Sushanth (Shushant) Raman

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542 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E406: Why AI Won't Transform Most Enterprises for 10 Years · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I would say is that you sort of don't have a good mental model anymore of how to build out your leadership bench.

Like for example, there's a lot of leaders who learned how to build a great SaaS company.

That does not mean that they would be great at leading your AI deployments team, or they would be the best at leading your engineering team because they were trained in this old school paradigm.

So now you have a choice of, do I bet on my hungry... The number of people that I've experienced with LLMs is like less than...

like under four years, right?

There's not that many people with lots of experience.

The 21-year-old might actually have more experience today than the 37-year-old that looks senior.

So in that world, who do you promote into your leadership bench and what does the leadership bench of the future look like?

So these are the kind of counterintuitive decisions on the people side you have to deal with in a way that I didn't think was true of the last generation.

This is partially true, but I do think that there's also value in those 30 year old engineers that are still mentally flexible and that have a good understanding on how to build scale systems and have good taste on system design.

So I think that what you're really looking for more than age or any factor is how much does this person approach problem solving from first principles?

The moment you hear someone in an interview be like, I've done this before and I have experienced immediate red flag.

That signals to me that I think there was a case at Palette where someone once told me that

They have 20 years of experience.

And I was like, I don't give a shit.

I don't give a shit that you have 20 years of experience in this field.

It's changed.

What I care about is if you come to the right answer, not the fact that you had 20 years of experience in the past.

You have to value first principles thinking.

I mean, there are some cases of best practices.

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