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Neil Zeghidour, CEO of Gradium, discusses his transition from scientist to CEO after raising $100 million in seed funding. He explains how coding agents enable technical founders to remain involved in hands-on work while leading their companies, allowing him to work on smaller projects asynchronously without compromising his CEO responsibilities.
CEO · Gradium
Gradium is an AI company working with coding agents.
We did the fundraising. We raised $100 million in seed and I transitioned from scientist to CEO. I really enjoy the transition and I think it's easier now than ever because back then before coding agents uh becoming CEO meant giving up entirely on the technical work, right? Because you could never get enough time to focus and uh otherwise you will do a poor job as a CEO, right? So you had to give up on that. But now with coding agents I I can make them and they're working in the background and I can obviously I try not to be on the critical path of our most important technical projects but there are some small projects here and there I can grab to evaluate a specific thing or to tweak our synthetic data in one direction or another and I do that with my agents asynchronously and that works quite well. So now I think it's a great it's really a great time for technical founders to transition to CEO while still staying technically uh more involved.
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