Mukund Jha is CEO of Emergent, an agentic vibe-coding platform. They've raised $23M from Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Together Fund, and Prosus. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Dunzo, a hugely popular ecommerce company in India.

Mukund's favorite books: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Author: Ben Horowitz)

(00:01 ) Intro
(00:07 ) State of vibe-coding and where we are today
(01:42 ) Emergent in plain English: what the product delivers
(03:07 ) From prototype to traction: the first 90 days
(06:03 ) What changed in the last 24 months (models + infra)
(08:13 ) Early infra bets that enabled speed
(12:07 ) Precision vs. control: editing and debugging without code
(14:21 ) One-click to production: the unglamorous infra behind it
(15:55 ) Points of failure across prompt → plan → code → test → deploy
(17:53 ) Models division of labor: planning, codegen, tests, commits
(20:05 ) What “reasoning” means and how they evaluate it
(22:13 ) Context & memory strategy (beyond naive RAG)
(24:22 ) Representing large codebases so agents don’t hallucinate structure
(27:03 ) Orchestration walkthrough: adding SSO end-to-end
(29:40 ) Agent coordination protocols (how agents talk)
(31:05 ) Debugging long-running agents and trace observability
(32:37 ) Company-building lessons from Dunzo to Emergent
(36:10 ) Philosophy: offloading decisions to models
(36:57 ) Rapid Fire Round

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukund-jha-a1596413/

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