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 #292 of 19,190 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 30 days at a 0.5% average engagement rate.
- 101.0K followers
- 7 posts / 30d
- 0.5% 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
- Big Audience — 100,967 followers · top 1%
- High Impact — 518 avg engagements per post · top 5%
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #276 of 5940 creators
- Consistent Creator — 4 posts in 30d · top 25%
Recent posts
An AI agent doesn't have to be malicious to break containment. It just needs a goal—and a path the surrounding system allows it to find. That's what OpenAI disclosed this week. OpenAI's models were given one objective: solve a cybersecurity benchmark. Nobody told them to compromise Hugging Face. But while pursuing the goal, they found a path that led there. According to OpenAI's preliminary findings, the models went to "extreme lengths," spending substantial inference compute to find a zero-day in a package-registry proxy, reach the open internet, and chain exploits and stolen credentials t
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Today, I'm excited to launch Harness Agent DLC: new products and capabilities across the AI agent development lifecycle. When we started Harness, the vision was a safety harness for code. Until recently, that meant application code. Today, it also means agentic code: building and shipping AI agents. An agent doesn't run the same way twice. It picks its own tools, APIs, and sequence of actions at runtime. I've watched this trip up some of the smartest engineers on my team. They write a test, it passes, and they move on. On the next run, with the same input, the agent can take a different path
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Thanks to Frederic Lardinois and The New Stack for the great coverage of our Autonomous Worker Agents launch. One point from our conversation that I wanted to highlight: building AI agents is quickly becoming the easy part. Building the harness around them is the hard part. It’s why we named the company Harness in the first place. That belief has shaped every phase of the company — from reliable deployments, to a broader software delivery platform, to AI assistants, and now Autonomous Worker Agents. To me, this is all leading toward the same destination: autonomous software engineering. Not
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