Episodes 10
Avg. Duration 1h 1m
Activity Highly Active
Since Feb 2026
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
79%
Hosting
feeds.transistor.fm

About This Podcast

AI After Dark is a podcast hosted by Alex Gras, venture capitalist at Mercury, focused on how real companies are built once the hype fades and the hard decisions begin. Through candid conversations with founders, CTOs, and operators, the show cuts through buzzwords to talk about people, systems, risk, and the trade-offs that actually matter. Alex brings a background as an operator, founder, and revenue leader, with a belief that technology matters, but people come first. This podcast is for builders who care less about trends and more about what lasts.

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How AI Agents Are Changing Grocery Shopping Forever

Jun 09, 2026 1h Transcript

What happens when the models keep doubling and you have to bet your whole company on where they land? Daniel Vitiello of Cooklist Inc. gets into building AI native from day one, why his rule is to…

Ex-CIA Operator: Why America Is Losing The Cyber War

May 28, 2026 1h 5m Transcript

Ashley Vaughan spent years inside the CIA running cyber ops before realizing the tools meant to keep clandestine work invisible were leaving fingerprints all over the blockchain. Now she is building…

Ex-JPM Trader: Why Expertise Is No Longer The Edge

May 12, 2026 55m Transcript

Seven years trading at JP Morgan, a Fulbright scholarship to the US, and one circled line in a careers book at Warwick. Anekha Sokhal, Founder and Machine Learning Engineer at Moshi, walks through…

How AI Turned a Designer Into a CTO

Apr 29, 2026 1h Transcript

Going from designer to CTO sounds like an impossible career pivot, but Kyle Ledbetter, Co-Founder and CTO of Dreambase, walks through how AI handed him the permission slip he didn't know he needed.…

Why This AI Startup Doesn't Use AI For Math

Apr 21, 2026 1h Transcript

Hunter Honnessy, CTO and Co-Founder at Unlimited.ai, gets into what defensibility actually looks like when anyone can vibe code a SaaS over a weekend. Conversation runs through building moats with…

How AI Cut Hiring From 42 Days To An Afternoon

Apr 07, 2026 1h 2m Transcript

Alex Gras sits down with Gustavo Herrera, Founder and CTO of Knowme Global, to talk through why recruiting still sucks and how AI might actually fix it by doing the one thing everyone avoids, sitting…

The Best AI Product Is The One You Never Log Into

Mar 24, 2026 1h 14m Transcript

Bowden Kelly from Nutiliti joins Alex on AI After Dark to explain why being a fast follower beats bleeding-edge adoption, particularly when your customers just want accurate utility bills paid on…

How AI Could Turn 100,000 Homes Into A Power Plant

Mar 10, 2026 1h 4m Transcript

Matt Robillard from SmartAC joins Alex on AI After Dark to explain why he walked into a company with product-market fit but antiquated tech stack and immediately started rewriting everything with AI…

Chat Is The Lousiest Way To Interact With AI

Feb 24, 2026 1h 15m Transcript

Akhil Mantripragada from Pie joins Alex on AI After Dark to trace his journey from coding without a computer in eighth grade India to building a $100M+ revenue AI-native marketing platform for SMBs.…

Why The First Hire For An AI Startup Isn't An AI Engineer

Feb 18, 2026 59m Transcript

In this kickoff to a new series, AI After Dark, Alex Gras (VC @ Mercury Fund) talks with Canisius Rozario (CTO @ Collide) about how he built a top-tier AI team in oil & gas without any industry…

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How many episodes does AI After Dark have?

AI After Dark has published 10 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Business, Technology.

Is AI After Dark still active?

AI After Dark is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 1m.

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