Tune in to my conversation with Ravin Thambapillai, the co-founder and CEO of Credal.ai. They've raised about $5M (from YC, Spark Capital, Drive Capital) to build an AI application platform targeted at the enterprise. He's an Oxford graduate and Xoogler, and he and his co-founder (Jack Fischer) cut their teeth in the world of enterprise data security & AI at Palantir before starting Credal.
And today, we chat about Ravin's founder journey, going through YC, his discovery of the Credal thesis, how he thinks about the frontier AI models and their integration into his product, building AI for the enterprise, and so much more. It's a wide-ranging conversation with someone making AI more practical for everyone else.
00:00 Introductions
00:39 What is Credal?
05:26 From Palantir & COVID to Enterprise AI
13:38 Navigating AI, Open Source, and Models
17:24 Is OpenAI going to eat Perplexity?
23:19 The Future of AI and Enterprise Integration
24:17 The limits of foundational models
27:46 Does Ravin recommend Y Combinator?
31:13 Fundraising, venture capital, and the AI ecosystem
33:09 Advice for AI startup founders
36:00 Crowd Q&A
49:40 Thanks, and bye!
This is Episode 002 of The Sherveen Show.
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