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Ayush Garg Started With One Annoying Download. Now He’s Rewriting the Research Workflow.
Before AnswerThis became a research platform used around the world, it was a teenager’s refusal to keep downloading papers one by one. Ayush Garg has spent years turning that small irritation into a larger argument: scientific work should move at the speed of the questions, not the software.
Gary Ellis Is Betting That AI Still Needs Someone to Ask the Room
The Remesh CEO came to software through scientific research and political campaigns. Now he is arguing for a more useful bargain with AI: let machines organize the conversation, but keep real people in the room.
Alexandra Frankel
Alexandra Frankel is the CEO of Getwizer, a New York-based hybrid consumer insights platform that fuses AI automation with human research expertise to run fast, custom, modular studies for brands like Mars, Coca-Cola, Paramount and Puma. A McGill-trained psychologist with a master's in quantitative methods from Columbia, she rose through roles at Nielsen, Ipsos, NBCUniversal, Simulmedia and Hotspex before spending five years at Getwizer as head of insights and strategy, then taking the top job in February 2025. She has two prior research-startup exits (to Nielsen and Ipsos), two industry innovation awards, a notable streak of NFT consumer studies, and a nonprofit children's book venture, Rainbow Zebra Co., built around teaching kids kindness.