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Akash Talyan
Akash Talyan is a Product Designer at Zip (ziphq.com), a San Francisco-based AI procurement platform valued at $2.2 billion. He leads design for the agent experience team, building the human-AI interfaces that power enterprise procurement automation. With a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech and a career spanning Coinbase, Verily Life Sciences, and Lucid Software, Akash brings rare depth to the challenge of making agentic AI workflows feel intuitive to real enterprise users.
Rujul Zaparde
Rujul Zaparde is the co-founder and CEO of Zip, the $2.2 billion AI platform for enterprise procurement trusted by OpenAI, Anthropic, Snowflake, and hundreds of leading enterprises. A serial entrepreneur who dropped out of Harvard at 17 to co-found FlightCar (acquired by Mercedes-Benz in 2016), he later joined Airbnb as a product manager and served as a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator before launching Zip in 2020. Under his leadership, Zip has raised $371 million in funding, processes over $107 billion in spend, and manages 3.9 million suppliers, while enabling over $4.4 billion in customer savings. He also co-founded Drinking Water for India, building 50+ wells serving 100,000+ people.