Know the Deal. Episode 5

Amit Pradhan is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and technologist with more than 25 years at the frontier of deep tech, and he argues that most builders skip the one question that actually matters: not what they're building, but who it's for. He is the Founder and CEO of Rainfall, building infrastructure for a more self-sovereign future for AI, and the founder of JetVentures, investing in entrepreneurs working at the edges of emerging technology. He also serves on the board of the Norwegian Refugee Council and the BMW Global Mobility Council, as President of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society, and as a Responsible Leader with the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. Amit joins Katya Fisher and John Lindsey to talk about the incentives quietly running the tech and venture world, from the convenience economy that got everyone to hand over their data, to the agentic AI now living inside people's homes with access to more than it needs. They get into why data has become more valuable, and more dangerous, than oil, why real cultural change comes from heroes rather than committees, and where he lands, somewhere between optimism and alarm, on what comes next.