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
What an Ex-Palantir Executive Learned Selling Terrorist-Hunting Software to Oil Companies
Lila (Ontiveros) Flores spent nearly six years helping grow Palantir’s commercial business from a dozen US customers to 615, and now she’s a board member at Woodforest...
"You Completely Automated My Job." Now What?
Margaritas and a little league draft app somehow turned into a business. Zach Smith left Uber, bought a small dental benefits company, and now runs Houston AI Help, em...
We Want Everyone Using AI. Then We Judge Them for It
Front porches became phone lines, phone lines became chat rooms, and now the whole conversation is a thumbs up emoji. That is the thread Prasanth Chilukuri, Founder an...
AI Can Do Anything. That’s the Problem.
Blockchain was supposed to fix oil and gas payments. It didn't. Cameron Sinclair, CEO of SmartChain, explains why the company traded smart blockchain for smart supply ...
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...