Sramana Mitra: The domain that I feel very bullish about is healthcare. There are vast swaths of the world that have no access to good healthcare. I think AI can turn that around. John Roese: Absolutely. In the mid 2000’s, I was the CTO of a company called Nortel in Canada. I was on the
Sramana Mitra: I love this keeping all your innovation process tied to customers. That may yield slightly less glamorous innovation, but it keeps a good solid innovation process running. The thing that is tricky at this stage where ServiceNow is, it’s now getting to a much larger organization. It’s over 7,000 people. There are a
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Sramana Mitra: We have a lot of adoption over the years in India. We’ve been very active in the Indian ecosystem. A lot of the early work in India was concept arbitrage from American ideas. That’s still true. There’s a lot of that going on. There are new ideas coming out that leverage some of
Sramana Mitra: I wrote a series called Man and Superman. It makes a point that we’re going to a society where people who have the higher-order skillsets are going to thrive and everybody else is going to struggle. That gap is going to grow. The obvious question is how do you create more superman kind
Sramana Mitra: One thing to remember here is that some of the most successful companies in the world have been led by Founder CEOs, whether it’s Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. Steve Jobs, actually, got into a tremendously traumatic situation being fired out of Apple. By the way, the Steve Jobs that came back to
Sramana Mitra: You mentioned a travel company out of Vienna. Vienna isn’t exactly the hotbed of startups in Europe. What is the genesis of this company and how did this come about? Hussein Kanji: It’s even more colorful. The two founders of the business are Australian, one of who moved to Vienna and married a
Sramana Mitra: How big is this pool? John Roese: There’s an unfortunate statistic that we tracked from many years. The pool is not growing in terms of the total number of potential people who can do this work in many markets. In the United States, there were about two million professional computer scientists about 20