AI is speeding up everything, but the real question is what leaders and teams should do with that speed.
Kayleigh Bateman sits down with Asha Kalidindi, Co-founder of Aggne and Flarre.AI, to unpack the jump from building a small, scrappy tech team to scaling a global business and then returning to startup mode with an agentic AI platform. Along the way, we get candid about the unglamorous parts of entrepreneurship: uncertainty, constant recalibration, and the discipline it takes to keep delivering real customer value as you grow.
Asha shares hard-won leadership lessons on why you can’t fall in love with your idea, how to validate product-market fit early, and what changes when you go from the first 20 to 30 people to hundreds. We also dig into the scaling problem: putting process and senior leadership in place without losing the nimble “startup at heart” culture that made the company work in the first place.
The conversation turns practical for anyone thinking about AI career growth. We explore why agentic AI is as much a mindset as a technical skill, how AI tools shrink work cycles from hours to minutes, and how professionals can stay valuable by expanding into broader skills and stronger domain expertise. Asha also points to emerging roles like forward deployed engineer and explains why business outcomes now matter more than coding in a single language.
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