Aarthi and Sriram talk to Ishan Mukherjee - a multi-time Silicon Valley based startup founder, launching his new AI startup Rox. Coming from a small town in India with working class beginnings, Ishan tells us his story of immigrating to the US, starting and exiting multiple companies, working at companies like Amazon and Apple and essentially, living the immigrant American Dream.
0:01 Intro
3:04 Ishan's Story
4:43 Inside IIT: India's Most Competitive Universities
6:50 How Quiz Championships Shaped a Tech Founder
11:45 Moving to the US
19:38 Building Kiva - The Early Days
24:45 The Amazon Acquisition
28:30 Immigration
34:55 What is ROX
37:00 Where are AI agents lacking/ State of LLMs
41:35 Reinventing CRMs
43:45 How ROX works
48:30 AI's Impact on Traditional Industries
53:45 The Launch: ROX Goes Public
57:00 Advice to Young Dreamers
58:35 The Ultimate Quiz Showdown
1:01:30 Outro
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