What if the terms everyone is obsessing over in AI are the exact reason your startup is missing the big picture?

In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Farshid Sabet pulls back the curtain on building AI companies the right way, drawing on a career spanning SanDisk, Micron, Movidius, and Aptina before founding Corvic in the B2B enterprise space.

He dismantles the hype cycles that have distracted founders since 2022, from building your own models to chasing specific GPUs to fixating on prompting, RAG, context, and now agentics. You will learn how to tell a genuine productivity gain from noise, why autonomous agents matter without deserving every buzzword thrown at them, and how to keep your eyes on business fundamentals while the market chases trends.

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Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:10 - The Biggest Learning Moment 2:07 - Hype Cycles in AI 3:07 - The Agentic AI Shift 4:50 - The Real Big Picture 6:17 - The Hardest Nos to Make 9:58 - Where Discipline Comes From 11:51 - Hiring the Right Team 14:19 - The Biggest Scaling Mistake 15:51 - A Book Every Founder Needs 17:39 - Wrap Up

Book recommendation: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

About Farshid Sabet: Farshid Sabet is the founder of Corvic, an AI company focused on the B2B enterprise space, where he helps large organizations across healthcare, banking, retail, and industrial sectors put AI to work. His career spans hardware, software, and AI at companies including SanDisk, Micron, Aptina, and Movidius, where he worked alongside industry leaders like Sanjay Mehrotra and Dr. Eli Harari. He builds with a bias toward business fundamentals over hype, prioritizing scalable products and the discipline to say no when short term wins threaten long term goals.

Follow Farshid Sabet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farshid-sabet-298526/

Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7lVmRN1rL8I

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