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Learn what’s happening at the earliest stages of building. In The Foundation this month, we explore how @HyphenateAI’s founders are bringing AI to the CFO’s office (and how they got where they are today), how insurance is getting automated, what it means to have one of America’s Greatest Living Optimists on our team, and much more.

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“Run into the vertical as fast as you can.” 🏃💨 Four-time founder @munjalshah shares some of his hardest-earned advice for getting ahead in AI. Hear more from the CEO of @hippocraticai in conversation with @ashugarg in our latest podcast episode.

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Making today’s insurance processes faster is only part of the AI opportunity.

Fulcrum co-founder and CEO Arjun Mangla argues that today’s impressive automation gains could become tomorrow’s baseline. The bigger opportunity is to rethink how insurance works.

Take a business adding five trucks to its fleet. Today, updating its coverage means emails, forms, and repeated follow-ups between the business, its broker, and its insurer. Arjun envisions insurance connected to a company’s business systems, so coverage can adjust automatically as the business changes.

Hear more about what that future could look like on AI in the Real World, out now:

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Some entrepreneurs are born. Arjun Mangla, co-founder and CEO of Fulcrum, shares how his father’s passion for building a company gave him the foundation to start his own.

Stay tuned for our latest AI in the Real World episode, coming soon.