0:01Intro 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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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. 


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Ep 91 - Ishan Mukherjee on launching Rox, and living the American Dream

Ep 91 - Ishan Mukherjee on launching Rox, and living the American Dream

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