ATLAS: Powering Accounting Firms Of The Future | Stellaris ft. Arpit Maheshwari & Alok Goyal

Arpit Maheshwari, Co-founder & CEO, Atlas joins us to share his thoughts on talent gap in the accounting industry and how Atlas powers independent accounting through AI and helps them scale.

Hosted by Alok Goyal from Stellaris.

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In this conversation, we cover:

00:00 Coming up

00:56 Introduction

02:14 Switching from investor to founder

03:54 Investor background: asset or liability

04:59 Choosing Jagmal as a co-founder

07:06 Why accounting, why now?

10:44 Are the Big 4 a threat?

13:01 How Human+AI creates disproportionate value

15:52 AI augmenting humans or vice versa?

17:51 Verified data as a moat

20:43 Are frontier labs a threat?

24:12 What are your short-term goals?

25:25 Stellaris’ Investment Thesis