1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Angel Investor Raju Reddy (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What else are you looking at, thinking about, interested in investing in in terms of AI companies? What are you looking for? Raju Reddy: For me, Sramana, pretty much all my investments have been at a very early seed stage.

1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Angel Investor Raju Reddy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The other really interesting area that I find very promising is that there are a lot of services companies out there and there’s so much AI technology right now to make services efficient. You almost can productize your services. If you have a hundred clients that you’re providing services to, you should be

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Angel Investor Raju Reddy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You know, we’ve had several discussions on AI-enabled drug discovery in, towards the end of last year. We have covered AI-enabled drug discovery on our blog quite extensively. It’s an area that I think is super exciting and super promising. Now, the conclusion that was coming out of those discussions was that drug

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Angel Investor Raju Reddy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Software development is getting hugely streamlined, right? The co-pilots are becoming extremely effective. So, you don’t need as many people on the software services side as well. There are a lot of co-pilot products that are getting sold into that business. So, there’s a whole market emerging out of efficiency in the software

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Angel Investor Raju Reddy (Part 1)

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Board Member Raju Reddy discusses his AI investment thesis.

Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10m: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What were you trying to build in the first iteraton? David Moricca: The original vision was an online music creation platform targeting young people. It’s called Breakout Band. We created one of the first music creation platforms. It had a beatmaker where you can create your own beats. You can add your own

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Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You have a political science and law background. Then you went to McKinsey to do some consulting work. This brings us to 2006 now? David Moricca: 2005. Sramana Mitra: What happens then? David Moricca: I was itching to move from consulting into more of an operational role. Because of my previous background and

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Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 1)

We very often get questions on whether non-technical founders can build tech companies. David’s story is a really interesting one that touches many aspects of the 1Mby1M methodology. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?