How a Father–Daughter Duo Is Redefining Revenue Intelligence With Human-Centered Agentic AI (Anoushka Ram Kumar & Ram Gunnison)

How a Father–Daughter Duo Is Redefining Revenue Intelligence With Human-Centered Agentic AI (Anoushka Ram Kumar & Ram Gunnison)

Author: Junaid Ahmed August 25, 2026 Duration: 39:38
What really happens when you build an AI startup with your dad? Not the Instagram version, but the friction, the boundary-setting, the late-night debates over product and sales — and the unfair advantages no traditional founding team can copy. In this episode of Hacks and Hobbies, Junaid sits down with Anoushka Ram Kumar, Yale-trained computer scientist and AI-native co-founder, and Ram Gunnison, battle-tested serial entrepreneur and former VP of IT at 1-800-Flowers, to unpack how they’re building Kaboom AI — a human-centered, agentic AI revenue intelligence system that actually gets used in the real world. They talk about what it means to mix fresh technical thinking with deep enterprise scars, how to keep humans at the center of AI for sales, why culture is a “pursuit of happiness” system and not a ping-pong table, and the hard rules they’ve set as family co-founders so that love, business, and ambition can all coexist.

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