Rudy Lai
Enterprise AI founder/CxO. Experienced home cook (Cantonese/Modern European/Italian), NLHE poker player , #menswear retiree , first time skier , and budding Norwegian speaker .
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Experience
15+ years of building technology businesses. Expert at launching new products with unique branding in AI and data. As a leader, my strengths are storytelling, strategy, sales, fundraising, and recruiting; as a builder, I can ship copy, design, product, infra, pipelines, prompts, and models.
2020 — Present
CEO and Co-founder of Tactic
Tactic helps B2B businesses target the right audiences, by combining, enriching and reformating their customer data using no-code AI.
Used by 20+ enterprise customers, including GoCardless, Ably, Capgemini and Adobe. Raised $5M+ from great partners like Index Ventures and Visionaries Club. Built a team of 30+ Tacticians, who joined us from Palantir, Spotify, Spendesk, Lyst, and more.
2012 — 2019
Managed P&L and delivered growth for AI products, ranging from building new teams to managing $100M+ ARR, at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merill Lynch.
Worked on dynamic pricing, CRM, personalisation, algorithmic trading + high performance computing. CS @ Imperial.
In the press
Writing
- Lessons learned building an AI startupComing Soon
- Cheapest way to scale to $1M ARR: a financial modelComing Soon
- 5 database solutions for retrieval augmented generation (RAG)Coming Soon
- Hello, world!Nov 2023
- Why do your target accounts suckNov 2023
- Active listening in B2B salesApr 2023