Ashish Thusoo

Energizer
DISC Type : I

Founder & CEO at CurieTech AI

San Jose, California, United States

Overview

A serial entrepreneur and tech pioneer, Ashish Thusoo is the Founder & CEO of CurieTech AI. He previously co-founded Qubole, pioneered the cloud data lake, and co-created Apache Hive at Facebook. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his expertise spans AI agents, big data, and cloud platforms.



While at Facebook, Ashish co-created Apache Hive, the open-source project that brought SQL to Hadoop and was pivotal in democratizing access to big data analytics.

Personality Overview

Imaginative

Informal

Full Of Energy

Unlike C or D types, they are vocal with their opinions but not so much with their questions.  They are always positive and upbeat, so take their promises with a pinch of salt. They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships.

Topics They Care About

AI-driven Integration
His current venture, CurieTech AI, builds AI agents to automate and accelerate IT integration tasks, particularly for platforms like MuleSoft.
Tech Entrepreneurship
Having co-founded two major companies, Qubole and CurieTech AI, he often speaks on podcasts about his journey and learnings in building technology businesses.
Cloud Data Lakes
He co-founded Qubole, a company that pioneered the concept of a cloud-native data lake platform for large-scale analytics and machine learning.

Media Appearances

ET in the Valley: Ashish Thusoo, Co‑founder and CEO, CurieTech AI. Featured in Economic Times (ET) – Morning Brief Podcast

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Work History

7-2023
Founder & CEO at CurieTech AI
3-2021 - 6-2023
GM AI/ML - SageMaker low-code/no-code, EdgeML, HealthAI, Marketing Intelligence, Fraud Detector at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
9-2011 - 10-2020
Co-founder/CEO at Qubole
11-2008 - 9-2014
Hadoop Hive Committer, PMC member and ASF member at The Apache Software Foundation
11-2008 - 11-2009
Hadoop Hive Project Lead at The Apache Software Foundation

Education

1996 - 1997
M.S. from University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992 - 1996
B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

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Insights For Selling To Ashish

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Talk anecdotally about the customer experience that your product offers
  • Talk about their team and how your product will help them do things better and easier
  • Be friendly and entertaining in your conversation

DONT's

  • Don’t push them to make a decision too fast, let them get comfortable first
  • Avoid ifs and buts, don’t talk too much about the risks etc.
  • Don’t be too formal, focus on building comfort and trust

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Ashish is

  • Relationship and rapport can play an important role, sometimes more than the other factors.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Ashish

  • They will probably never say no directly, you have to make that decision yourself.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Ashish move?

  • They are not the quickest decision makers, their friendly attitude could be misleading.
  • Can Ashish take some risk or not?

  • They may take certain risks that they deem unlikely of personal repercussions.

You And Ashish

Personality Compatibility


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