Darkroom 2025: Year in Review

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If you're not using AI, like you're not going to be here in a year. The internet is changing fundamentally. What does the internet need to look like when you no longer have one website for every company? Well, Rashad, thank you for joining me. I want to do a quick background just on you. Uh, we didn't do this the first time we did this podcast. We didn't do that. And I want to make sure people understand kind of your history because I think it it plays into the story and the narrative that I think you have to

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really share. Um so Rash is the CEO of Vermont previously at Live Ramp. Vermont is creating AI powered customer journeys for commerce businesses but it sounds like the vision is to go much more broad and I want to talk about that today. Um the business has been on a tear particularly in the e-commerce ecosystem. Um raising from Greylock Bane most recently VMG partners in a 455 million series B. Congratulations. And so you know obviously I think you've done an exceptional job fundraising building the company developing

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momentum. And then previously you were at Live Ramp working in the privacy space. Um, and I think that, you know, has had an influence on the solution that you guys bring to the table with Vermont. Um, can you maybe expand on on on what Vermont does? Yeah, that's a better summary than I usually give. So, thank you for that. And yeah, it's exciting. I get to talk about what we do off the heels of the fundraising announcement, which are always like high momentum moments. So um definitely want to make sure that that