WFTD: From $100B AI Systems → Building AI Agents - What Founders Need to Know

​📍 Venture Dock — Palo Alto
🗓 Wednesday, May 6th
🕙 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

​About the Session

​Most founders are building AI features.
Very few understand how AI actually drives products, revenue, and entire companies.

​This week at Work From the Dock, we’re hosting a rare session with
Dinkar Jain-Founder & CEO of csquared labs, building AI agents backed by one of the largest pre-seed rounds of 2025.

​Before this, he:

• ​Led AI, Marketplace, and Ads at Uber (driving ~70% of company outcomes)

• ​Led Ads AI systems at Meta, contributing to growth from $20B → $100B+ revenue

​Now, he’s back to building-applying those lessons to the next wave of AI companies.

​Join us for a deep, candid conversation on what actually works — from hyperscale systems to early-stage AI startups.

​What We’ll Cover

• ​How AI actually drives revenue, pricing, and growth at scale

• ​The shift from Big Tech → building an AI startup

• ​What founders get wrong about AI and AI agents

• ​How to think about data, network effects, and compounding advantage

• ​What matters when building AI products from day one

​About the Speaker

​Dinkar Jain

• ​Founder & CEO, csquared labs (AI agents; top-tier VC-backed)

• ​Former VP Product (AI, Marketplace & Ads), Uber

• ​Former Head of Ads AI, Meta

• ​Former product roles at Google, Twitter, and Amazon

​Why Founders Should Come

• ​You’re building anything with AI, data, or marketplaces

• ​You want to understand how real systems (not demos) create revenue

• ​You’re thinking about AI agents or next-gen products

• ​You want direct access to someone who has built at scale and is now building again

​Agenda

​☕ 10:00 – 11:00 AM — Arrivals, coffee, work from the space
🎙 11:00 – 12:00 PM — Session + live Q&A
🚀 12:00 – 1:00 PM — Founder discussion + open mic + networking

​Want More Than Just One Session?

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• ​Access to private sessions and investor roundtables

• ​Weekly high-signal programming

• ​Direct access to the community inside and outside events

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