Praveen Maloo
Books
Read →Before the Word traces the extraordinary parallel between Sanskrit philosophy and the architecture of artificial intelligence. The Citation Economy is a practical guide to what AI systems say about your brand, and how to change it.
Photography
Gallery →Fine art travel photography: curated collections from 170+ countries for galleries and collectors.
About
I've spent 15+ years building products at the intersection of technology and human behavior, from leading Microsoft Teams through its growth to 100M+ daily users, to shaping AI/ML strategy at AWS, to founding companies that rethink how businesses understand their customers.
NextCorner was born when my car broke down in rural France. It's a travel app for spontaneous exploration. Corrily (YC W21) built price optimization for subscription businesses. unSurvey pioneered AI-moderated conversational research in 50+ languages before being acquired by G2 in June 2025.
When I'm not building, I'm writing or photographing. My book Before the Word traces the parallel between Sanskrit philosophy and the architecture of AI, from Pāṇini's generative grammar to the transformer attention mechanism. My latest, The Citation Economy, is a practical guide to what AI systems say about your brand, and how to change it. My camera has taken me to 170+ countries, always looking for the extraordinary hiding in the everyday.