On this special episode of What The Tech, we welcome a member of the Boast team onto the show: Mr. Shahed Khalili!
Shahed is Boast’s Chief Product and Technical Officer, where he’s leading the team that’s building our award-winning, data-driven R&D intelligence platform, using the latest in AI and ML to help our clients accelerate their innovation and extend their product runways.
At his core, Shahed is a dreamer, builder, and a seasoned operator who has made strides in the B2B SaaS space before joining Boast. Most recently, he helped grow Galvanize to unicorn status on its April 2021 sale to Diligent for $1B USD. He’s also been a two-time co-founder, an engineer, and a product manager throughout his career, and has gained a lot of insights about building powerful solutions that I can’t wait for him to share.
In this conversation, we dive in and understand where Boast has been and what’s in store as we continue to grow and help even more innovative businesses maximize their investments into critical R&D.
Advanced Data Analysis to Unlock Hidden Data Insights
Boast’s AI and ML driven platform integrates the key workflow, payroll and financial data necessary to give a comprehensive, holistic view into the true state of your research and development.
This empowers product development teams to better understand what activities may unlock R&D tax credits, what projects are giving the highest ROI and which members are driving the most innovation on your team.
It’s a technology breakthrough that empowers teams to better analyze their processes and ultimately build stronger solutions, while unlocking growth capital.
Top Advice for Aspiring Founders? Don’t Go It Alone!
As Shahed explains, there’s no reason to go it alone and build a new business or product in isolation. In fact, building a startup in a vacuum can actually be a recipe for disaster—from both a funding and a go-to-market perspective.
Even if you have a great idea and you believe in your business, you need complementary partners to tell the complete story of your innovation and market value.
From College to Tech Pioneer and The Birth of an Internet Startup
Shahed has had an entrepreneur mindset from the start, having played his first role in the startup space as part of his college co-op program back in 1998.
Since then, he’s rode many market waves, survived multiple recessions, and has emerged as a leader in product development with a global impact.
Now at Boast, Shahed is helping steer our award-winning technology platform to bring more innovation into the world R&D tax credits to “lift all ships” in the tech ecosystem.
Stream the full interview on Boast’s YouTube channel here.
