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What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO) Jul 24, 2025 · 43 mentions

• ▶ 0:23 Brett Berson He's the founder and CEO of Braintrust, an end-to-end platform for building AI apps. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 8:05 Ankur Goyal I think it's human nature when it's six PM on a Friday and a user is like, Hey, I think, um, I, I think this button, like I had to click it twice instead of once to actually, um, you know, close this window or, um, I, I got like, I ran…
• ▶ 12:05 Ankur Goyal Implemented really early at Braintrust, but I think it's actually important to have a rigorous and challenging interview, even for people that you know are good. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 14:25 Ankur Goyal Um, and this time while starting brain trust, I had zero days off between my previous job and, and brain trust. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 20:07 Brett Berson How does this ladder into what ended up becoming brain trust? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 26:49 Brett Berson As you were explaining the first couple months of, of working on what then became brain trust, one of the interesting things is it sounds like you were default skeptical. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:24 Brett Berson What has building brain trust thus far taught you about what makes a good market? 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:03 Ankur Goyal A lot of people will read a blog post that Simon and I wrote about how notion uses brain trust.
• ▶ 34:28 Brett Berson You talked about this kind of janky prototype you built before you fully committed to brain trust.
• ▶ 36:43 Ankur Goyal Very little interesting technology, and I remember talking to, I won't name any names, but, um, VCs and stuff, and they're like, hey, you know, what are you building here that's durable, and what, you know, what, what are you building,… 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 42:48 Ankur Goyal And so a very simple framework is that at BrainTrust, we roughly build the same set of solutions to the same set of problems that we previously experienced at Impera and people still experience today. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 49:44 Ankur Goyal Braintrust now has like amazing support for Azure. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 51:29 Ankur Goyal Um, I feel very grateful that people talk about the company that way and they, they do that. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 55:12 Ankur Goyal And I can tell them what I don't think the risks are. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:00:31 Brett Berson Like what, what's your own process for figuring out what is going to be encoded in brain trust versus what sort of optional or what you're going to do in your own time.
• ▶ 1:03:55 Ankur Goyal At Braintrust, people, we can't stop people from using the product, and I almost find that annoying sometimes, like, 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:05:17 Ankur Goyal Honestly, I think there's two people I'd point to, um, and these were the first two people that invested in BrainTrust and really helped us. 2 times in the scene