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Amit Prakash

Cofounder, ThoughtSpot

Search every verified Amit Prakash interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amit Prakash, cofounder and CTO of ThoughtSpot, discussed the company's mission and approach to data analytics in a 2022 podcast interview. He stated that ThoughtSpot aims to "empower the people who understand the business" to query data using a "Google-like interface" that translates natural language questions into deterministic results. Prakash noted that the company chose the analytics market because it was "ripe for disruption," with many enterprises using solutions built "10–20 years ago." He also discussed the company's partnership with Snowflake and its acquisition of a company called Sequel, which operates in the reverse-ETL space. Prakash addressed the limitations of large language models like GPT for enterprise analytics, arguing that solving business-specific queries requires "structured capture of domain knowledge" rather than general real-world knowledge. He emphasized that only employees within a company understand specific business correlations, and that capturing this knowledge efficiently is key to the product's success. Prakash also credited early investor Lightspeed for their support and advised founders to "spend more time early on to get the problem right" before writing code.

Recent appearances

  • Why You’re Losing 90% of Your Data (And How AI Fixes It) w/ Amit Prakash

    April 02, 2026 · 📺 Joe Reis

    Are traditional CRMs on their way out? In this episode, Amit Prakash (CEO of Ampub and ThoughtSpot co-founder) drops a massive truth bomb: forcing messy, high-dimensional reality into structured tables destroys 90% of your data's value.We dive deep into the looming "SaaS-pocalypse" and why the future of enterprise software belongs to unstructured data. Amit breaks down how AI buying and selling agents will soon handle the tedious "dating dance" of early negotiations. If you're wondering where the actual ROI in AI is hiding, Amit argues that fixing the sales bottleneck is the ultimate unlock…

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  • Amit Prakash, Co-founder, ThoughtSpot

    October 08, 2025 · 📺 AI x Marketing

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  • He Built the Tech Behind Google’s Billions, then ThoughtSpot into $4B Company | Amit Prakash's Story

    October 08, 2025 · 📺 1947 Rise with Shiva Singh Sangwan

    Amit Prakash is Co-founder & CTO of ThoughtSpot, the search-driven analytics company he launched in 2012 with Ajeet Singh. His latest venture is AmpUp an AI agent platform for sales teams that encodes a company’s sales methodology into intelligent agents, surfacing insights and automating workflows. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Before ThoughtSpot, he worked at Microsoft (on search/graph/Rank systems) and Google (on AdSense analytics). Under his leadership, ThoughtSpot has scaled into a unicorn, achieving valuations above $4 billion in late…

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  • What's The Role Of AI in BI?

    May 28, 2024 · 📺 dbt Labs

    Amit Prakash is Co-founder and CTO at ThoughtSpot. He has a deep background in search, having previously led the AdSense engineering team at Google and served on the early Bing team at Microsoft. In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Amit gets real about the promise of AI in data: which applications are being widely used today, and which are still a few years out? For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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  • The Future of Generative AI in Data Analytics w/ Amit Prakash

    September 11, 2023 · 📺 Joe Reis

    Amit Prakash (CTO/Co-Founder of Thoughtspot) joins the show to chat about the future of generative AI in data analytics. Thoughtspot has been a leader in searchable analytics, and it will be interesting to get Amit's take on where the field of analytics is heading next. NOTE - Sorry, we had technical difficulties the first minute of the episode.

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  • The Impact of Generative AI on Business with Amit Prakash, Co-Founder and CTO at ThoughtSpot

    August 01, 2023 · 📺 The Analytics Edge

    This episode features an interview with Amit Prakash, Co-Founder and CTO at ThoughtSpot, a market leading business intelligence platform that helps anyone explore, analyze, and share real time business analytics and data easily with AI powered analytics. Amit has deep experience in building large-scale analytics systems. Prior to ThoughtSpot, Amit led multiple analytics engineering teams in the Google AdSense businesses, contributing $50M+ quarter-on-quarter growth to the business by improving analytical algorithms for AdSense. Previously, Amit was a founding engineer in the Bing team at Micr…

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  • 2022 Hypergrowth Engineering Summit | Measuring Engineering Productivity & Velocity

    July 28, 2022 · 📺 Sapphire Ventures

    Panelists: Rukmini Reddy, SVP of Engineering @ Slack Amit Prakash, CTO & Co-founder @ ThoughtSpot Gil Feig, Founder @ Merge.dev Moderator: Casber Wang, Partner @ Sapphire Ventures As engineering organizations scale, assessing overall performance and health is critical. Particularly at the growth stage, where 2x and 3x annual org increases are not uncommon, engineering leaders can no longer rely on personal relationships and catchups to understand the pulse of their organizations. Increasingly, engineering intelligence metrics such as Flow and DORA play an important role. However not all…

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  • Season 2 | On the DL with Amit Prakash of ThoughtSpot

    April 22, 2022 · 📺 The Robot Brains Podcast

    During "On the DL", Host Pieter Abbeel asks the guest of the week a series of questions unrelated to their professional pursuits. Its a chance to get to know our interviewees a little better! This week's guest is Amit Prakash, Co-Founder and CTO of ThroughtSpot.

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  • Season 2 Ep. 16 Amit Prakash of ThoughtSpot on empowering companies to make data-driven decisions

    April 20, 2022 · 📺 TheRobotBrainsPodcast

    Every business wants to be a data-driven business these days; basing decisions on tangible facts derived from historical precedents and clear-cut numbers. But that’s a lot easier said than done. This episode’s guest, Amit Prakash, is on a mission to change that. Based on his experience working on Microsoft’s Bing and then at Google working on Google Brain, he co-founded Thoughtspot to make querying data as easy as having a simple conversation. Thoughtspot provides artificial intelligence (AI) and search-driven analytics. The Sunnyvale, California-based company reached unicorn status in 2019…

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  • Mr. Amit Prakash | Mr. Vipin Agarwal | Startup Master Class - Fireside Chat

    April 26, 2021 · 📺 Alumni Association IIT Kanpur

    Startup Master Class 2021, the virtual Entrepreneurial Extravaganza of Alumni Association and Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kanpur was graced by yet another exceedingly inspiring pioneer in the field of entrepreneurship - Mr. Amit Prakash, in a fireside cconversation with Mr. Vipin Agarwal. Amit Prakash is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Thoughtspot. He has deep experience in building large scale analytics systems. Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Amit led multiple analytics engineering teams at Google and was a founding engineering in the Bing team at Microsoft. He is an esteemed…

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