Kunal Punera
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Kunal has held leadership positions at LinkedIn and Google; most recently he was a Director of AI at LinkedIn where he ran AI teams for the Recruiter, Premium, and Learning products, accounting for many billions in revenue. In 2014, Kunal co-founded Bento Labs, and prior to that he was a founding engineer at RelateIQ (sold to Salesforce for ~$400M) where he built their entire ML stack. Kunal has a PhD in ML from Univ of Texas at Austin, and worked at Yahoo! Research on NLP and Generative Models.
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- Role: Engineering
- Specialty: AI / ML
- Specialty: Software engineer / Developer
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Kissflow: Finding the Workflow Business Inside a Technology PlatformSuresh Sambandam's early platform struggled to turn technical capability into a strong business. Watching customers build workflows led to Kissflow, followed by a different approach to marketing, enterprise sales, and so |
Wade Foster charged $100 after building the integration a forum asked forWade Foster says Zapier's first paying customer was Mixergy's Andrew Warner, billed $100 into an unfinished beta after Wade found a stale PayPal-to-Highrise plea and then shipped Wufoo-to-AWeber instead, taking the money |
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