Roundtable Recap: February 20 – AI Investment Thesis with Raju Reddy

During this week’s roundtable, we had entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Board Member Raju Reddy discussing his AI investment thesis.

Talkk

As for our entrepreneur pitch, today we had Ashutosh Paretkar from Mumbai, India pitch Talkk.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Sramana Mitra: All right, Lance, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of backgrounds? What brings us to the entrepreneurial journey?

Lance Newhauser: Thank you for having me here. I really appreciate the opportunity. Your mission is admirable, and I love that you’re helping companies grow across the world.

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Colors: Brishti I

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Brishti I

Brishti I | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper