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Anand Janefalkar Put the Smartphone on Hold - Then Rebuilt the Call Center Around It
A misspelled surname, a car phone in a movie and years spent making smartphones taught Anand Janefalkar the same lesson: technology works best when it gets out of the conversation. UJET is his decade-long attempt to make customer service behave accordingly.
Jyoti Bansal Is Building the Factory After the Code
He waited seven years for permission to start. Then he sold AppDynamics on the eve of its IPO, discovered retirement was a poor fit, and returned to the workbench. Now Harness is his attempt to organize everything that happens after code.
Vaidhy Murti
Vaidhy Murti is the founder and CEO of WIT, a New York fan-engagement and consumer-data platform that runs sponsored contests, polls, and instant-win games for teams across the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, MLS, and NCAA. A Princeton computer-science grad, he built his first company, the college dating app Friendsy, out of his dorm room and became the youngest founder backed by Lerer Hippeau at 21. WIT took four years and three pivots to turn profitable, and now powers digital activations for nearly 100 venues, leagues, and Fortune 1000 brands.