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#190 | Curiosity in the Age of AI Humility, Digital Twins, and Why the Smartest Person in the Room Stops Learning w Ashutosh Garg
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▶︎ #190 | Curiosity in the Age of AI: Humility, Digital Twins, and Why the Smartest Person in the Room Stops Learning w/ Ashutosh Garg (Co-Founder & CEO, @Eightfold AI & @Viven, ex-@Google, ex-@IBM)
In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex welcomes Ashutosh Garg: Co-Founder and CEO of Eightfold AI and Viven, a third-time founder (after Bloomreach and Eightfold) who spent his early career as a research scientist at IBM and Google before building a career predicting where technology is headed next. Recording the conversation in the middle of 2026, Ashutosh reflects on three decades inside machine learning and AI, from hand-built models in the 1990s to a field that now reshapes itself within weeks, not years.
What makes this conversation stand out is how Ashutosh reframes the pressure so many tech leaders feel to know everything, all the time. He argues that too much information can be as damaging as too little, that curiosity means seeking answers from the least obvious places rather than only from people who already agree with you.
The second half of the conversation turns practical: Ashutosh unpacks Viven, the digital twin platform he co-founded to solve a problem every scaling leader recognizes {being one person with the knowledge of ten}. From reducing bottlenecks with subject-matter experts to making founders and managers accessible to their teams around the clock, he makes the case that digital twins are not about replacing people, but about closing the coordination gap between them.
If you are a leader trying to stay curious without burning out, or wondering how AI-native tools might change what "being available" to your team even means, this episode will give you a lot to sit with.
✉︎ FOLLOW ASHUTOSH ON: ⤵︎
LinkedIn: ashutoshgarg893
Eightfold AI: eightfold.ai
https://viven.ai/
✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎
LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska
TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska
X: @lemanskills
Get the Book! https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/
Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp
www.lemanskills.com
Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/
In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Alex welcomes Ashutosh Garg: Co-Founder and CEO of Eightfold AI and Viven, a third-time founder (after Bloomreach and Eightfold) who spent his early career as a research scientist at IBM and Google before building a career predicting where technology is headed next. Recording the conversation in the middle of 2026, Ashutosh reflects on three decades inside machine learning and AI, from hand-built models in the 1990s to a field that now reshapes itself within weeks, not years.
What makes this conversation stand out is how Ashutosh reframes the pressure so many tech leaders feel to know everything, all the time. He argues that too much information can be as damaging as too little, that curiosity means seeking answers from the least obvious places rather than only from people who already agree with you.
The second half of the conversation turns practical: Ashutosh unpacks Viven, the digital twin platform he co-founded to solve a problem every scaling leader recognizes {being one person with the knowledge of ten}. From reducing bottlenecks with subject-matter experts to making founders and managers accessible to their teams around the clock, he makes the case that digital twins are not about replacing people, but about closing the coordination gap between them.
If you are a leader trying to stay curious without burning out, or wondering how AI-native tools might change what "being available" to your team even means, this episode will give you a lot to sit with.
✉︎ FOLLOW ASHUTOSH ON: ⤵︎
LinkedIn: ashutoshgarg893
Eightfold AI: eightfold.ai
https://viven.ai/
✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎
LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska
TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska
X: @lemanskills
Get the Book! https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/
Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp
www.lemanskills.com
Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/