Kunal Gupta
Founder & Board Member at Nova
Kunal Gupta is an entrepreneur, investor and author.
He founded and scaled a global digital advertising AI company as Chief Everything Officer for 15 years, with teams and clients across 30+ countries.
Born, raised, and educated in Canada, Kunal studied software engineering from the University of Waterloo and artificial intelligence from the University of Oxford. He currently lives between Lisbon, Portugal and Sydney, Australia.
Follow his weekly newsletter and blog at http://howto.live.
Key moments
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- 3:06 How Meditation Helped Kunal Conquer Burnout
- 7:49 From Burnout to Introspection: The Power of Knowing Yourself
- 11:13 Kunal’s First Ever Blog Post: A Time Audit That Changed Everything
- 15:17 AI Hack of the Week: Summarising PDFs with ChatGPT
- 17:44 The Value of Prompting ChatGPT to Learn About Yourself
- 20:20 Why Kunal Wrote 2034, And What’s Already Coming True
- 22:24 The Rise of the Digital Aristocracy and AI’s Social Divide
- 29:21 Designing AI for Seniors: A Huge Untapped Opportunity
- 31:19 Why AI Literacy is the Next Big Equalizer
- 35:00 Experimenting with Kunal’s AI Clone—Live on Air
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