Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after practically three years as the corporate’s GM of generative AI and income acceleration, in accordance with a LinkedIn publish Aggarwal revealed Wednesday.
“I’m happy with the pioneering work our crew did in generative AI from its earliest days,” Aggarwal stated in his publish. “We constructed what is perhaps the world’s first large-scale generative AI merchandise — launched to tens of 1000’s of sellers, used lots of of 1000’s of occasions, driving a 4.9% enhance in pipeline technology.”
Aggarwal performed a notable function in AWS’ current push into generative AI. In the LinkedIn publish, he talked about his contributions to AWS’s AI basis fashions, Bedrock AI growth platform, and Amazon’s business-focused generative AI assistant Amazon Q.
Aggarwal plans to “return to his roots” and launch a brand new firm, he stated in his publish — however didn’t present any particular particulars.
Aggarwal is not any stranger to entrepreneurship. He launched Localytics, a cellular analytics and messaging platform, in 2009, previous to becoming a member of AWS. Localytics raised greater than $69 million in enterprise funding earlier than Upland BlueVenn acquired it in 2020. Aggarwal left the corporate in 2017.
Aggarwal later based Demand Sage, an AI-driven gross sales analytics platform, in 2018. Demand Sage went on to boost $3 million in enterprise capital earlier than exiting to Snap in April 2021. Aggarwal remained at Snap as head of product and development within the R&D group earlier than leaving to hitch AWS in 2022.
TechCrunch has reached out to Aggarwal for extra info and AWS for remark.
