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Peeyush Ranjan, former flipkart CTO and a google veteran, has joined Mukesh Bansal’s startup incubator, Meraki Labs, as a partner.
Based in San Francisco, he will help to grow Meraki’s presence in Silicon Valley, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI). He will also work closely with entrepreneurs at the incubator to guide their tech and product strategies.
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“Meraki’s focus is to be a moonshot factory for amazing projects, and in today’s day, AI is a key component of that,” he said. “A big part of my role will be to guide the AI vision for Meraki… What kind of companies we should start, what are the problems that we will be great at solving?... Not just applying AI for the sake of it.”
Ranjan said that being in Silicon Valley, while Bansal is in Bengaluru, gives Meraki the chance to connect with global networks and talent.
“With his deep product mindset and engineering leadership, he (Ranjan) will play a key role in building new companies, leading our AI vision, and helping Meraki establish a strong presence in Silicon Valley," Bansal said.
“Peeyush has built many large-scale products from scratch used by hundreds of millions of people around the world and has a very strong pulse on emerging tech trends,” he added.
As a partner, Ranjan will be involved in investments for the companies in Meraki Labs' portfolio.
He will also join the board of Nurix AI, Bansal's own AI startup at Meraki Labs.
Before joining Meraki Labs, Ranjan worked at Google as general manager and vice president of engineering, leading teams that developed AI-driven products like Google Assistant and parts of the Gemini app.
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