Akhil Raj Gupta

Akhil Raj Gupta

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Founder at Luminary, ex Airbnb

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Akhil Raj Gupta will teach you how to build an AI native company

Akhil is the founder of Luminary (theluminary.ai), an AI platform that connects world-class practitioners to individuals and companies for AI education and training.

We provide cohort based courses, workshops, and corporate trainings / advisory on AI product management, deployment, and engineering.

Akhil is also an executive advisor to CEOs on AI transformation and strategy, helping them to deploy AI in their organizations, become superproductive themselves, and build customer facing AI products.

Before that, Akhil spent years in Product and Strategy at Airbnb in SF, where he owned the global customer loyalty and brand goodwill mandate — one of the company's largest P&Ls, run across the most operationally complex marketplace in the world.

Previously at
Airbnb

Alumni reviews

Sameer

Live cohort
Akhil’s course was a great learning experience, with practical use cases that helped me connect the concepts to real-world applications. I especially appreciated the implementation support, which made it easier to put what I learned into practice. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for hands-on learning!

Kriti

Live cohort
Two things stood out for me. Learning how agents actually work and how to build a customised agentic system for myself took away so much of my anxiety about AI (it stopped feeling like a black box). And the cohort itself was so thoughtfully put together that it genuinely made the learning experience outstanding. The 1:1 sessions were truly helpful in hindsight.

KM

Live cohort
Akhil's course curation made the material accessible from both a conceptual and a practical standpoint, notwithstanding my zero technical grounding. Provided you apply the principles and techniques taught, the course will benefit anyone whose work involves a computer. The heart and soul of the course, however, was the 1:1 sessions with Akhil. AI agents remain in their relative infancy, with no settled playbook for their use. Being a practitioner himself, Akhil used these sessions to tailor the content to my own AI workflows. His command of AI as a technology added a further dimension. Several of my doubts went deeper than the course material and, at times, well beyond its scope. Akhil addressed them with ease. For anyone who wishes to use AI meaningfully rather than as a glorified web search tool, I recommend this course without reservation.