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Why Even With Great Products AI Startups Lose with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram, ex-Zoom AI

What does a founder learn from watching the CEO of a 32 billion dollar company make his biggest AI bets from the inside?

Mahesh Ram has built and sold three companies. Thomson Reuters acquired his first, GlobalEnglish went to Pearson after teaching English to more than ten million people at companies like IBM and HP, and Solvvy, one of the first conversational AI companies, was bought by Zoom in 2022. He then spent two and a half years heading AI products at Zoom, sitting beside founder Eric Yuan as the company raced Microsoft into the AI era.

In this conversation, Mahesh takes apart the…

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