Coffee with a Founder features unscripted stories with venture backed founders who've raised millions of dollars to challenge, change, and create entire industries. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Emmy award winning host, investor, and PR CEO, Beck Bamberger sips coffee and chats with a venture backed founder about the insanity of startups, the nuances of storytelling in tech, and the compulsion to build something from nothing.
Building an AI Company Before the Boom | Kore.ai Founder Raj Koneru
In this episode of Coffee with a Founder from the BAM Network, we sit down with Raj Koneru, founder and CEO of Kore.ai, to explore what it takes to build a company in an industry that keeps reinventing itself.
Raj shares lessons from more than a decade of building enterprise AI and the experience of launching multiple companies. We discuss how to stay focused as technology shifts, build resilient teams, and compete when the next breakthrough can change the market overnight.
From the early days of conversational AI to a future where he sees AI becoming as essential as oxygen, Raj offers a founder's perspective on knowing when to adapt, where to invest, and what makes a business last.
Grab your coffee, and let's get into it.
29 Sept 2026
How Do You Keep AI Agents Accountable? James Everingham on Building Guild AI
On this episode of Coffee with a Founder, Beck Bamberger sits down with James Everingham, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Guild AI, to talk about what it takes to build for a world of AI agents.
Drawing on decades in tech, including time at Meta, James explains why a strong observation is a better starting point for a company than the desire to start one. He shares how Guild AI is helping enterprises address the less visible challenges of AI agents: tracking their actions, managing costs, and establishing who is accountable when an agent acts.
James also reflects on the cycles of founding companies, what failure can teach you, and why founders need to keep questioning their assumptions as technology changes. It's a candid conversation about building something useful, learning quickly, and finding some joy in the process.
22 Sept 2026
Why AI Still Struggles With Visual Reasoning with Andrew Dai of Elorian AI
In this episode of Coffee With a Founder, host Beck Bamberger sits down with Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian AI, to explore the next frontier of artificial intelligence: visual reasoning.
Drawing on his experience developing language models at DeepMind, Andrew explains why today's AI systems still struggle to understand and reason through visuals the way people do. He shares how board games helped expose this gap, what it takes to build a next-generation multimodal model, and why the accelerating pace of innovation demands more nuanced conversations about AI safety and regulation.
Andrew also discusses the rising standard for technical talent and what founders must do to attract exceptional people in a rapidly evolving industry. Whether you're a founder, AI enthusiast, or future-focused leader, this conversation reveals why the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence may be something that must be seen—not written.
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