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Eric Williamson Is Teaching Enterprise AI to Start Small
After two decades selling everything from pizza to enterprise software, CallMiner's CMO has a plain answer for the AI gold rush: listen closely, choose the useful work and collect the little wins.
Peter Isaacson Keeps Finding the Missing Middle
From a 28,000-account wake-up call to AI agents that answer when buyers do, Invoca CMO Peter Isaacson has spent four decades making marketing answer one stubborn question: did it move the business?
Laura Beussman Learned Revenue in the Orchestra Pit - Then Taught AI to Listen
Before she ran marketing and revenue at CallRail, Laura Beussman worked behind the scenes in opera, theater and arts finance. The lesson she carried into AI-era marketing is wonderfully analog: listen closely, price honestly and never confuse a beautiful dashboard with the customer.
Anis Bennaceur Is Teaching Sales Software to Finish the Job
A former startup rival became his co-founder. A neglected CRM became the clue. Now the Attention CEO is betting that the useful sales tool is the one that acts after everyone leaves the call.
Jake Cronin
Jake Cronin is the founder and CEO of Siro, a New York based conversation intelligence platform that records and analyzes the face-to-face conversations of field sales reps and turns them into AI coaching. He learned the sales craft the hard way, selling Cutco knives door to door as a teenager and ranking among the company's top reps worldwide, then spent two years as a McKinsey business analyst before leaving in 2020 to code Siro's first product himself. The company has raised roughly $75 million, including a $50 million Series B led by SignalFire in 2025, and works with home services, telecom, and multifamily sales teams across the country.
Ethan Barhydt
Ethan Barhydt is the founder and CEO of VoiceOps, a New York based AI company that listens to call center conversations and turns them into coaching. He built his first AI model in college, started two companies before he graduated from Harvard, and launched VoiceOps in 2016 to do for sales calls what self-driving car teams do for road footage: learn from millions of real examples. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch, raised a $9M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures, and has helped clients lift conversion rates and slash agent attrition. Barhydt made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018.
Krish Ramineni
Krish Ramineni is the co-founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai, the AI meeting assistant that quietly joins calls, transcribes them, and turns an hour of talk into a five-minute read. He left one of the youngest product manager roles at Microsoft to build it with college friend Sam Udotong, pivoting five or six times before landing on meetings. Today Fireflies serves 20M+ users across 500,000+ organizations - including most of the Fortune 500 - and reached unicorn status on roughly $19M raised while staying profitable. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he now also lectures at Stanford on building AI products.
Charlie Woodward
Charlie Woodward is the CEO and co-founder of Natter, an AI-native conversation intelligence platform that runs thousands of simultaneous 1:1 video conversations to capture the voices of employees, members, and customers at scale. A former Uber business development executive and BBC head of commercial partnerships, Woodward started Natter in 2021 as a remote-work 'virtual watercooler' and pivoted it into an enterprise tool that replaces surveys and focus groups, returning themes and sentiment within hours. In April 2026 Natter raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and moved its headquarters from London to New York.
Gorish Aggarwal
Gorish Aggarwal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sybill AI, an agentic AI platform that automates the administrative grind of B2B sales - generating call summaries, drafting follow-up emails, and syncing CRM data so sales reps can focus on closing deals. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer who once worked on AI to restore sight to the blind, Gorish pivoted from computational neuroscience to sales intelligence after noticing during a 2020 Zoom lecture that reading human engagement over video was nearly impossible. He and three Stanford roommates - including his sister Mehak Aggarwal - built Sybill, scaling it from $100K to $1M ARR in nine months and raising $14.5M total, with an oversubscribed $11M Series A led by Greycroft in July 2024.
Mehak Aggarwal
Mehak Aggarwal is the Co-Founder, CPO, and Head of AI at Sybill, an AI-powered sales assistant platform that analyzes sales calls, writes follow-up emails, and updates CRMs automatically. A product of IIT Delhi's dual-degree program in Mathematics and Computing, she went on to conduct research at Harvard's biomedical imaging center (where she developed a patented CT scan fracture-detection algorithm), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Singapore University of Technology and Design. She and her co-founders - including her brother Gorish Aggarwal - built Sybill into a 700+ customer platform with $14.6M in total funding. In 2025, she was named a fully funded Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business, continuing to lead Sybill while studying.