The Night We Launched Chakra

Vivek Ravisankar builds an interviewer on stage, sits the interview himself, and reads his own report in front of the room. Moderate fit. Here’s the full launch.

The launch is also the fullest statement of how the company thinks. Vivek Ravisankar lays a thousand year arc of portable music across a table, flute to radio to Walkman to phone, and uses it to argue that hiring’s methods keep changing while the need underneath them does not. He then commits in public to four rules for building on AI: no customer data in training, bias audits, a human who can override any evaluation, and always saying why the model called it that way. The naming story and the panel are in here too.