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An incredible interview with Thiru Saravanan, the Co founder of XR labs, a company embracing AR VR and XR technology to develop use cases outside of gaming! Some of the topics we discuss - - Starting a business while in college - Working on new technology - Customer buy in for new technology - Importance of demos - B2C vs B2B - Early stage opportunity acceptance Follow us: https://linktr.ee/eitfproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=2324fbd2-1004-43f3-83fb-32b205317ad5
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Chapters

1. Episode trailer (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Thirukumaran Saravanan (00:02:27)

3. What was your first accomplishment and your first failure at your first job? (00:05:29)

4. What are the first steps an individual has to take, to start a company while in college? (00:09:25)

5. How important are demos for startups? (00:12:13)

6. What gives you confidence to stay the course without pivoting in a relatively new space? (00:15:15)

7. How do you educate the customer on what they should be looking at, with your technology, for their needs? (00:21:06)

8. Just like how the pandemic shook up multiple industries, what is the next big change you see coming for AR, VR and XR technology? (00:25:19)

9. B2C or B2B for your company? Why? (00:29:06)

10. How does feature building work in your company? Is it on a per customer basis or for the entire customer base? (00:32:48)

11. How has your company built itself up to accept opportunities that may come your way, that you are not ready for? (00:36:22)

12. Do you get questions about explainability and safety of the technology you are working with? (00:38:40)

13. How did you manage the transition form working on the technology to managing people to work on the technology? (00:45:19)

14. How important is it to define the roles of individuals in an organization, clearly? (00:49:20)

15. What is your definition of success? (00:52:04)

16. Thank you, Thiru! (00:53:58)

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