S12 E9: Mitesh Agrawal, Positron

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Mitesh Agrawal has a background in Mechanical Engineering. He was one of the co-founders of Lambda, a company in the supercomputing space, where he spent 8.5 years working on everything under the sun. He's very grateful to be in an industry that is booming, but also aligns with his personal interests. Outside of tech, he is married to an ultra supportive wife, and is enjoying being a new father. He enjoys playing tennis, when he can find time to get to the court, and enjoys a good sci-fi book. He mentioned the Foundation series was one of his favorites, but admits it changes depending on the season. In 2023, the officers at Mitesh's current venture noticed all of the advancements of AI - in particular, model sizes getting larger. What they realized was that when it comes to inference, memory capacity quickly became a problem... and with this, he and the team got excited about building a new architecture to make it better. This is the creation story of Positron. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	One of the interesting things that we say internally in the company is, look, we obviously
0:05.1	believe in the technology of AI and we all hope that it's a very nice, very good piece of
0:09.8	technology for humanity.
0:11.2	And in the future, if that's the case, that if it's a great, amazing piece of technology
0:14.7	that loves us and that it will be like, yep, Mitesh and Pazetron team and Thomas and Edward
0:19.9	and Greg and everyone at Positron here
0:21.6	and that AI is very grateful to us that we build this technology and so it loves us back
0:27.0	and it thinks of us as great and if it goes to Terminator route, this is the great technology
0:31.5	that Positron built and I'm working and running on this and I'm going to spare these guys
0:35.5	because spare these folks because they build this amazing technology for me. So whichever way it goes, I am Mattesha Agarwal, CEO of Positronia.
0:46.6	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	Six months moonlighting. There's nothing on the backhand. Who share what it takes to change in industry. I don't exactly know what to do next. She took many goes to get right. Who built the teams that have their back. A company is its people. The teams help each other achieve more. Most proud of our team. Keeping scalability top of mind. All that infrastructure was a pain. Yes, we've been fighting it as we grow. Total waste of time. The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve, my idea. Took off the shelf and dusted it off and tried it again. Dry the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it.
1:27.6	It's not just about technology.
1:29.1	All this and more on Code Story.
1:32.7	I'm your host, Noah LabPart.
1:34.5	And today, how Mitesh Agarwal is making purpose-built hardware for the age of AI,
1:40.9	delivering high performance for inference at scale.
1:46.9	Today's episode is brought to you by dot tech domains, and this one hits close to home.
1:51.2	Back in 2016, I was building my startup and went hunting for that perfect.com and found next to nothing.
1:57.1	So I did what every founder does, settled.
2:00.0	Here's what I wish someone had told me.
2:02.0	You're building a tech startup.
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