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Jesse Zhang

Decagon co-founder and CEO

Every podcast episode featuring Jesse Zhang that Attunex has found: 27 interviews and appearances across 22 shows between 2024 and 2026. Most often on TBPN (2), The Information's TITV (2) and Founders in Arms (2). Often in conversation with Elad Gil. Follow Jesse in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. $100M Backed AI AgentㅣDecagon, Jesse Zhang | EO
    EO

    $100M Backed AI AgentㅣDecagon, Jesse Zhang [EO's Partner Highlight] Click to access the free resource A Comprehensive Guide to Startup Fundraising 👉 here: https://clickhubspot.com/utfa Meet Jesse…

    2026-10-11
  2. Inside the AI Startup Making Customer Support 65% Cheaper
    Grit

    How do you keep up when you go from 50 to 500 employees in a year? Jesse Zhang shares how Decagon scaled that quickly, from hiring ahead of demand to keeping the company connected as the team grows.…

    2026-09-21
  3. Snap Launches Specs, Paramount Eyes Nashville, Japan's Monks Turn to Investing, New Clip from 'The Social Reckoning' | Aaref Hilaly, David Gross, Max Junestrand, Chase Lochmiller, Jesse Zhang, Nilam Ganenthiran & Leonard Tang, Joe Weisenthal
    TBPN

    (02:34) - Snap officially launches Specs (27:18) - Paramount scouts offices in Nashville (30:25) - Reacting to new clip from 'The Social Reckoning' (41:00) - Japan’s monks turn to investing (55:51) -…

    2026-09-17
  4. How Enterprise AI Really Gets Deployed
    The a16z Show

    Sarah Wang and Kimberly Tan are joined by Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas, co-founders of Decagon, to discuss the evolution of enterprise AI agents, why the company increasingly relies on…

    2026-07-31
  5. a16z Podcast: Decagon’s Enterprise AI Playbook for Control, Speed, and Trust
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    Enterprise AI is less about flashy intelligence and more about control, latency, and trust. In this condensed recap of the a16z Podcast episode with Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas, Decagon’s…

    2026-07-31
  6. TITV One Year Anniversary Show
    The Information's TITV

    The Information is celebrating TITV’s one year anniversary today! Join us for this special moment, hosted at our San Francisco newsroom. Kicking us off, Vercel’s COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser and Theory…

    2026-07-14
  7. #265 Jesse Zhang: Decagon's CEO on Maths Olympiads, No Small Talk & Transforming Airlines, Banks, Large Corporates
    The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

    Jesse Zhang is the Co-founder & CEO of Decagon, one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies. In just two and a half years, Decagon has grown to around 500 employees, raised approximately US$500…

    2026-07-14
  8. Ep#84: Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons
    RoboPapers

    Learning robust, general-purpose reward functions for robotics unlocks many potential applications, like on-robot reinforcement learning or dataset validation. However, there’s a question of how to…

    2026-06-02
  9. Behind the curtain of a $4.5b AI-native powerhouse
    Knuckle Up with NakulMentioned

    Ashwin Sreenivas spent his childhood in India waking up at 5am and studying until 8:30 at night. History, geography, physics, chemistry, math. Every day, from 4th grade through 12th grade, through…

    2026-05-19
  10. Decagon’s Jesse Zhang: Closing Customer Service Doom Loops With AI Concierges
    The Upstarts Podcast

    When it comes to calling customer support, startup CEO Jesse Zhang knows your pain. ”It's just a very frustrating experience, because you're stuck in a loop,” he says. In 2023, he and co-founder…

    2026-04-10
  11. The Startup That Crashed Its Own Servers Because of Open Claw
    Newcomer Pod

    VCs surveyed across the industry ranked their most exciting enterprise tech companies and the #1 early stage pick was a name almost nobody had heard of. Eric sits down with Han Wang, CEO of Mintlify,…

    2026-03-31
  12. First Block: Interview with Jesse Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO of Decagon
    Notion Podcast

    Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of their startup journey—and what they learned from that…

    2025-11-18
  13. From Zero to Eight Figures in 18 Months: Decagon CEO’s Playbook for AI-Native SaaS Growth. And Why They Partnered With Accel
    The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

    A SaaStr Annual + AI Summit conversation with Jesse Zhang, CEO of Decagon, and Sarah Ittelson, Partner at Accel Decagon Today: The Numbers Behind the Hype Founded in late 2023—just months after…

    2025-10-28
  14. Jesse Zhang - Building Decagon
    Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

    My guest today is Jesse Zhang. Jesse is the co-founder and CEO of Decagon, one of the fastest-growing AI customer service companies. Decagon provides a centralized AI engine to auto-resolve issues at…

    2025-10-06
  15. Building an AI Business Beyond the Hype with Jesse Zhang from Decagon
    Founders in Arms

