Governance Gives You Speed: Why AI Agents Must Earn Trust with Sri Viswanath // Founder & CEO @ Sycamore

Sri Viswanath, Founder & CEO of Sycamore, was Atlassian's first CTO, leading its move to cloud as revenue grew from $500M to $2.5B and engineering passed 7,000 people. He joins Tobi to talk about building an operating system for enterprise AI agents, and why he believes the more governance you have, the faster you can go.

He explains why software starts decaying the moment it ships, why agents should earn trust over time instead of being autonomous on day one, and how sandboxes, five-second tokens and verification make that trust possible.

The conversation also covers what 7,000 engineers at Atlassian actually did, the cloud migration call he calls his worst decision, and why systems thinking is the skill engineers need for 2028.