Jay Madheswaran is the founder and CEO of Butler Labs, a platform that helps developers turn AI into easy to use APIs. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed, one of the most successful VC firms in the world. Before that, he was the first engineer at Rubrik, which went to become a multibillion dollar company.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- his learnings as the first engineer at Rubrik and being there during the 0-1 phase
- how he evaluates companies as a VC
- how to equip software engineers to use AI tools
- what he's building at Butler Labs
- how they validated the problem with their customers
- how they got their first 5 customers
- trends in ML infrastructure
- product discipline in ML
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