Ignite Startups: Building AI That Runs Marketing for B2B Startups with Harsha Vankayalapati | Ep238

Episode notes

Most founders think they have a product problem.What they usually have is a distribution problem wearing a clever disguise. This episode of the Ignite Podcast with Harsha Vankayalapati , co-founder and CEO of AgentWeb , is a deep dive into that uncomfortable truth, and what happens when AI agents start taking over the most painful part of building a startup, go-to-market execution. Harsha’s path here matters. He’s a former Microsoft engineer, a two-time YC founder, and someone who has felt, repeatedly, the frustration of building solid technology only to watch growth stall because GTM was messy, manual, and unforgiving. AgentWeb is the product of that scar tissue. The real bottleneck no one wants to own Harsha makes a sharp claim early in the conversation, most startup failures aren’t caused by bad ideas or weak engineering. They’re caused by execution breakdowns in go-to-market.