The Internet Is Getting a Billion New Users. None Are Human | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix & Tinyfish

About this episode

Sudheesh Nair discusses the evolution of the internet as it transitions to a model driven by AI agents.

From employee #16 to $1B ARR at Nutanix, then scaling ThoughtSpot to $150M ARR and a $4B+ valuation now building for a world where agents will drive the internet. Sudheesh Nair joins the Neon Show. The internet as we see it today was optimized around human strengths and weaknesses, using algorithms to monetize our greed and fear. But as agents take up more of the internet, that playbook starts to break. We are moving from a web of discovery to an outcome-driven internet, where agents care onl...

People in this episode

Host: Siddhartha Ahluwalia

Guest: Sudheesh Nair

Topics covered

• internet growth
• AI agents
• business scaling
• entrepreneurship
• technology evolution

Keywords

• internet
• AI agents
• business growth
• Nutanix
• Thoughtspot
• entrepreneurship
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Thoughtspot, Nutanix, Tinyfish

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