Meta (Nasdaq: META), formerly Facebook, announced its quarterly results last week that outpaced market expectations. The market is also buoyed by the longer term vision for AI that Meta shared across its product portfolio.
>>>Rajesh Jain has built a Bootstrapped Unicorn from India. This is an important case study for all the bootstrapped entrepreneurs out there looking for inspiration and methodology to scale.
Sramana Mitra: Alright, Rajesh, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from, where were you born, raised, what kind of background?
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Sramana Mitra: I think for entrepreneurs listening to this conversation, there are two takeaways that you want to consider. One is, find a platform that you can build on. If you’re building enterprise products or mid-market B2B products, look at a platform called Cohere.
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Sramana Mitra: The other point I want to make in this discussion is that AI is not only generative AI. There are many, very powerful problems that are being solved with AI, but not necessarily generative AI.
>>>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 – North II
North II | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Pastel, Ink | 8 x 8, On Paper