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Buddy.AI’s Founder Turns His American Dream into a Movement Impacting 22 Million Lives

We see Buddy as the child's learning assistant, growing up with a child from 3 to 4 years old and teaching multiple courses over many years.
When Ivan Crewkov's smart speaker startup crashed and burned after Amazon launched Echo, he thought his American dream was over. Moving from Siberia to Silicon Valley only to watch his company Cubic.AI collapse wasn't exactly the California dream he'd imagined. Little did he know that his daughter's struggle to speak English in a Mountain View preschool would spark an AI revolution that's now teaching 22 million children annually and has raised $13 million in venture funding. "It was a disaster," Crewkov recalls about his first startup's demise in 2014. "It made zero sense to compete with Amazon and Google; we ended up selling the company." Just one week before their planned Kickstarter launch, Amazon had unveiled Echo, instantly rendering Cubic.AI obsolete. But sometimes, the best i
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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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