Shaping the Future of Developer Productivity with Sourcegraph CEO - Quinn Slack | Ep 18

Akash Sharma is the founder and CEO of Vellum, a Y Combinator–backed developer platform launched in 2023 that helps engineering teams build production‑quality LLM (large language model) applications. He conceived Vellum after working extensively with GPT‑3 since its beta in 2020 and realizing how difficult it was to bring AI prototypes into reliable production. Prior to founding Vellum, Akash earned his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley and spent five years at McKinsey’s Silicon Valley office focusing on technology strategy and operations. Under his leadership, Vellum quickly raised seed funding from YC, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, and Eastlink Capital, and later secured a $20 million Series A as of July 2025. With Vellum, he’s delivering the tooling and methodologies needed to bridge the gap from AI experiments to scalable, robust applications. The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the AI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our growing community of 70,000+ founders, funders, and thought leaders. PODCAST CREATED BY THE AI COLLECTIVE:Website: https://www.aicollective.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aicollective/Twitter: https://x.com/_ai_collectiveSlack: https://join.slack.com/t/genai-collective/shared_invite/zt-1ya6vi6ti-h8nzjNxISgPfEtya89F2Kw HOST:Magnus Kubo-AllenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magnuskuboallen/Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magnuskuboallen/ GUEST:Akash SharmaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akash-sharma53/Twitter: https://x.com/akashsharma503 MUSIC: "jiglr - Odyssey" is under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 3.0) license:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusicMusic powered by BreakingCopyright:    • 🤖 Technology & Synthwave (Free Music) - "ODYSSEY" by Jiglr “The Labyrinth” by DaniHaDanihttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/artist/danihadani/2295The Labyrinth

David Corbitt is the cofounder and Chief Product Officer of OpenPipe, a Y Combinator-backed AI startup launched in 2023 by brothers Kyle and David Corbitt. OpenPipe helps developers convert expensive, slow GPT-3.5/4 prompts into customized fine-tuned language models that deliver similar or better performance at a fraction of the cost and latency.Before starting OpenPipe, David worked at Palantir and Qualtrics and also cofounded GenerationalStory, a video legacy startup focused on preserving family histories. With a background in both technical roles and entrepreneurship, he now helps engineers easily fine-tune and deploy AI models without requiring deep machine learning expertise.The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the AI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our growing community of 70,000+ founders, funders, and thought leaders.PODCAST CREATED BY THE AI COLLECTIVE:Website: https://www.aicollective.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aicollective/Twitter: https://x.com/_ai_collectiveSlack: https://join.slack.com/t/genai-collective/shared_invite/zt-1ya6vi6ti-h8nzjNxISgPfEtya89F2KwHOST:Magnus Kubo-AllenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magnuskuboallen/Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magnuskuboallen/GUEST:David CorbittLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcorbitt/Twitter: https://x.com/dvdcrbtMUSIC:"jiglr - Odyssey" is under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 3.0) license:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusicMusic powered by BreakingCopyright:    • 🤖 Technology & Synthwave (Free Music) - "ODYSSEY" by Jiglr“The Labyrinth” by DaniHaDanihttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/artist/danihadani/2295The Labyrinth

Avthar Sewrathan is currently product lead of AI for Timescale, a modern cloud platform built on PostgreSQL. Prior to Timescale, he cofounded Afari inc, a decentralized social newtork, and founded Zayo, a social enterprise for for female students in developing countries. Timescale's mission is to serve developers as they create the next wave of computing. The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the GenAI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our growing community of 15,000+ founders, funders, and thought leaders. PODCAST CREATED BY THE GENAI COLLECTIVE: Website: https://www.genaicollective.ai/ LinkedIn:  / genaicollective   Twitter:  / genaicollective   Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/genai-collec... HOST: Thomas Joshi LinkedIn:  / thomas-joshi   Twitter: https://x.com/thomastjoshi GUEST: Avthar Sewrathan LinkedIn:  / avthars   Twitter: https://x.com/avthars

