Delivering Decision Intelligence Based on the ‘Why’ with Ajay Khanna, Founder & CEO at Tellius
Hashmap on Tap Ep. 112
“We call this category decision intelligence and that’s where we are in the journey to create awareness around this category, but more importantly, what value you can bring in terms of the speed or of the access to their [customers] own data.” — Ajay Khanna, Founder and CEO at Tellius
Tellius is on a mission to accelerate the journey from data to decisions by augmenting human expertise and curiosity with intelligent automation. Tellius was founded in 2016 and its vision is, “that anyone can ask questions of their business data and instantly get a rich and profound understanding of their business.” They believe in a future where, “you can move seamlessly and effortlessly between exploring data, discovering unseen critical insights, developing new hypotheses, and acting on data-driven answers to drive business outcomes.”
Ajay Khanna, Founder and CEO at Tellius, joined Hashmap on Tap podcast host Kelly Kohlleffel over a cup of Dalgona coffee to discuss how Ajay started Tellius and how they go beyond data analytics to provide the ‘what’ and ‘why’ to make easier and better business decisions. Prior to starting Tellius, Ajay also led Amdocs and Celcite where he and his team launched a real-time, self-optimizing network solution. Listen in to this episode to hear why you need a VC that connects to your vision, the criticality of velocity and speed, balancing product readiness with customer acquisition, and the importance of making new mistakes, not the same old ones.
Hear Ajay’s perspectives on:
- Co-founding Celcite in 2004
- The biggest challenges and benefits of trying to create a product company out of a consulting services company
- The genesis of Tellius
- His definition of decision intelligence
- How to make data teams actionable
- Advice for new product companies
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