Kanishk Parashar

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Hey, I am Kanishk, co-founder and CEO of Playbook. I started out my career as a software developer who loved creating amazing experiences for my users. I spent time at eBay, Paypal and a series of startups programing websites and iPhone apps. One day, I got an idea to start my own company. The first one was called Coin - it was an electronic credit card all-in-one. You could securely store all your cards in one card and use it everywhere payments were accepted. Kind of like Apple Pay before it came out. Coin was acquired by Fitbit and lives on as Fitbit Pay! But I wasn't done yet, next I started RCI Navigator which allowed institutional investors to allocate and manage risk for their private assets. We worked with some of the largest investors on the planet like Aussie Super, which manages $300B in assets. Navigator was acquired by Addepar and is growing rapidly as Addepar's second flagship product with over 250+ RIA/MFO/BrokerDealers on the platform. AND I still wasn't done yet! With the release of generative AI, it presented a new opportunity to create something groundbreaking. The key insight we got early on was that Gen AI was going to be applied to operational efficiency, not

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