When industrial AI startup CVector meets with manufacturers, utility providers, and other prospective customers, the founders are often asked the same question: Will you still be here in six months' A year' It's a valid concern in an environment where the biggest, richest tech companies are luring top talent with eye-watering salaries and increasingly targeting rising AI startups with elaborate acqui-hire deals. The answer that CVector founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles give every time is also the same: They're not going anywhere. And that matters to their customers ' a list that includes national gas utilities and a chemical manufacturer in California ' which use CVector software to manage and improve their industrial operations. 'When we talk to some of these big players in a critical infrastructure, the first call, 10 minutes in, like 99% of the time we're gonna get that question,' Zhang told TechCrunch. 'And they want real assurances, right'' Zhang said he wanted to bring...
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