    How do you build a sustainable AI business when investors are throwing money at anything with "AI" in the pitch deck? We're bringing back one of our best episodes featuring Jesse Zhang (Decagon AI…

    2025-09-19
  16. 20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Jesse Zhang is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Decagon, the conversational AI platform for customer experience. As one of the fastest growing companies in the valley, they have raised over $230M at a last…

    2025-09-19
  17. AI Agents Talking to AI Agents: Reinventing Commerce with Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang
    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

    The traditional call center may soon be a thing of the past. Jessie Zhang is building AI agents designed to replace monotonous human labor and transform how consumers interact with brands. Elad Gil…

    2025-09-18
  18. $1.5B AI Founder: This Is Your Golden Age to Build With AI | Jesse Zhang, CEO Decagon
    Silicon Valley Girl

    What will happen to jobs in the age of AI? Jesse Zhang, co-founder of $1.5B startup Decagon, joins me to talk about how AI agents are changing the future of work. We dive into which roles are…

    2025-09-15
  19. a16z Invested; $231M Raised Sub 2-years; Decagon's Founder, Jesse Zhang & Amex Ventures's Managing Director, Kevin Weber; Building & Funding Unicorns
    The Founder Initiative

    How to build a unicorn in under 2-years? Not exactly a step-by-step playbook, but you will learn something from a founder who actually did it! You will also hear a VC's perspective from Kevin Weber,…

    2025-09-09
  20. Meet The 27-Year-Old Building $1.5B AI Employees (Decagon CEO)
    Topline

    Jesse Zhang is the CEO of Decagon, the $1.5B startup creating AI agents to transform customer service. Jesse talks to us about the future of AI agents, the limits of automation, and the AI startup…

    2025-09-07
  21. Why Sequoia's China Spinoff is Struggling, Plus Apple's AI M&A Strategy | Aug 26, 2025
    The Information's TITV

    The Information's Jing Yang joins TITV host Akash Pasricha to discuss the future of Sequoia China's spinoff, Hongshan, and its slow deployment of a $9 billion war chest. We also talk with Aaron…

    2025-08-26
  22. Jesse Zhang On Raising $231 Million To Build A Conversational AI Platform That Empowers Enterprises To Provide An AI-Driven Concierge Customer Experience
    DealMakers

    In the fast-paced world of startups, Jesse Zhang stands out as a thoughtful builder who has learned from experience and applied it repeatedly. A repeat founder, he has navigated the messy early days…

    2025-06-24
  23. Tesla Robotaxis Go Live, OpenAI Pulls Jony Ive Promotional Materials, Iran Updates | Yacine, Farzad Mesbahi, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Jon Chu, Eric Romo & Thomas Mueller, Derek Thompson, Alex Robinson, Jesse Zhang
    TBPN

    (01:33) - Live From the backseat of a robotaxi w/ Farzad Mesbahi (07:58) - Timeline (10:53) - Telsa rolls out Robotaxis in Texas (16:30) - Iran launches attacks on U.S. base in Qatar (20:27) - OpenAI…

    2025-06-23
  24. Building an AI Business Beyond the Hype with Jesse Zhang from Decagon
    Founders in Arms

    How do you build a sustainable AI business when investors are throwing money at anything with "AI" in the pitch deck? This episode brings together Jesse Zhang (Decagon AI CEO), Immad Akhund (Mercury…

    2025-02-28
  25. Why Your Customer Support Tools Won't Cut It in the AI Era with Jesse Zhang, CEO of Decagon
    Barrchives

    This episode consists of the following chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to Jesse Zhang and Decagon 02:33 - Why customer support emerged as a clear use case for AI 05:00 - The importance of discovery…

    2025-02-26
  26. How Decagon Dominated the B2B Agentic AI Market in Just Two Years
    Spotlight On

    How do you win in a market where everyone’s building at the same time? According to Decagon Co-founder and CEO Jesse Zhang , it’s all about focus and pace. We’re willing to take his word for it: in…

    2025-02-25
  27. How AI Agents Are Transforming Customer Support, with Decagon’s Jesse Zhang
    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

    Today on No Priors, co-founder and CEO of Decagon, Jesse Zhang, joins Elad to discuss the future of agentic customer support. Decagon provides AI-powered customer interactions for companies like…

    2025-01-16
  28. Best of the Year: Building AI Companies
    AI + a16z

    A 2024 highlight reel, featuring founders sharing their insights, advice, and experiences building AI companies — from foundation-model labs to vertical applications. Topics include: Building AI…

    2024-12-27
  29. Can AI Agents Finally Fix Customer Support?
    AI + a16z

    In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Decagon cofounder/CEO Jesse Zhang and a16z partner Kimberly Tan discuss how LLMs are reshaping customer support, the strong market demand for AI agents, and…

    2024-12-18