MoneyNeverSleeps: Deb Pratiher, Quest Labs and Driving UX with User-Owned Data

Deb Pratiher is the co-founder and CEO of Quest Labs, building infrastructure enabling organizations to leverage data in a privacy-preserving manner to unlock powerful user experiences.

Quest Labs is also one of the 12 founding teams forming the Techstars Web3 accelerator class of 2023.

Deb Pratiher is a product leader and engineer with experience building and scaling data infrastructure and systems at big tech companies. She is passionate about AI and web3 and the intersection of both. Prior to starting Quest she worked and researched at Nvidia, Visa, Tesla, and Carnegie Mellon University, as she was chosen for the highly selective Kleiner Perkins Fellowship Program.

In this episode, Deb and Pete Townsend speed-run through her life experiences that brought her to the point of co-founding Quest Labs, before we dig into why the world needs what Quest is bringing to market right now. We also talk through the interplay of owning your own data on this big wonderful creation called the internet, and how that drives the network effect that will deliver the future that Quest is running toward.

KEY QUOTES:

Deb Pratiher on why she was drawn towards becoming a startup founder:

“I realized that as a founder, I get to build the world I want to see and at the same time, help others make money.”

Deb Pratiher on getting together with her co-founder:

“I said, ‘I’m gonna work with you if you can build this.’ And that’s how it started. He could build and I could sell, and we could make it happen for the business. So we just built and shipped a product in two months.”

LINKS:

Learn more about Quest Labs

Connect with Deb Pratiher on LinkedIn and Twitter

Follow Quest Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter

Episode title inspired by ‘Footprints’ by A Tribe Called Quest

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