Show Notes: Episode 45 with Sameer Ranjan

Written by BJ Anderson on September 23, 2024

🚀 Episode 45 of Founder’s Ascent is live, and it’s all about making big decisions easier---like how I use my spreadsheets!

I’ve always been a fan of spreadsheets (if you know me well, you’ve seen THE spreadsheet). One of the earlier, but relatively important ones I built picked which college to attend. With a few hours of data entry---ranking colleges on things like cost, location, chess clubs, computer science programs, and Panda Express locations (only the really important stuff obviously) --- I made my choice: The University of Texas at Dallas. It’s been a great decision!

But, what if there was an even better way to make life’s big choices? 🤔

Enter Sameer Ranjan, my guest for Episode 45. Sameer is the CTO and Director of Data Science at Catenate Corp, an AI-driven platform designed to assist people in making the right decisions at key moments in life---whether that’s choosing a career, enhancing soft skills, or even managing wealth.

In this episode, Sameer shares his journey from underground metal mining to data mining, and how his experiences have shaped his passion for creating technology that can guide people toward better, more fulfilling lives. He also explains how Catenate’s AI framework can help high school students---like I once was---choose the best career or college based on data-driven insights.

If you’ve ever struggled with making a big decision, or if you’re curious about how AI can help us better understand ourselves and our potential, this episode is for you!

Here’s what we cover:
🔸 The origin of Catenate.io and its mission to make decision-making smarter
🔸 How AI can be used for good, avoiding bias and manipulation
🔸 The importance of diversity in business and tech
🔸 A glimpse into the future of startups and AI technology

Sameer’s insights will make you rethink how you approach big life choices---and maybe, just maybe, you’ll retire those old spreadsheets (okay probably not all of them for me, but definitely some of them have been outclassed).

Watch it now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting platform.

And be sure to watch the whole episode. Sameer gave us some top secret information on an AI program coming to Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas. Top secret though, so be sure to keep it quiet and definitely do not share the episode or repost this.

Expect a few more posts like this from me and my co-host Gavin Thomas as we have great conversations with business leaders, startup founders and tech experts every week, but we haven’t done the best job of letting everyone know.