E65: Infrastructure for AI-First Teams with Ivan Burazin (Daytona)
Wed Jan 14 2026
This week, we’re joined by Ivan Burazin, co-founder of Daytona - a company rethinking developer environments for an AI-native world.
We talk about how Daytona creates real value for developers, why the most advanced agent companies are emerging bottom up, and the idea that agents should be treated as first class users with reliable access to compute. Ivan also shares some of Daytona’s most demanding use cases including AI scientists in chemistry and pharma running agents inside massive sandboxes with hundreds of CPUs.
We also cover what reliability looks like when customers define success as whether the system works at all, how Daytona maintains sub 90 millisecond latency while spinning up millions of environments per day, and how they support always on usage with no fixed schedule. Finally, we dig into go to market lessons from putting engineers on the front lines early to why Daytona prioritizes in person engagement and intentional events as the most authentic way to build trust with developers.
Episode chapters:
1:43 – Market timing and why now3:18 – Building for developers and dev tools4:55 – Global developer communities7:55 – Computers as infrastructure for agents10:32 – Product-led growth12:17 – Enterprise use cases and adoption16:25 – Managing cost, performance, and latency19:20 – Hiring for resiliency at scale20:40 – Internal AI use cases at Daytona24:25 – Creating a bottom-up go-to-market motion27:42 – Hiring and scaling developer relations29:55 – Partnerships and ecosystem strategy31:00 – Quick-fire round
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This week, we’re joined by Ivan Burazin, co-founder of Daytona - a company rethinking developer environments for an AI-native world. We talk about how Daytona creates real value for developers, why the most advanced agent companies are emerging bottom up, and the idea that agents should be treated as first class users with reliable access to compute. Ivan also shares some of Daytona’s most demanding use cases including AI scientists in chemistry and pharma running agents inside massive sandboxes with hundreds of CPUs. We also cover what reliability looks like when customers define success as whether the system works at all, how Daytona maintains sub 90 millisecond latency while spinning up millions of environments per day, and how they support always on usage with no fixed schedule. Finally, we dig into go to market lessons from putting engineers on the front lines early to why Daytona prioritizes in person engagement and intentional events as the most authentic way to build trust with developers. Episode chapters: 1:43 – Market timing and why now3:18 – Building for developers and dev tools4:55 – Global developer communities7:55 – Computers as infrastructure for agents10:32 – Product-led growth12:17 – Enterprise use cases and adoption16:25 – Managing cost, performance, and latency19:20 – Hiring for resiliency at scale20:40 – Internal AI use cases at Daytona24:25 – Creating a bottom-up go-to-market motion27:42 – Hiring and scaling developer relations29:55 – Partnerships and ecosystem strategy31:00 – Quick-fire round This episode is brought to you by Grata, the leading deal sourcing platform for private equity. Grata’s AI powered search, investment grade data, and intuitive workflows help you find and win the right deals faster. Visit grata.com to book a demo. This episode is also sponsored by Overlap, the AI powered app that uses LLMs to surface the best moments from any podcast. Overlap reads full transcripts, finds the most relevant clips, and stitches them into a personalized stream of insights. Tap into podcasts as a real information source with Overlap 2.0, now available on the App Store.