Senior Vice President of International, Resources Connection
Search every verified Venkat Ramaswamy interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Venkat Ramaswamy, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and Senior Vice President of International at Resources Connection, has been active in discussing co-creation, AI, and startup strategy. In a 2025 podcast, he and co-author Krishnan Narayanan promoted their book "The Co-Intelligence Revolution," arguing that organizations and educators should shift from a "knowing it all" mindset to a growth mindset of learning, and that human intelligence is distinct from AI because it is grounded in subjective, lived experience. Ramaswamy also praised the concept of "jugalbandi" between humans and AI systems, citing an example of Indian developers building a WhatsApp-based tool for farmers to access government schemes in local languages. In a separate 2025 appearance, Ramaswamy advised Indian founders building AI startups to show venture capitalists a working prototype rather than just a pitch deck, noting that the process of raising funds and building a product is "getting compressed very fast." He stated that more successful startups are now demonstrating a prototype that investors can interact with, creating a "very different experience for the venture capitalist." Earlier, in 2019, Ramaswamy briefed media alongside Edelweiss chairman Rashesh Shah about asset funds, noting that insurance companies and pension funds, which have long-term horizons, are increasingly investing in India.
“So I would say something very simple, and let me give you the reasoning behind this which comes from what I'm seeing in terms of pitch decks.”
“In the old model startups would raise a round of funds and then build the product, but I'm finding more successful startups are building prototypes first because you can very rapidly build prototypes today.”
“The more successful startups, when they are going to raise, are actually showing a working prototype already — the venture capitalist can actually play with it.”
“I would urge people: you used to have a whole thing where you build the deck and then use the funds to build the prototype — this is getting compressed very fast.”
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Venkat Ramaswamy at the launch of his book, The Power of Co-Creation.
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