It crowdfunded $600K, out-patented its rivals, and put two million cameras on America's doorframes - then Amazon bought Ring and everything about the doorbell wars got louder.
Riccardo (Ricky) Pellegrini is the co-founder and CEO of Knode.ai, a New York-based AI sales-management platform that mines sales conversations to coach reps, score calls, and turn winning behaviors into repeatable playbooks. A Harvard College and Harvard Business School graduate, he built his career as a product leader - Head of Product for AWS Data Exchange and VP of Product at RapidSOS - before founding Knode in 2023 with Nicholas Horelik and Henry Katz. He is an inventor on multiple software patents and an active angel investor.