# Interview #89 TVN Reddy, CEO of Aptean

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Podcast: [The Artificial Intelligence Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-artificial-intelligence-podcast-3635848)
Published: 2026-06-08T12:23:08+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/episodes/Interview-89-TVN-Reddy--CEO-of-Aptean-e3kf7ir
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## Resource

TVN Reddy, CEO of Aptean, breaks down why the entire software industry is selling "bigger is better" AI while the real goal is the opposite: people spending 80% less time in systems and more time doing the work that actually drives the business. He explains why general purpose models hand every competitor the same 95% while the deep vertical 5% drives the outsized gains, why enterprise AI is unusable past roughly a half percent error rate, and why validation agents beat the instinct to hire three people to check the AI's work. TVN also digs into the quiet security crisis of employees pasting P&Ls and proprietary recipes into public LLMs that never had training turned off, and why agents bolted onto generic models won't scale without truly vertical models underneath. Finally, he shares why the winners won't be the companies with the hottest models but the ones with the courage to re-engineer their processes, because every big technology removes old constraints only to create new ones.

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