Is LLM the New Operating System? | Anant Bhardwaj, CEO of Instabase

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

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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Where to find Anant Bhardwaj:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anantpb/
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
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