In this episode, host Amish Munshi chats with Ankur Mathur, a lifelong learner, passionate builder, and current CTO at Expirator. Ankur walks us through his fascinating story—from growing up in Calcutta, diving into sci-fi and neural networks, to working with giants like Macy’s and IBM, and now building intelligent marketing agents like Zyra.
You’ll hear about:


The early seeds of Ankur’s AI passion through Isaac Asimov’s books


His academic path from IIT Bombay to Cornell


The tech disruptions of the dot-com era and 9/11


Building AI from scratch at Iterable and now at Expirator


Launching Zyra, a conversational marketing AI


Insights into omni-channel marketing automation


Predictions about the future of AI, decentralization, and human-computer interaction


How startups can thrive without VC funding


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