Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | Surojit Chatterjee, Founder of Ema

About this episode

Surojit Chatterjee discusses his journey from Google and Coinbase to founding Ema, focusing on AI agents and their impact on Fortune 500 companies.

Surojit spent 14 years at Google building mobile ads into a $100B+ business and then took Coinbase public as Chief Product Officer in 2021. In early 2023, before "agent" was even a word in AI papers, he started Ema in stealth—betting on a future where teams of AI agents would replace the "human glue" inside Fortune 500s. In this episode, Surojit breaks down how a Hitachi deployment across 55,000 employees became Ema's true PMF moment, why he spent the first year obsessed with SOC 2, ISO 42001...

People in this episode

Guest: Surojit Chatterjee

Topics covered

• AI agents
• Fortune 500
• product market fit
• technology deployment
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• AI agents
• Fortune 500
• Surojit Chatterjee
• Ema
• Coinbase
• Google
• product market fit
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Coinbase, Google, Ema, Hitachi

Books & works: SOC 2, ISO 42001

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