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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

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Processing Billions of Messages: Gupshup's AI Journey

Code Story podcast episode S4 E15 features Beerud Sheth discussing how he built Gupshup into a global conversational AI unicorn processing billions of messages, inspired by the mobile revolution and text messaging as the lowest common denominator. Sheth, previously the founder of Elance (now Upwork), shares the creation story of Gupshup and his journey from MIT and Wall Street to entrepreneurship.

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Code Story podcast episode S4 E15 features Beerud Sheth discussing how he built Gupshup into a global conversational AI unicorn processing billions of messages, inspired by the mobile revolution and text messaging as the lowest common denominator. Sheth, previously the founder of Elance (now Upwork), shares the creation story of Gupshup and his journey from MIT and Wall Street to entrepreneurship.

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conversational-ai · startup · podcast · messaging · gupshup · entrepreneurship · mobile

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Beerud Sheth (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.9) · Gupshup (organization, 0.99) · Elance (organization, 0.9) · Upwork (organization, 0.9) · MIT (organization, 0.95) · Conversational AI (concept, 0.95) · Mumbai (location, 0.85) · Bay Area (location, 0.85) · Code Story (organization, 0.9) · Mobile Revolution (concept, 0.8)

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transcript · language en · status final

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claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 13 Aug 2026