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AI After Dark is a podcast hosted by Alex Gras, venture capitalist at Mercury, focused on how real companies are built once the hype fades and the hard decisions begin. Through candid conversations with founders, CTOs, and operators, the show cuts through buzzwords to talk about people, systems, risk, and the trade-offs that actually matter. Alex brings a background as an operator, founder, and revenue leader, with a belief that technology matters, but people come first. This podcast is for builders who care less about trends and more about what lasts.2025 Digital Wildcatters, Inc Economie
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  • What an Ex-Palantir Executive Learned Selling Terrorist-Hunting Software to Oil Companies

    What an Ex-Palantir Executive Learned Selling Terrorist-Hunting Software to Oil Companies
    Oct 20 2026

    Lila (Ontiveros) Flores spent nearly six years helping grow Palantir’s commercial business from a dozen US customers to 615, and now she’s a board member at Woodforest National Bank, fielding calls all day and finally driving her daughter to school. Alex and Lila trace her path from the Goldman trading floor to a presidential campaign to Palantir, talk grit in the next generation, why smart people still avoid AI, and how a fix for airline plane swaps ended up running hospital beds in Covid.

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    0:00:00 Life after Palantir
    0:02:14 Bank boards and a nonlinear career
    0:06:03 Exeter, Cornell and Goldman
    0:08:58 A presidential campaign as a startup
    0:11:10 Coming home to Houston
    0:13:58 Grit and the next generation
    0:20:05 AI sprawl and who needs to be in the room
    0:22:39 DOGE and government getting a UI upgrade
    0:27:16 Smart people who don't use AI
    0:30:43 Building Palantir's commercial business
    0:35:37 What Palantir actually does
    0:40:28 Go to market with no sales team
    0:45:40 From plane swaps to hospital beds
    0:49:30 What she does all day now
    0:56:53 Surfing the AI tidal wave
    1:00:15 Regulation and suing the Army
    1:03:05 Trust and slowing down

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    1 h et 5 min
  • "You Completely Automated My Job." Now What?

    "You Completely Automated My Job." Now What?
    Sep 10 2026

    Margaritas and a little league draft app somehow turned into a business. Zach Smith left Uber, bought a small dental benefits company, and now runs Houston AI Help, embedding with small and mid sized firms around town to build the stuff they did not know they could have. He gets into quick wins over month long discovery, why he will not rip out the software that runs your company, running his whole day through agents, and the moment his wife realized he had automated her job.

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    0:00 How legacy industries actually adopt AI
    1:15 Margaritas, little league, and starting Houston AI Help
    3:49 Two hour whiteboard beats a month of discovery
    7:34 Six hours versus six months on the first quick win
    11:52 What Zach will not build for you
    15:37 Running an entire business on agents
    19:33 Uber data lessons and permanent corporate memory
    23:42 Going to market without cold calling mom and pops
    28:41 The wife who got her job automated
    32:24 Bay Area bubble versus everybody else
    36:08 Why he is not raising venture money
    39:25 Disposable software that still pays off
    45:05 Zooming out on the weekly report
    48:14 Getting AI to grill you instead
    49:47 What year two might look like

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  • We Want Everyone Using AI. Then We Judge Them for It

    We Want Everyone Using AI. Then We Judge Them for It
    Aug 18 2026

    Front porches became phone lines, phone lines became chat rooms, and now the whole conversation is a thumbs up emoji. That is the thread Prasanth Chilukuri, Founder and Managing Partner of Soul Street Ventures, pulls on here, from running the same health question through four different AI models to treating one as his chief strategist to the thing that actually keeps him up at night, which is what happens to his kids when the center keeps moving and nobody can say where it should land.

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    0:00:00 London, kids, and escaping the Houston summer
    0:01:50 Building an AI tutor for a third grader
    0:03:15 Why AI projects never actually get finished
    0:07:00 Soul Street Ventures and portfolio companies figuring out AI
    0:08:15 Taking health into his own hands
    0:14:20 Trust but verify across four models
    0:15:45 AI as chief strategist
    0:18:00 Everybody's board deck is AI generated now
    0:20:45 Starlink on planes and not reading anymore
    0:24:35 Turning 41 and thinking is working
    0:27:15 Front porches to phone lines to emojis
    0:29:35 Brown water and the AI filter
    0:33:00 What happens to human connection
    0:36:15 Singularity, Elon, and the abundance case
    0:43:25 Travel when everywhere has evolved with you
    0:48:30 Vibe coding and building from nothing
    0:50:10 Your AI will never disappoint you
    0:53:57 The salt shaker and moving the center
    0:59:07 School has not changed and neither has the path
    1:04:55 The greatest sci fi story is the one we are in

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