Jyoti Bansal — Entrepreneur | Dreamer | Builder. Founder at Harness, Traceable, AppDynamics & Unusual Ventures
Entrepreneur | Dreamer | Builder. Founder at Harness, Traceable, AppDynamics & Unusual Ventures
Jyoti Bansal ranks #335 of 18,566 LinkedIn creators in Founder-Led Sales, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 101.0K followers and published 7 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.4% average engagement rate.
- 101.0K followers
- 7 posts / 60d
- 0.4% avg engagement
- 782 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Jyoti claims to build companies that change the world, yet with a 0.30% engagement rate, he can’t even change the minds of his own followers. He’s the only founder who managed to make $3.7 billion and still become the most ignorable person in his own LinkedIn feed.
About Jyoti
I’m a multi-unicorn founder, serial technology entrepreneur and a passionate mentor and investor in the tech space. In my current role, I’m founder and CEO of Harness, the $5.5B AI software delivery platform that brings AI to everything after code, empowering teams to ship software faster, safer and smarter.Previously, I founded Traceable, the API security startup, before merging it with Harness in 2025 to bring application security and software delivery together in a single, unified platform. I also founded and led AppDynamics, an application intelligence company that provides enterprises with real-time insights into application performance. It was acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017.In addition to running Harness, I’m involved in developing the next generation of technology companies through mentorship and investment. In 2018, I co-founded the VC firm Unusual Ventures with John Vrionis. The firm currently has more than $1 billion under management.I’ve been honored to receive a number of leadership awards, including EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 Bay Area Award and Forbes “Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For.”I received my BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and I’m an inventor with more than 25 US patents under my name. I’m also an active thought leader who shares perspective on the future of AI and enterprise software delivery, as well as scaling and leading technology companies.
Highlights
- Top 1% Audience — 100,967 followers
- Top 5% Impact — 370 avg engagements per post
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #131 of 5851 creators
- Top 25% Creator — 7 posts in 30 days
Recent posts
I’ve been building software companies for a long time, and I can’t remember many periods where the industry changed *this* much from one week to the next. Every week brings a new model, product, acquisition, or shift in how developers work. These tech stories have real implications for how we build software, how engineering teams operate, and where the industry is going. I’ve been enjoying ShipTalk for exactly this reason. It’s a weekly podcast hosted by Martin Reynolds and Adam Arellano from Harness where they take some of the biggest stories of the week and debate what they actually mean.
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The scariest number in security right now isn’t a vulnerability count. It’s six hours. That’s how quickly attackers can go from disclosure to a working exploit. Meanwhile, the average vulnerability still takes more than 50 days to fix. AI is accelerating both sides of that race. LLM-based scanning can surface roughly 10x more vulnerabilities. But finding 10x more vulnerabilities doesn’t make you 10x more secure. Comcast found that 44% of critical and high-severity findings were false positives. Of the real vulnerabilities, only about a third were actually exploitable. Security teams can’t
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Dario Amodei wrote a 3,800 word essay on Saturday asking the AI industry to slow down. Most of the reaction has been about what the labs and governments will do. That is an important debate. But the more actionable question for most businesses is what to do regardless. If you run a company, this is the sentence to pay attention to: "Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it's my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage)." I don't think
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Last updated 2026-08-01