Guru Hariharan

Guru Hariharan Built and sold Boomerang Commerce to Lowe’s. CommerceIQ became a unicorn selling to brands like Nestlé and PepsiCo. Recently I handed the CEO role to Rahul Shah and stepped up to Executive Chairman. Along the way I’ve sat in pretty much every seat: founder, CEO, chairman, and the guy on the other side of an acquisition. I’ve raised a lot of money, closed a lot of enterprise deals, and made plenty of mistakes worth learning from. The thing I’m best at is making young companies credible to big enterprises. Turning a product pitch into a business case a CFO will actually sign. Naming a category people remember. Helping founders tell a story that lands with customers and investors. Lately I’m also back in build mode, and loving being an IC again. I build with AI every day: agents that run my own workflows, value cases that used to take weeks done in an afternoon, new ideas prototyped before they’re pitched. It’s the most fun I’ve had in years. These days I spend my time with founders, boards and investors, rolling up my sleeves on the hard stuff: going upmarket, breaking into the US, and raising the next round. If you’re building something hard in enterprise or AI, I’d enjoy hearing ab

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