Man who invented business chat in 1997 raises $10.3M to kill the chat window
Med1_Ai · x · 2026-10-28
Rob LoCascio, who invented the business chat window at LivePerson in 1997, says he's now trying to kill it: the best interface to AI was never a chat box — it's you. His new company raised $10.3M to make humans AI-native and authentic, betting that the most valuable dataset in AI is you, and that you should own it.
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