Building in the Age of AI: A Founder's Panel
Hosted by DECODE
Thursday, September 24, 2026
4:00 PM–5:00 PM ET
About
AI has made it easier than ever to build. Has it made it easier to actually found a company?
This panel brings together three people seeing that question from different sides. Rob Blaine, Co-Founder of TNT, has watched hundreds of student founders come through his community at MIT and Harvard. Artem Lukoianov left research at Google DeepMind and Meta to co-found Autolab while finishing his PhD at MIT CSAIL. Brian Devaney is a Partner at Underscore VC, where he backs early-stage founders bringing AI to legacy industries.
We'll get into what a moat even means when everyone has the same tools, whether AI is closing or widening the gap between technical and non-technical builders, and the parts of building a company that don't show up on LinkedIn.
Join us for a conversation on what it actually takes to build, instead of defaulting into, a company today. Hosted in partnership with Underscore VC.
Speakers
- Rob Blaine, Artem Lukoianov, Brian Devaney
Host
DECODE