Inside Merge: CEO Shensi Ding on API integration powering AI

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Merge recently launched Merge MCP helping AI apps understand everything about their customers. Today, Anika sits down with Shensi, co-founder and CEO of Merge, to dive into:

💡 How AI is unlocking more use cases for Merge

🛠️ Why she still codes as a non-technical founder who never worked as a software engineer

📩 How she and her co-founder Gil personally reached out to 10,000+ people to find their first engineering hires

🧠 What the Chief of Staff role actually means in a startup and how it prepared her to be a founder

💬 A raw and honest take on what it’s like to be a woman founder in tech

00:00 Introduction

01:18 Founding Merge

04:24 Founder philosophies around leadership and hiring

14:44 Understanding Merge's product and AI's impact

25:23 Hot seat

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