Building more than just an agent harness
Live from Microsoft Build, Ryan is joined by Jay Parikh, Microsoft’s VP of AI Core, for a conversation on what enterprises need to build, deploy, and run AI agents at scale with demonstrable ROI; how Microsoft built an end-to-end agent development system that goes past just the harness; and how you can evaluate for reliability and correctness in models that get more intelligent and autonomous everyday.
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This episode was recorded at Microsoft Build. Learn more about the announcement and news from Build, including Microsoft’s new GitHub app and Foundry platform, at the Microsoft blog.
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#144 CEO Lacework, Jay Parikh: Quiet Intensity
Guest: Jay Parikh, CEO of Lacework
Jay Parikh describes himself as a “stickler” for meetings that start and end on time, and holds himself to the same expectations as his workers. “It’s just really important as a leader to set the standard for how everybody else should be respected,” the Lacework CEO says. “Too often in our industry, executives think that they can show up late, hold a meeting late, and everybody will adjust.” No one will complain, he says, to the person on top of the org chart when they are 10 minutes late, but they should: “I’m like, no, I disrespected 10 minutes of your time. So I take that really seriously.”
In this episode, Jay and Joubin discuss non-traditional CEOs, surviving Facebook’s early days, disrupting yourself, Akamai co-founder Danny Lewin, cultivating culture, applying restless energy, the loneliness of leaders, brushing your teeth, the love of the game, and being approachable.
In this episode, we cover:
The “S-curve of learning” (01:04)
Finding new challenges (05:10)
“Is this too big of a job?” (07:33)
Intensity and zen (11:00)
Jay’s first jobs (15:07)
Akamai’s post-IPO pop and crash (16:31)
9/11 and Danny Lewin’s legacy (19:56)
Facebook’s pivot to mobile (24:58)
Managing morale when the share price drops (27:16)
Learning from Mark Zuckerberg (30:13)
Being on time (34:44)
Security in the cloud (37:58)
Leaving Facebook (40:01)
What has surprised Jay about becoming a CEO (45:00)
Hiring, onboarding, and unlocking people (49:34)
Jay’s favorite interview questions (54:34)
Refusing to compromise on greatness (01:00:44)
Balancing work and family (01:07:02)
Who Lacework is hiring and what “grit” means to Jay (01:09:06)
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S18:E7 - How a coding background can give you an edge in product management (Shruti Anand)
In this episode, we talk about product management with Shruti Anand, product manager at Lacework. Shruti talks about getting a bachelors in computer science and masters architecture and software engineering, then pivoting to product management, and how her technical background has given her an edge in her product management career.
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Shruti Anand
Shruti Anand is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Lacework, where her day to day revolves around bridging gaps between the customer and engineering when it comes to building scalable platforms. She has 7+ years of experience as a product manager in the technology sector, working for companies like HPE and Splunk, where she has worked with engineering teams to deliver solutions which focused on addressing self-service and manageability challenges for the platform. In her leisure time, Shruti either loves spending time with family and her two dogs or could be found reading a book, one of the recent being - My Life in full by Nooyi.