Hana Rhee

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I lead NA/global sales at FriendliAI — the AI Inference Cloud built by the researchers who invented continuous batching (Orca), the technique the entire industry now runs on. We help AI-native companies run frontier open and custom models blazing fast in production, at 50–90% below closed-API costs. Halfway through 2026, the market is coming to us faster than anyone planned — including us. Every AI product that wins will win on inference economics. We intend to be the reason. This is my third AI wave, tracing backwards: inference at FriendliAI as agents break the market open. Enterprise AI at C3 before the boom. Conversational AI at eBay before ChatGPT. Part curiosity, part luck — grateful for both. The wave I'm in now: inference — the layer every AI product's unit economics live or die on — as the agent era multiplies volume beyond what most plans have priced in. Before this, C3 AI: 280% of a $2.7M annual quota, advising C-suite and government leadership through hard digital transformations — where I learned that enterprise AI deals aren't won on demos; they're won on translating deep technical capability into an executive's P&L language. And before ChatGPT put conversational AI o

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