Sankalp Arora, CEO of Gather AI, shares his journey from PhD to CEO, highlighting how his company built an impactful AI team based on compassion, curiosity.
Sankalp Arora, CEO of Gather AI, shares his journey from PhD to CEO, highlighting how his company built an impactful AI team based on compassion, curiosity, and talent. He discusses strategies for revolutionizing warehouses with AI robots and navigating challenges like COVID-19.
So, talking about working, um how have you guys thought about tool building your team? You know, the 75 employees, you know, to really power this. There are two things that we really care about other than, you know, hiring the best in their domain in the world, which is people who are best in having physical AI that actually works in the environment and not just not just in the same or not just in a compute cluster. One is people who have just a lot of customer compassion for the and believe in the problem they're solving and how they can help in someone's life. As a result, what has ended up happening is we have attracted a lot of people who have experienced this problem themselves or in some form in their job. So, we have people from from large supply chain companies, like Amazon, Walmart, Uber, uh and people from uh deep tech companies. So, the first first trait we look for is that
customer compassion. Someone wanting to make an impact on someone's life in this domain. And the second thing we we really look for is someone who can work with high agency and curiosity. And we have interviews designed for how we how we filter how we filter for those and check for those. And for the 75 of us, you will see a collection of people that are really driven to solve someone's problem and take ownership of solving that problem. And uh are curious about building