
CEO Mukund Jha of Emergent, which raised $100M since 2025, goes live Wednesday to talk how AI coding tools reshape software jobs and company valuations.
Business Insider is hosting a live Q&A on Wednesday with Mukund Jha, CEO of Emergent, a startup that raised $100 million since its 2025 launch. The company builds tools that let non-programmers write code, a trend the publication covered in its recent series "The Great Coding Reset."
Jha will field questions on how AI coding tools are changing software engineering roles and what the shift means for the companies building and buying those tools. The series described a broad worry that legacy software firms could lose relevance as AI automates more of the development pipeline. That same anxiety has propelled funding into startups like Emergent.
For the sector, the live session offers a direct view into how an early-stage player sees its own scaling. Jha has previously said the engineer's job is evolving, not vanishing. The detail on hiring patterns and product use may give markets a clearer sense of which incumbents face real disruption and which are insulated by enterprise contracts or proprietary data.
The event streams at 11 a.m. ET Wednesday on Business Insider's platforms. No recording details have been announced.
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