Avi Bharadwaj

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Talking AI · The VC's Lens: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Defensibility · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Then I was a data scientist at IBM for a few years.

So I think what I really liked is the sort of constant intellectual curiosity aspect of the job that I had, like working deep in technical details and so on.

But I wanted to work with early stage startups.

But not with one startup, right?

I wanted to still have this intellectual curiosity of moving from problem to problem or learning from the cutting edge of whatever is happening across the board.

And coincidentally, a fund at that time was looking for someone with my background because they were seeing a lot of technical data science heavy companies, and they wanted someone with my background to help analyze those companies.

And I think VC is one of these careers where you'll see people from

From so many backgrounds.

You'll see former product managers, you'll see investment bankers, management consultants, founders, operators.

Right.

So I think unlike Yeah, operators, exactly.

So unlike let's say private equity or other areas of finance, venture is a space where people from having this diversity of backgrounds is really helpful because y y you you you're pattern matching to an extent, but you're also looking at things where there is no pattern, right?

I think yeah, that that was essentially the transition and yeah.

been twelve years and I've really enjoyed it.

I've enjoyed being the sidekick to some of the smartest people out there.

Yeah, the coolest thing about being a BC is as I said, you get this front row seat across a bunch of different founders who are all building amazing things where you you like one week it's you and you're learning a lot.

It you have yeah uh if you have intellectual curiosity, I think you can learn a lot.

I think uh the part of the job is essentially learning about new cool stuff that's happening in the world.

So I think that's probably the coolest thing.

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