Raghu Ravinutala was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug long before he co-founded yellow.ai in 2016 with a vision to make customer and enterprise interactions more effective and effortless. Previously, he worked for 16 years with leading tech companies such as Texas Instruments and Broadcom, taking leadership roles in engineering, product management and business development both in the Bay Area and India. He is an alumnus of NIT Warangal, enjoys a game of squash every now and then and believes in practicing an active lifestyle. 

We talk about conversation automation platforms and the AI underlying it, and the work yellow.ai has done with ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) and their Digital Fleet offering.