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
Hunter Honnessy from Unlimited.ai
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 run...
Gustavo Herrera from Knowme Global
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 on...
Bowden Kelly from Nutiliti
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 ac...
Matt Robillard from SmartAC
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 start...
Akhil Mantripragada from Pie
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-nati...