Pratap Ranade, Co-Founder & CEO of Arena: $32 Million Raised to Build the Future of Enterprise Decision Making

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Pratap Ranade, Co-Founder & CEO of Arena, an enterprise decision making platform that’s raised $32 Million in funding, about why rapid advances in AI technology are leaving many enterprises in the dust, and why driving improved institutional learning cycles means a faster, more efficient world for all of us. By delivering rapid learning cycles through data feedback and automated decision making, Area intends to make its mark on the modern economy through the better business choices being made with its tech.

We also speak about how Pratap transitioned from physics to startup tech, his first forays as a founder and how they helped him understand what it took to be a leader in business, the history of hierarchy in human organization and how Arena promises that AI can do it better.

Topics Discussed:

• Pratap’s background education in physics and what eventually pushed him to set out on a startup journey
• Pratap’s first founder experience, and the success and lessons he brought forward to Arena
• Pratap’s admiration for Steve Jobs as the creator of products with real impact on people’s lives
• How data can drive innovation and learning through improved learning cycles and more efficient feedback loops
• The history of hierarchy in human organization and how it might be holding us back
• Why data is at the heart of keeping large enterprises as agile as their startup contemporaries

 

Favorite book: 

Player of Games by Anne Banks