{"podcast":{"title":"Training Data","slug":"training-data","podcast_index_feed_id":null,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/trainingdata","website_url":"https://www.sequoiacap.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/8ca8a61c-08b4-11ef-97ab-9fe273d59030/image/4a16fd33b06708003827556209cd42b7.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Sequoia Capital","episode_count":104,"summary":"Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society. The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T15:06:49.231983+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data"},"episode":{"title":"Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent","slug":"block-cto-dhanji-prasanna-building-the-ai-first-enterprise-with-goose-their-open-source-agent","published_at":"2025-09-30T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data/block-cto-dhanji-prasanna-building-the-ai-first-enterprise-with-goose-their-open-source-agent","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI9803179915.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI9803179915.mp3","summary":"As CTO of Block, Dhanji Prasanna has overseen a dramatic enterprise AI transformation, with engineers saving 8-10 hours a week through AI automation. Block’s open-source agent goose connects to existing enterprise tools through MCP, enabling everyone from engineers to sales teams to build custom applications without coding. Dhanji shares how Block reorganized from business unit silos to functional teams to accelerate AI adoption, why they chose to open-source their most valuable AI tool and why he believes swarms of smaller AI models will outperform monolithic LLMs. Hosted by: Sonya Huang and Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital Mentioned in the episode: goose: Block’s open-source, general-purpose AI agent used across the company to orchestrate workflows via tools and APIs. Model Context Protocol (MCP): Open protocol (spearheaded by Anthropic) for connecting AI agents to tools; goose was an early adopter and helped shape. bitchat: Decentralized chat app written by Jack Dorsey Swarm intelligence: Research direction Dhanji highlights for AI’s future where many agents (geese) collaborate to build complex software beyond a single-agent copilot. Travelling Salesman Problem: Classic optimization problem cited by Dhanji in the context of a non-technical user of goose solving a practical optimization task. Amara’s Law: The idea, originated by futurist Roy Amara in 1978, that we overestimate tech impact short term and underestimate long term. 00:00 Introduction 01:48 AI: Friend or Foe? 03:13 Block's Journey with AI and Technology 04:47 Block's Diverse Product Range 07:04 Driving AI at Block 14:28 The Evolution of Goose 27:45 Integrating Goose with Existing Systems 28:23 Goose's Learning and Recipe Feature 29:41 Tool Use and LLM Providers 31:40 Impact of AI on Developer Productivity 34…","meta_description":"As CTO of Block, Dhanji Prasanna has overseen a dramatic enterprise AI transformation, with engineers saving 8-10 hours a week through AI automation. Bloc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3583,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/training-data/episodes/block-cto-dhanji-prasanna-building-the-ai-first-enterprise-with-goose-their-open-source-agent/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data/block-cto-dhanji-prasanna-building-the-ai-first-enterprise-with-goose-their-open-source-agent.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}