Six Questions with Symbl's CEO Surbhi Rathore

Symbl CEO Surbhi Rathore shares her entrepreneurial perspective in this Q&A: her passion for building teams, solving problems at the intersection of AI and communication, and how empowering people drives both personal and company growth.

Six Questions is a Q&A-style interview series with our portfolio founders from their unique entrepreneurial perspective. Surbhi Rathore is the founder and CEO of Symbl "I am very passionate about building teams and bringing the right mix of people together to solve a problem. Seeing how this can empower and grow people, both personally and professionally, gives me tremendous joy. My purpose every morning is to make sure the experience of working in Symbl is truly one-of-a-kind in everyone's journey.” How do you explain your company to friends and family? We are building artificial intelligence that makes humans work smarter rather than replacing them. 😉 Businesses that are building collaboration products use Symbl APIs to extract contextual insights from voice, video, text conversation data and build cool experiences without spending time building custom ML models/teams. Symbl co-founders Surbhi Rathore and Toshish Jawale. (Symbl Photo) What do you like most about being an entrepreneur? What do you like least about being one? I am a first-time founder, and I love everything about taking an idea and building a product that drives value for people around me. The ability to influence how technology is shaping the future is the most exciting part of this journey. One challenge is how being a founder can overpower many personal decisions because nurturing this idea can be so consuming. At some point, you don't have a life except for the business you are running. Making space for me to keep my sanity and ground myself with people and family who are not in the same bubble is sometimes hard. What metric do you think about the most, and why? I think a lot about the different ways to measure product value, not just today but also anticipate a continued value as the market matures. This helps keep happy customers and cultivate the relationship and ecosystem that will go way beyond this company's lifecycle. What creative things do you do to develop a likable company culture

By Madelyn Rutter at TechNexus Venture Collaborative