Sai Prakash

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CTO and Co-Founder, MindStaq | AI and Enterprise Systems | Studying AI Since 1996

Sai Prakash is the CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, an AI-native work management platform built to unify scattered tools and give teams a system that actually knows their work.

He has spent more than 25 years in technology and product leadership, building and scaling platforms at the intersection of enterprise systems, AI, and user-centric design. He spent six years at Microsoft and held roles at Thomson Reuters and Agility.

He holds a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, where he studied artificial intelligence in 1996, during the years the field had gone quiet. He later completed entrepreneurship study at The Wharton School.

On the show, Sai brings the long view. He was inside this technology three decades before it became fashionable, which makes him unusually useful at separating what is real from what is being sold.

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Sept. 29, 2026

He Studied AI in 1996: What Non-Technical Leaders Get Wrong About What AI Can Do

What does someone who was studying artificial intelligence in 1996 see that the rest of us are missing? Meet Sai Prakash, CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, six years at Microsoft, and a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. Host Ralph E. Owens II and co-host Terry Baylor open a series of conversations with him here, starting with his story. It begins in a small, free university in India, in an AI lab that existed only because a gr...
Guest: Sai Prakash