Kesava (Kesav/Keshav) Dinakaran

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203 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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DGTL Voices with Ed Marx · Millions of Faxes (ft. Kesava Dinakaran) · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And I ended up basically after that realizing, okay, like,

Do I really want to go to college was the question I was asking because I just fell in love with everything that was happening in Silicon Valley and so decided not to do it.

And so my first job, I guess, without college at a high school was founding Lumini.

I was wandering for a few years, essentially interested in this idea and this research of how do you get machines to control machines?

Interestingly enough, the house I lived in,

produced several billion-dollar companies, including one in healthcare called Ambiance.

And so Nikhil and Mike were both my roommates for a while, for over three years, in fact, but was really sort of wandering in this idea of how do you get machines to control machines?

How do you essentially remove very, very mundane, boring work

from humans because I felt at the end of the day that we as humans were becoming slaves to computers instead of actually computers being the ones that supercharge us.

And so I was really excited by this idea of how do you essentially get rid of all the work that you shouldn't be doing on a computer and letting you actually pursue

what we as humans are meant to do, which is think strategically, do creative things, pursue ambitious, aggressive things at scale.

And so I was wandering for a few years and in that same timeframe, had a pretty serious family health event in 2023.

And I guess for the first time as a young person in some ways, experiencing what it's like to go through

healthcare as a journey.

Thankfully, everything was okay in the grand scheme of things after all the amazing support.

But just the journey that I went through and the way it shook our family was so, so meaningful that I was just like,

this is something I can completely get obsessed with and think about for a very long time.

Primarily motivated by the idea of not wanting other people to go through a similar experience.

And so it was then sort of figuring out, okay, I'm interested in this idea of how do you get machines to control machines?

And then

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