Fit Exploration

[06:05] Exciting AI Missions

[16:15] AI Integration Dilemmas

[21:28] Open-source Stack Concerns

[25:30] AI Agent Interaction Layers

[30:02] ChatOps Agent Orchestration

[33:18] Agent Pricing Challenges

[38:37] Evals in Agent Systems

[45:43] Strong Opinions and Enablement

[48:07] Gemini OCR Replacement

[51:56] Wrap up