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Rahul Sonwalkar

Founder & CEO, Julius AI

Search every verified Rahul Sonwalkar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Rahul Sonwalkar, founder and CEO of Julius AI, appeared on the Debater Center podcast on May 15, 2026, where he discussed topics including AI interaction trends, investor behavior, and the luxury watch market. During the episode, he expressed mixed views on the shift toward voice-based AI interaction, noting that while it could increase accountability in office settings, he would feel embarrassed if his own prompts were publicly read. He also commented on investor due diligence, observing that while good investors still conduct thorough research, the relationships between companies like Nvidia and AI startups can blur the lines of independence. Sonwalkar participated in the podcast's broader discussions on current events, including a segment about a 67-year-old founder and commentary on Patek Philippe's distribution strategy. His remarks on the watchmaker's approach to the Indian market and tourist sales were part of the episode's timeline reactions segment. The appearance was his only listed public engagement in the provided material.

Recent appearances

  • Debater Center, Figma's Not Dead, 67 Year Old Founder, AI Monet Paintings

    May 15, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:04:25 𝕏 Timeline Reactions w/ Rahul Sonwalkar, founder and CEO of Julius AI, a startup building AI-powered tools for data analysis and quantitative reasoning. The company focuses on making it easier for users to analyze spreadsheets, generate visualizations, and interact with data using natural language. 00:05:16 Dine with Warren Buffet for $9M 00:09:41 Typing Loses Ground to Whispering 00:20:06 AI Monet Paintings 00:32:18 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 00:55:08 Patek Chooses Scarcity Over Scale 01:02:58 WSJ Mansion Section 01:25:07 67 Year Old Founder 01:31:46 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 01:38:29 SpaceX Sp…

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  • He Quit Uber, Beat ChatGPT At Harvard, And Went Solo Building AI | Rahul Sonwalkar

    April 15, 2026 · 📺 Solo Founders

    Rahul Sonwalkar is the solo founder of Julius AI — the AI data analyst that Harvard Business School benchmarked head-to-head against ChatGPT and picked for its required "Data Science and AI for Leaders" MBA course. All 935 first-year HBS students now use it. Julius has over 2 million users and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners. Rahul built it alone, after six pivots. His path wasn't linear — the pivots included a cease-and-desist from Microsoft for naming a product "Excel Copilot" and a year of Covid-era mobile apps built on the side of his Uber engineering job. In this conversation, Rah…

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  • Built to Share: 2M Users in 18 Months | Julius AI, Rahul Sonwalkar

    July 03, 2025 · 📺 EO

    This episode features Rahul Sonwalkar, founder and CEO of Julius AI – the leading AI data analysis platform. Since launching in 2023, Julius AI has helped users create over 10 million data visualizations. Every day, Julius AI generates more than 4 million lines of analysis code – far more than any team of human data scientists could produce. In just 18 months, Julius AI has grown to over 2 million users. In this interview, Rahul Sonwalkar shares the 5 essential rules every AI startup should consider. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on a single task, moving fast, and embracing failur…

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  • #21 - Creating An AI Data Scientist | Rahul Sonwalkar, CEO Julius

    April 24, 2025 · 📺 Relentless

    Julius AI: https://julius.ai This is my conversation with Rahul Sonwalkar, founder of Julius AI Julius is an AI data scientist used by millions of people. Timestamps: 0:33 Building his own email service 3:03 Trying to build a social network 4:01 Launching Podcast comments dot com 7:16 Unambitious people & founding Waterview 10:49 Bill Gates & Napoleon 13:42 Truck tracking startup 17:09 Sam Walton 20:00 Early versions of Julius 27:59 Why startups die 33:21 Growing from 5k to 500k users 35:22 Everyone answers support tickets 38:22 Hiring for high-slope 40:22 Asking for what you want

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  • EP 1| How to Discover Your Startup Idea and Scale From 0-1 Million w/ Julius Founder Rahul Sonwalkar

    March 07, 2025 · 📺 Maggie In Data

    If you’re thinking about starting your own business, trying to figure out which idea to put your efforts behind, this episode is a must-listen. Rahul SonWalkar, an ex-software engineer at Meta and Uber, has scaled his tech startup, Julius AI, from 0 to 1 million users within the first year. His work has been so impactful that Harvard Business School now teaches analysis to their MBA students using Julius—an incredible achievement for a company that started from scratch. It’s impressive to see what he’s built in such a short time, especially considering that, at just 24 years old, Rahul walked…

