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Braintrust's Ankur Goyal on Why Evals Are the Core of AI Development
Greylock· 2026-02-24 17:26
Today's conversation is with Anker Gual, the founder and CEO of Brain Trust. Anker is a repeat founder who started working in AI long before the debut of Chat GPT. He previously founded Impira, which was acquired by Figma, where he went on to lead the AI team.Now with Brain Trust, he's helping developers build AI that actually works. In our discussion, we cover why eval are core AI development, why taste matters in product development, what a culture of customer obsession looks like, and his approach to sca ...