Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

the incredible inventor: Deepak Sekar

29 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker introduces ProfGym, a platform that converts textbook material into high‑quality educational content by leveraging AI‑generated avatars of historic influencers such as Sacagawea and Aristotle. The narrative highlights the founder, Dr. Deepak Sekar (also spelled Sakar), noting his prior venture that was acquired by DoorDash, his portfolio of over 200 patents, and his personal use of the technology—sending investor updates via avatar‑based messages and even creating his own avatar. The speaker frames Sekar as an “incredible inventor” and a “fantastic human,” emphasizing both the technical novelty of ProfGym and the founder’s impressive credentials.

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ProfGym. ProfGym transforms textbook text into quality educational content utilizing AI-generated avatars depicting some of the world's greatest influencers. Not these influencers, but people like Sacagawea, Aristotle. And one of the reasons why I think ProfGym is so interesting is the founder, Dr. Deepak Sakar, previously founded a company that was sold to DoorDash. He has over 200 patents to his name, so he's an incredible inventor and just a fantastic human. I've so And I think a really, a cool fun fact is he sends all of his investor updates using their technology. So we'll get an update from Sacagawea, we'll get an update from Aristotle. Dr. Deepak has even gone so far as to make his own avatar.