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.
Latest Episodes
AI Is Making Software Easier to Build and Harder to Buy
Innovation gets treated like a tech problem, but Patrick Keltner of Griffin Partners argues it's really about people and building the space to actually change. He brea...
He’s Building an AI Transaction Coordinator for Real Estate
From a food startup that accidentally became a catering company, to a fitness business he sold, to a real estate tool launching now, Nathaniel McNamara has surfed ever...
How AI Agents Are Changing Grocery Shopping Forever
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 fro...
Ex-CIA Operator: Why America Is Losing The Cyber War
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 ...
Ex-JPM Trader: Why Expertise Is No Longer The Edge
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 Eng...