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  • Post-AI Entrepreneurship with Rahul Sonwalkar of Julius AI

    December 13, 2024 · 📺 INDIE

    There’s a section of our website that generates more reaction than any single piece of content I’ve ever written. It says: We’re obsessed with the idea that someone is going to build a business doing $100M in revenue with less than 10 employees and see it as this generation of founders’ 4 min mile. Once someone shows it can be done, many more will follow. We want to partner with the one that does to help define a repeatable playbook for those that follow. Whether the numbers are correct or simply guide posts, it’s undeniable that how and what we build in a post-AI world is changing by the da…

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  • Julius AI ft. Rahul Sonwalkar

    September 16, 2024 · 📺 AI Rebels Podcast

    In this episode of AI Rebels, we sit down with Rahul, the visionary CEO of Julius AI. Rahul takes us on a deep dive into the cutting-edge world of his company's AI technology, sharing fascinating insights on its real-world applications. From groundbreaking use cases to unexpected implementations, we explore how Julius AI is shaping various industries. The conversation then broadens to tackle the wider implications of artificial intelligence, examining current trends and speculating on future developments. Join us for an enlightening discussion that bridges the gap between AI innovation and pra…

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  • Building with AI: Rahul Sonwalkar on Julius

    June 26, 2024 · 📺 Chroma

    Links and Chapters below: Rahul on X (Twitter) - https://x.com/0interestrates Julius - https://julius.ai/ 0:30 - intro 1:37 - get llms to write code 4:56 - tool-use in practice 8:20 - concepting a LLM calendar app 11:09 - building julius 15:32 - on GPT wrappers 19:08 - building things users want 19:55 - how to hack tool use 23:14 - data cleaning as a tool example 26:10 - using telemetry to improve julius 27:37 - monitoring julius: vibes & beyond 29:26 - why you dont need evals (to get started ) 30:50 - when evals matter 32:36 - time to magical moment 36:00 - temperature and determinism 37:…

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  • Simplifying complex data tasks with AI | Rahul “Ligma” Sonwalkar (CEO of Julius.ai)

    June 11, 2024 · 📺 The AI Ready Show

    In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits down with Rahul Sonwalkar, the founder and CEO of Julius.ai, an AI data analyst that helps users analyze datasets, create visualizations, and gain insights from structured data. They discuss Rahul's entrepreneurial journey, including his time at big tech companies like Facebook and Uber, the infamous "Ligma Johnson" prank, and the launch of his own venture. During the conversation, they discuss: The inspiration for creating Julius before the "ChatGPT moment," Julius's rapid growth to 500,000+ users, How to think about competition…

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  • Building Julius AI to 500.000 users w/ Rahul (founder)

    May 11, 2024 · 📺 Aleksa Gordić - The AI Epiphany

    Become a Patreon:   / theaiepiphany   👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Join our Discord community:   / discord   We had Rahul joining in to talk about what they're cooking at Julius AI! You might know Rahul as Rahul Ligma from the now famous twitter take-over prank. We dig into the background story of that event as well and go through his journey from Uber, Facebook to building Julius. Note: this video is not sponsored by Julius AI, I just like what Rahul is doing. :) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Check out Julius AI here: https://julius.ai/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00:00 - 00:00:38 Intro 00:00:38 -…

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  • The AI Data Scientist | Rahul Sonwalkar, Juilius AI

    April 25, 2024 · 📺 The Peel with Turner Novak

    Brought to you by Attio, the next generation of CRM: https://bit.ly/AttioThePeel Rahul Sonwalkar is the founder and CEO of Julius, an AI data scientist. He takes us inside his epic “Ligma Johnson” prank where he pretended to be fired from Twitter the day Elon acquired the company. He then goes inside his journey of building Julius, sharing lessons learned along the way and his vision for the product. Timestamps: (00:00) Preview (04:16) The "Ligma Johnson" prank (09:02) Meeting Elon (13:10) Hackathons in college (14:30) Scraping emails from Hacker News to get internships (16:25) Using Twitte…

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