MEETUP · SAN FRANCISCO
AI Won't Deploy Itself — In conversation with Arjun Prakash (CEO of Distyl)
The biggest challenge in enterprise AI isn’t making models smarter. It’s making them useful.
- When
- Wed, Oct 21
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT - Where
- South Beach, San Francisco, CA
- Host
- Outcast Ventures
- Entry
- Free to attend
About this event
The biggest challenge in enterprise AI isn’t making models smarter. It’s making them useful.
Join us for a conversation with Arjun Prakash, Co-founder and CEO of Distyl, an enterprise AI company valued at $2B and backed by $200M from Khosla Ventures, Coatue, and Lightspeed.
After spending eight years at Palantir building what would now account for 50% of Palantir’s revenue, Arjun Prakash left to co-found Distyl, betting that the biggest opportunity in enterprise AI wasn’t building better models, but making AI actually work inside the world’s largest companies.
Event starts at 5:00pm. Arjun will begin speaking at 5:30pm. Dinner will be served at 6:15pm.
Some of the questions we’ll explore:
- What did Palantir teach Arjun about building great companies that Silicon Valley still doesn’t understand? - Why Derek as his co-founder? What made him certain? - Why do so many enterprise AI projects fail while Distyl’s deployments make it into production? - Are enterprises actually seeing returns on their AI investments, or is the industry still selling promises? - If he were starting Distyl again today, what would he do differently? About Arjun Prakash: Arjun Prakash is the Co-founder and CEO of Distyl, an enterprise AI company building production-grade AI systems for the world’s largest organizations. Before founding Distyl, he spent eight years at Palantir, where he worked on deplo...
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