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Sonakshi Nathani and the Art of the Second Beginning
She left Microsoft to fix the WhatsApp confusion in her family's grocery shop. Then she did the harder thing: she rebuilt the company she had already proved she could grow.
Samraaj Bath Keeps Turning Creative Restlessness Into Products
Before ION became an AI growth team for ecommerce, its founder sold chai ice cream from a garage, danced professionally and rebuilt a 1981 motorcycle. The through-line is less software than craft - and a stubborn wish to let more people make things.
Ben Vigoda Has Spent 25 Years Teaching Machines to Handle the Mess
Before AI could sell you a jacket, Ben Vigoda taught chips to reckon with uncertainty. Now the Product Genius CEO is applying the same obsession to every scroll, pause and click.
Thomas McKenna
After years turning retail data into recommendations at dunnhumby, Deloitte and Bain, Thomas McKenna chose the harder brief: build the product, assemble the team and make advanced ecommerce AI useful beyond the largest retailers.
Sravanth Aluru
Sravanth Aluru is the co-founder and CEO of Avataar, a generative AI company building spatial storytelling and 3D visualization tools for enterprises and e-commerce. An IIT Bombay engineer and Wharton MBA, he moved from a program manager role at Microsoft to technology investment banking on Wall Street before founding Avataar in 2014. He holds more than 10 US patents across AI, computer vision, and mobile data transmission, and has raised over $55 million from investors including Tiger Global, Peak XV (Sequoia Capital India). Under his leadership Avataar has shifted from interactive 3D product experiences toward AI-generated product video, serving customers such as HP, Victoria's Secret, Lowe's, Samsung, and Sleep Number.