Decisions That Made Me: Sameer Vuyyuru
The Bottom Line
BBC
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Sameer Vuyyuru has spent his career at the cutting edge of technology. From building semiconductors at Texas Instruments to launching an AI-startup in Shanghai, he’s now chief artificial intelligence and product officer at Capita, the outsourcing giant. An opportunity, he says, to introduce disruptive technology inside an established company. The intrapreneur talks to Evan Davis about the power of AI and the influence his grandfather has had on his life.
(Image: Sameer Veruyyu Credit: Capita)
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| 0:35.8 | Hello, technology and artificial intelligence in particular |
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| 1:07.8 | I'm Evan Davis and in this episode of the decisions that made me, the series of |
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| 1:17.2 | from Samir Vyuru, who spent his career at the cutting edge of technology. From building |
| 1:23.2 | semiconductors for Texas instruments to launching an AI startup in Shanghai, he's now chief |
| 1:30.3 | artificial intelligence and product officer at Capita, the outsourcing giant. An opportunity, |
| 1:36.6 | he says, to introduce disruptive technology inside an established company. But behind his drive |
| 1:43.4 | to disrupt lies something quieter, |
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