This 28-Year-Old AI Founder Thinks His Customer Service Startup Can Beat Out Companies 10x His Size

If the streaming giant completes its Warner Bros. purchase, Bela Bajaria is poised to become Hollywood’s most powerful woman. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

New billionaire Jyoti Bansal left Delhi with a few hundred dollars and built two billion-dollar companies, including Harness, which just raised $240 million at a huge valuation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Founded just two years ago by second-time founders, Decagon’s AI agents are used by more than 100 companies to handle customer service tasks. But can the young, hungry team keep up with well-resourced incumbents? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The former New York City mayor, a longtime backer of historically Black colleges and universities, has a new initiative to support young Black students. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In a year marked by setbacks for female employment and advancement opportunities, the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women managed to exert their power — on philanthropy, AI, finance and entertainment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Curt Garner, Chipotle’s president and chief technology officer, helped boost the burrito chain’s online sales from just 5% to more than a third of total revenue. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ali Ansari’s decision to turn micro1’s AI recruitment assistant into a data labeling business spiked the company’s valuation from $80 million to discussions at $2.5 billion. Now he’s working on cornering the market for humanoid training data. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The president’s oldest son once shunned his father to loaf as a vagabond in Colorado. He eventually came home, joined the family business and is amassing the kind of fortune that would make his father proud. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Atomic energy is back, thanks to the ravenous demands of AI, favoritism from Trump, and the zeal of young entrepreneurs raising billions to build mini-reactors. The upside is unlimited. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

ElevenLabs’ computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother. That’s both a blessing—its 30 Under 30 alumni founders are now both billionaires—and a curse for the four-year-old company. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.