Hi, this is Greg Kielstrom. Welcome to season three of the Agile World, where we discuss customer

employee experience, organizational and workforce transformation, and how business can adapt and

continually improve at an Agile age. The Agile World podcast is brought to you by tech systems,

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you can go to my website at theagile.world and read my latest articles or get a copy of my latest

book, The Agile Workforce, now available on Amazon and other retailers. My name is Greg Kielstrom,

and I'm the host of the Agile World podcast. Today we're going to talk about using AI with lean

principles to achieve greater success. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome

Lumet Patel, SVP Growth Together Labs, and best-selling author of Lean AI. Lumet, welcome to the show.

Excited to be here. Thanks for having me, Greg. Yeah, looking forward to it, and why don't we

start out by you telling a little bit about your background as well as where you currently are?

Yeah, so hi everyone. My name's Lumet Patel. I'm the current leader,

Senior Vice President of Growth at Together Labs. Together Labs is a, it's a metaverse,

most popular gaming app is called MV, IMVU, where we have millions of users that create

virtual avatar identities and interact with creating different friends from around the world

and having shared experiences, virtual experiences, and where MV has been around for over 15

years, and it's one of the top free grossing social networking apps in the App Store. So definitely

seen a lot of growth there, and I've been with that company for over five years, and prior to that,

I've worked with a number of different startups for a little last 20 years, and my role has always

been around joining startups to really help figure out how we can grow the business primarily in

the area of growing users and revenues. So it's all around user acquisition, retention, and monetization

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