The Index Podcast

Bootstrapped to 320K Users, ZERO Funding: Agnese Jaunošāne (COO & Co-Founder, Ajelix) on Open-Source AI's Power Move

August 25, 2026·38 min
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She turned "everyone hates spreadsheets" into a 320,000-user, 150-country AI company, without taking a single dollar of outside funding. Agnese Jaunošāne, COO & Co-Founder of Ajelix, sits down to break down why she and her co-founder said no to VC money, bet big on open-source AI, and are now building their own hardware to own their entire intelligence stack. If you care about who actually controls AI, and why that question matters as much as any Web3 debate, this one's for you. What we g...

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