In this episode, Garuda Ventures co-founder Rishi Taparia joins Alchemist Accelerator CEO Ravi Belani to explore why the promise of AI teammates often stalls in the real world. Drawing on his experience as a VC, operator, and startup builder, Rishi explains why psychological friction, status dynamics, and expectation mismatches are bigger barriers than the tech itself.

You’ll learn:

• Why “AI teammates” are fundamentally different from tools—and why that matters

• How expectations vs. reality derails enterprise adoption

• Why status loss makes managers hesitant to deploy AI agents

• What startups need to understand before selling AI into the enterprise

• How to build trust and credibility inside slow-moving organizations

  
  

If you're building AI for the enterprise—or selling into it—this conversation will challenge your assumptions and give you a more grounded GTM strategy.

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In this episode, Alchemist Partner and GenAI expert Gnani Palanikumar reveals how AI agents are reshaping real industries like healthcare, supply chain, and life insurance. From reducing data prep time by 80 percent to enabling faster decisions, AI teammates are starting to do the work humans don’t have time for.

Gnani shares the mistakes founders keep making with GenAI and the exact process he uses to help startups build products customers are ready to buy.

In this episode:

- Why data scientists are stuck doing grunt work

- Where AI teammates create real value today

- The right way to validate startup ideas before building

- How to secure early adopters without a finished product

- Why customer interviews are powerful

If you’re building in AI, healthcare, or any complex B2B market, this is the playbook you didn’t know you needed.

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Relying on a single AI model might be holding your team back.

In this episode, Not Diamond co-founder and former VC Jeffrey Akiki joins Alchemist Accelerator CEO Ravi Belani to share why the smartest AI systems don’t depend on just one model or agent. They use a network of specialized agents, routed in real time for speed, cost, and performance.

You’ll learn:

• Why “bigger” AI isn’t always better

• How model routing can outperform even top-tier LLMs

• Why modularity and transparency matter for enterprise AI

• What startups can do to compete with the big players

• How Jeffrey’s VC background shaped his founder journey

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