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Krish Ramineni is the co-founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai, a fast-growing startup based in San Francisco. The company has had a breakout year with its AI Voice Assistant that transcribes meetings, creates notes, and completes tasks. \n\nKrish launched Fireflies.ai to overwhelming demand and success in early 2020, at a time when we could certainly use all the assistance we could get as we figured out the new world of work. Prior to Fireflies, Krish was one of the youngest product managers at Microsoft, working on cutting-edge machine learning and growth engineering initiatives.\n\nThis Episode\u2019s Heavy-hitter\u2019s:\n\nGrowing up, Krish was raised by a father who was a film and real estate entrepreneur and a mother whose family was mostly full of doctors. Originally, Krish thought he wanted to work in medicine; but as he got older and started college, he realized he could have more of an impact in the tech industry.\n\nWhen Krish took his job as a project manager at Microsoft, he originally wanted to return to Silicon Valley on a return offer from a different company. After he was flown out and put up in a beautiful hotel for the interview process, he was stress tested immediately after in five rounds of actual interviews. Following that, he decided to work with Microsoft after all.\n\nKrish actually didn\u2019t intend to launch a startup when he originally left Microsoft\u2014 he was planning on going to grad school when he linked up with his co founder and started building Fireflies.ai during a two-month down period.\n\nWhen it comes to finding the right cofounder, Krish prioritizes working with someone that has similar values. For fireflies.ai, those values are centered around holding themselves to higher standards of product development and milestones.Fireflies.ai was ironically inspired by Krish\u2019s time at Microsoft, where meetings could sometimes be inefficient in taking up senior leaders\u2019 time, for example.\n\nTo learn more, please visit Fireflies.ai\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review:\xa0 \xa0https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast\n\n#thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at\xa0Interseller\xa0\u2013 the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Whether you\u2019re doubling down on business development or recruiting talent, Interseller does all the heavy lifting of finding contact data, automating the email and follow-up process, and syncs all that rich data into 20+ CRMs and ATSs. Reach out and get going in a 2-week *free* trial today and let them know you heard about them from Adam on #thePOZcast.\n\nCheck out a free demo today!\xa0https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ\n\nFor more, please visit www.thePOZcast.com Thanks for listening!