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EP 69: "You Don't Build a Power Plant to Charge Phones" — Why Enterprise AI Should Start Big | Nikunj Bajaj, TrueFoundry
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This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Nikunj Bajaj — co-founder & CEO of TrueFoundry and former AI team lead at Meta — about his contrarian message for enterprises: stop starting small with AI, and go big. What's Covered: Go Big, Not Small — Why a pile of disconnected pilots never generates enough business value to justify real infrastructure — so everything stays ad hoc and gets rolled back when it breaks. Nikunj's case for building one high-value anchor use case first. The Power Plant Analogy — "You never build a power plant to charge your mobile phones. You build a power plant to run a factory — and then all the…