Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, an AI-native unstructured data platform. They've raised $322M in funding to date from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and Index Ventures. He did his masters from Stanford and PhD from MIT. 

Anant's favorite book: The Singularity Is Near (Author: Ray Kurzweil)

(00:07 ) Defining Unstructured Data
(01:18 ) The Growth of Unstructured Data and Its Challenges
(02:05 ) Evolution of Tools for Analyzing Unstructured Data
(04:25 ) How Large Language Models (LLMs) Changed Data Processing
(05:27 ) Do We Still Need ETL in the LLM Era?
(06:05 ) Structured Queries vs. Direct Unstructured Querying
(08:22 ) Applying LLMs in Enterprise Settings
(09:34 ) Ensuring Accuracy in AI-Driven Data Analysis
(11:29 ) SQL vs. AI-Driven Queries in Business Use Cases
(13:48 ) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Enterprise AI
(15:02 ) The Founding of Instabase and Its Early Vision
(19:03 ) Building the MVP of Instabase
(22:52 ) First 10 Customers: Lessons from Early Sales
(26:01 ) Scaling Customer Acquisition: Experiments and Failures
(30:35 ) When to Hire a Sales Team: Key Lessons
(33:52 ) AI Adoption at Instabase for Internal Productivity
(37:48 ) The Technology Stack Behind Instabase
(42:36 ) Transition from OS-Based Architecture to LLM-Based System
(43:45 ) Rapid Fire Questions

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