Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

August 27, 2026

Duration

34m

Channel

No Priors

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Google’s purchase of Spirit Airlines’ data out of bankruptcy signaled a shift in how the tech world values real-world datasets. Although compute and models get much of the attention, in this landscape, it’s data that is a company’s protective moat. Eon CEO / Co-Founder Ofir Ehrlich and President / Co-Founder Gonen Stein join Elad Gil to talk about how Eon is redefining cloud backup into a secure data foundation designed to power and protect enterprise AI. Ofir and Gonen discuss why historical enterprise data is in demand by AI labs, and how Eon facilitates access to scattered and locked data across business units through providing the mapping, classification, and access controls needed to connect it into AI workflows. They also explore how traditional ransomware defenses must now protect against rogue AI agents with legitimate system permissions, concerns around the influx of autonomous agents and non-human identities, and the implications for the breakneck speed of AI adoption compared to the slowness of the cloud era. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Eon_io_ | @OfirEhrlich Chapters: 00:00 – Cold Open Trailer 00:59 – Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein Introduction 01:27 – What Eon Does 02:41 – Data as Moat 06:43 – Training Agents with Good Data 09:39 – Data is the New Oil 15:00 – Autonomous Security Threats 18:15 – How Agents Change the Enterprise Stack 22:11 – Re-imagining Data Infrastructure 27:52 – Cloud vs. AI Era Shift 30:26 – How AI is Changing Companies 34:31 – Conclusion

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Gonen Stein

  guest

  Co-founder of Eon (previously co-founded CloudEndure, acquired by AWS), focused on cloud/data infrastructure.

• Ofir Ehrlich

  guest

  Co-founder of Eon and previously co-founded CloudEndure (acquired by AWS), working on modern enterprise data infrastructure.

• Elad Gil

  host

  Co-host of No Priors and technology investor/operator.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Gonen Stein and Ofir Ehrlich, Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein explores backup becomes AI data foundation as agents reshape enterprise security Eon’s founders describe building a cloud “data foundation” that maps, classifies, ingests, and efficiently stores enterprise data to enable both disaster recovery and AI/LLM workflows on top of the same consolidated corpus.

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