Building AI-Native Engineering Teams with Ethos CTO Dan Mankowitz

​'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more.

​For this session, we’re joined Dan Mankowitz, cofounder and CTO of Ethos AI, who recently announced their Series A led by a16z. Ethos is among the most AI-native companies to emerge in the last few years, and we'll be discussing:

• ​Building AI-first engineering teams: recruiting, interviews

• ​Product development lifecycle using coding agents

• ​How Ethos' platform was built, including voice agents

​Expect a deep discussion with fellow builders.

​Agenda:

​Arrivals: 08:30–09:00
Roundtable discussion: 09:00–10:00

​See past roundtables here:
https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables

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