Ankur Goyal
CEO and Founder of Braintrust Data, which provides an end-to-end platform for AI application development. Previously founded Impira which was acquired by Figma, and he later ran the AI team at Figma.
Top 5 podcasts with Ankur Goyal
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Oct 11, 2024 • 1h 57min
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust
Ankur Goyal, founder of Impira and former head of Figma AI, discusses the evolving landscape of AI engineering. He highlights the challenges in LLM Ops, emphasizing the importance of evaluations in systematic AI development. Ankur reflects on his journey navigating career pressures as a first-generation Indian student and shares insights from his experiences in tech startups. He dives into advancements in data extraction, the integration of software engineering principles with AI, and the significance of community feedback for product improvements.
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Feb 17, 2026 • 44min
Evals, Feedback Loops, and the Engineering That Makes AI Work
Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust and former databases/AI products engineer, joins to talk engineering, evals, and productionizing models. He explains what evals do and why feedback loops matter. They debate systems vs. scaling mindsets, compare SQL vs. Bash agent designs, and unpack open vs. closed model cycles and Chinese model dynamics.
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Oct 8, 2024 • 38min
Launching AI products with Braintrust’s CEO Ankur Goyal
Ankur Goyal, the founder and CEO of Braintrust and former VP of Engineering at SingleStore, discusses the fascinating dynamics of AI development. He highlights trends in AI tooling and the rise of open-source models, emphasizing their slow adoption in enterprises. Ankur also shares insights on building resilient AI products, the importance of a startup’s early customer base, and the evolving role of CEOs in tech—balancing coding with leadership. His perspective on the future of AI integration is equally intriguing and thought-provoking.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 52min
Evals are the new PRD. Here is the playbook with the CEO of the leader in the space (Ankur Goyal, Founder and CEO, Braintrust)
Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust, leads a major eval platform used by top AI product teams. He explains why evals should start the product process, how to build data-task-score evals, and shows a live demo creating an eval from scratch. Conversation covers scoring design, connecting evals to tools like Linear, and using failing evals as a roadmap for improvement.
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Jul 24, 2025 • 1h 10min
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
Ankur Goyal, Founder and CEO of Braintrust, shares his journey from dropping out of college to leading AI innovations. He discusses early lessons on software quality from MemSQL and the frustration that sparked Braintrust’s creation. Ankur reveals why they strategically delayed their market launch and dives into finding product-market fit in the AI landscape. He emphasizes that great software arises from a sense of 'paranoia,' highlighting the balance between skepticism and optimism in entrepreneurship.
