In this podcast, Stan Polu, the founder of Dust, shares his journey from working at Stripe and OpenAI to creating Dust, a platform that helps companies integrate AI agents into their teams. He reflects on his time at OpenAI, where he focused on math and AI under the guidance of Ilya Sutskever, emphasizing the critical role of scaling compute resources. Stan highlights Dust's mission to develop user-friendly infrastructure for agent development, prioritizing simplicity and seamless integration over complex, fully autonomous systems. The conversation also explores the challenges of building and maintaining integrations, the rapidly changing landscape of large language models, and the transformative potential of AI in reshaping business operations and growth.