Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 1)

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. This is a fantastic discussion on how to cold start an AI company, build it to scale, etc. Also, excellent guidance on white spaces around which to build new AI companies. Sramana Mitra: Let's start by introducing our audience to yourself. Tell us a bit about your background and all also introduce us to People.ai. Oleg Rogynskyy: I am the CEO and Founder of People.ai. I have been doing startups all my life. My previous company Semantria was also an AI company. I started it in 2011 and then sold it in 2014. People.ai was started in 2016 when I moved out here to Silicon Valley. I have been working on it ever since. Sramana Mitra: Where did you move from? Oleg Rogynskyy: Montreal. I am originally from Slovenia. I worked for one of the first AI companies called Nstein Technologies from 2006 to 2010. We sold it to Open Text. Our technology now is the Open Text AI. I