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artificial intelligence
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How many were you able to get to start building out your model? Oleg Rogynskyy: Graduating from Y Combinator helped us become very successful. We managed to get from Zero to 100 POC customers in the first 90 days. This was when we were in the Y Combinator. We got 100 companies on
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You are doing this out of what geography? It’s no longer Montreal, right? Oleg Rogynskyy: I’m in Menlo Park right now. Sramana Mitra: You are in Menlo Park. Wow, I am in Menlo Park too. What part of Menlo Park are you in? Oleg Rogynskyy: I used to live near downtown, but now
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Filing has always been a big problem with CRM. Salespeople don’t like to log their communication, so you are automating that. Oleg Rogynskyy: Yes, we are doing that with superhuman decisions. It turns out that the most predictive feature of activity data that leads to success of the activity or deal closing or
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What problem did you decide to go after with all this technology understanding? Oleg Rogynskyy: We observed that most of the sales leaders at the time didn’t really know what their teams were doing. They didn’t know how to coach their sales team to better perform and have higher productivity without any data
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. This is a fantastic discussion on how to cold start an AI company, build it to scale, etc. Also, excellent guidance on white spaces around which to build new AI companies. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself. Tell us a
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ram Swaminathan, CEO of BUDDI.AI (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Last question. When you look around in your space, where would you point new entrepreneurs to look for white spaces? Ram Swaminathan: In general, you should look for problems by not reading some Forbes article. The challenge is more on the ground. The more that entrepreneurs can talk to functional workers in that
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ram Swaminathan, CEO of BUDDI.AI (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You are from Utah, right? Ram Swaminathan: I spent 20 years in India. I grew up in Chennai and had a full scholarship at Utah State for electrical engineering. I always wanted to go to Utah. You might be surprised, but NASA has a sister division of JPL which is called Space Dynamics
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ram Swaminathan, CEO of BUDDI.AI (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Your AI is integrated into all kinds of EMR systems? Ram Swaminathan: Yes. We are working with one of Athena’s accounts and we hope to grow that account and potentially work with Athena directly as well. The hope is to keep going up the channel partnership route and integrate ourselves with almost all
