Скачать или смотреть The Uncommon Path: Ankur Goyal on Building Braintrust and Helping AI Teams “Study the Tape”

Ankur Goyal founded Braintrust after seeing firsthand—at Impira and later at Figma—how hard it is to reliably improve AI features without clear visibility into what’s working (and what’s breaking) in production. In this episode of The Uncommon Path, ICONIQ Partner Matthew Jacobson sits down with Ankur to explore the early customer pull behind Braintrust, why the team stayed focused on real usage over “paid = PMF,” and the technical bets required to support AI observability at scale.

Ankur also shares how Braintrust stays relentlessly close to customers while growing past 100 employees, and why the company thinks of its product like a film room for LLM apps, helping teams study the tape, iterate faster, and build with confidence.

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Key moments:
00:00:35 Founding Braintrust
00:03:34 Product-market fit in AI
00:05:38 Customer obsession in developer tools
00:10:11 Building scalable AI infrastructure
00:13:30 UX and iteration in AI products
00:16:49 Scaling culture in a fast-growing startup
00:22:55 The future of AI development
00:26:31 The “film room” mindset