Paul Klein IV is the founder of BrowserBase, an all-in-one platform for developers to host, manage, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud. BrowserBase is creates open source projects, like Open Operator and StageHand, to bolster AI Web Agents. Before BrowserBase, Paul attended San Francisco State University, graduating as the 2017 Computer Science Departmental Honoree. After graduating, Klein went on to work for Twilio, StreamClub, and Mux before founding BrowserBase.Increasingly more functions on a computer are based on web browsers. Although AI can interact with computers similarly to humans, a more optimal method is through headless browsers. Headless browsers allow AI to function on the internet without a GUI, increasing the number of tasks possible on a lower power output.The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the GenAI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our growing community of 15,000+ founders, funders, and thought leaders. PODCAST CREATED BY THE GENAI COLLECTIVE:Website: https://www.genaicollective.ai/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genaicollectiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/genaicollectiveSlack: https://join.slack.com/t/genai-collective/shared_invite/zt-1ya6vi6ti-h8nzjNxISgPfEtya89F2Kw HOST:Thomas JoshiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-joshi/Twitter: https://x.com/thomastjoshi GUEST:Paul Klein IVLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkleiniv/Twitter: https://twitter.com/pk_iv/

The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the GenAI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our growing community of 15,000+ founders, funders, and thought leaders. PODCAST CREATED BY THE GENAI COLLECTIVE:Website: https://www.genaicollective.ai/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genaicollectiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/genaicollectiveSlack: https://join.slack.com/t/genai-collective/shared_invite/zt-1ya6vi6ti-h8nzjNxISgPfEtya89F2Kw HOST:Thomas JoshiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-joshi/Twitter: https://x.com/thomastjoshi GUEST:Henry ShiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrythe9th/Twitter: https://x.com/henrythe9ths MUSIC: "jiglr - Odyssey" is under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 3.0) license:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusicMusic powered by BreakingCopyright:    • 🤖 Technology & Synthwave (Free Music) - "ODYSSEY" by Jiglr “The Labyrinth” by DaniHaDanihttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/artist/danihadani/2295The Labyrinth-#shorts #technology #podcast

Quinn Slack is the co-founder and CEO of Sourcegraph, a leading company specializing in AI-powered code search and intelligence tools that enhance developer productivity. Before Sourcegraph, Quinn co-founded Blend Labs, a company focused on improving the home lending process through technology. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, where his passion for solving complex problems in both software development and financial technology took shape. The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the GenAI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our growing community of 15,000+ founders, funders, and thought leaders. PODCAST CREATED BY THE GENAI COLLECTIVE: Website: https://www.genaicollective.ai/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genaicollective Twitter: http://twitter.com/genaicollective Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/genai-collective/shared_invite/zt-1ya6vi6ti-h8nzjNxISgPfEtya89F2Kw GUEST: Quinn Slack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinnslack/ Twitter: https://x.com/sqs HOST: Thomas Joshi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-joshi/ Twitter: https://x.com/thomastjoshi MUSIC: "jiglr - Odyssey" is under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusic Music powered by BreakingCopyright: • 🤖 Technology & Synthwave (Free Music) - "ODYSSEY" by Jiglr “The Labyrinth” by DaniHaDani https://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/artist/danihadani/2295 The Labyrinth  

The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the GenAI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our growing community of 15,000+ founders, funders, and thought leaders. PODCAST CREATED BY THE GENAI COLLECTIVE: Website: https://www.genaicollective.ai/ LinkedIn:  / genaicollective   Twitter:  / genaicollective   Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/genai-collec... HOST: Thomas Joshi LinkedIn:  / thomas-joshi   Twitter:  / tomjoshi2   MUSIC: "jiglr - Odyssey" is under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...  / jiglrmusic   Music powered by BreakingCopyright: •    • 🤖 Technology & Synthwave (Free Music)...   “The Labyrinth” by DaniHaDani https://artlist.io/royalty-free-music...    • The Labyrinth  

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