When AI puts Gen Z in the C-suite
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WALL STREET JOURNAL — Zain Lakhani, 23, was still a teenager during the initial ChatGPT boom of 2022. After founding and selling a startup, he’s now the chief AI officer at software firm Pendo—a role he nabbed in part thanks to his youth
“He’s got experiences we don’t have. He’s got perspective we don’t have,” said Pendo co-founder and Chief Executive Todd Olson, 50.
Lakhani is a member of the class of “AI natives” comfortable playing and building with the AI tools that still seem foreign to those decades into their careers.
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