Clayton Petty invests in early-stage AI and software companies at Gradient. He previously worked with technology founders and investors at McKinsey, following software engineering roles at Microsoft and Expedia.

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Clayton Petty invests in early-stage AI and software companies at Gradient. He previously worked with technology founders and investors at McKinsey, following software engineering roles at Microsoft and Expedia.

Career

Clayton Petty studied at Texas A&M University (Computer science studies (2014–2018)).

Partner at Gradient Ventures until Present

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Zach Bratun-GlennonGeneral Partner at Gradient, investing in early-stage AI and software companies.
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Clayton goes beyond getting in front of great businesses, and is able to help shape them.
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The Web Is Too Human for Agents

How authentication designed around human behavior constrains agents, and what scoped identities could change for developers and applications.

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How do you backup an enterprise run by AI agents?

Why agent-driven enterprises need recovery systems that preserve context, replay actions and account for effects outside the database.

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Software companies need more than a moat

His analysis of SaaS investor sentiment and the product, ecosystem and hiring choices facing founders as AI changes software markets.

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