Mayank Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Gather (gatherhq.com), an AI-native research platform that lets brands have real conversations with real people at scale, combining the depth of qualitative research with the confidence of quantitative data in a single pass. Gather has conducted over 200,000 AI-led interviews for brands spanning B2C and B2B, including Fortinet, SailPoint, Envoy, and Bagel Brands. Before Gather, Mayank co-founded Pulse, a crowdsourced intelligence platform for technology executives (Y Combinator), and held product leadership roles at Gartner, Capriza, and Microsoft. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BEng from McGill University.