Final Round AIFinal Round AI is an AI-powered career development platform designed to improve your chances of landing a job offer. You can use Final Round for mock interviews and as a copilot during live interviews.Final Round AIMichael Guan is the CEO of Final Round. Prior to Final Round, Michael sold CYNK, a carbon credits trading platform. That was not enough to get rid of the founder bug in Michael, which is why he kept dreaming of starting up “an iconic consumer company” and founded Final Round AI.Who is the CEO of Final Round AI? Can you share a little about Final Round AI?Winning in consumer markets requires execution momentum that speaks for itself. The Final Round team impressed us with industry-leading metrics across distribution, engagement, and monetization.What makes this team special? How does the product solve customer problems? A majority of adults struggle with job interview anxiety. This creates non-optimal hiring outcomes for both job candidates and employers. Final Round solves for this with a mock interview platform that can replicate real-life interview experiences and an interview co-pilot that can augment real-life interview performance, decoupling interview readiness from job readiness for the better.Building industry-leading interview preparation software requires an interview data moat. Final Round has gathered thousands of hours of real-life interview data by empowering job candidates and scaling adoption for its live interview copilot.What differentiates the product? What attracted you to the market?We are actively investing in AI-enabled consumer markets. Historically, there were attempts to crack interview preparation with marketplaces connecting employees with job candidates, but they failed to scale. We believe that AI can alleviate scalability challenges by removing the need for human mock interviewers, unlock creative wedges into the market (live interview copilots), and enable multipronged business models (B2B and B2C). How can I get in touch with Final Round AI? Please feel free to reach out to
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Final Round AI is an AI-powered career development platform designed to improve your chances of landing a job offer. You can use Final Round for mock interviews and as a copilot during live interviews.Michael Guan is the CEO of Final Round. Prior to Final Round, Michael sold CYNK, a carbon credits trading platform. That was not enough to get rid of the founder bug in Michael, which is why he kept dreaming of starting up “an iconic consumer company” and founded Final Round AI.Who is the CEO of Final Round AI? Can you share a little about Final Round AI?Winning in consumer markets requires execution momentum that speaks for itself. The Final Round team impressed us with industry-leading metrics across distribution, engagement, and monetization.What makes this team special? How does the product solve customer problems? A majority of adults struggle with job interview anxiety. This creates non-optimal hiring outcomes for both job candidates and employers. Final Round solves for this with a mock interview platform that can replicate real-life interview experiences and an interview co-pilot that can augment real-life interview performance, decoupling interview readiness from job readiness for the better.Building industry-leading interview preparation software requires an interview data moat. Final Round has gathered thousands of hours of real-life interview data by empowering job candidates and scaling adoption for its live interview copilot.What differentiates the product? What attracted you to the market?We are actively investing in AI-enabled consumer markets. Historically, there were attempts to crack interview preparation with marketplaces connecting employees with job candidates, but they failed to scale. We believe that AI can alleviate scalability challenges by removing the need for human mock interviewers, unlock creative wedges into the market (live interview copilots), and enable multipronged business models (B2B and B2C). How can I get in touch with Final Round AI? Please feel free to reach out to Michael Guan over
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