Inside Merge: CEO Shensi Ding on API integration powering AI

Merge recently launched Merge MCP helping AI apps understand everything about their customers. Today, Anika sits down with Shensi, co-founder and CEO of Merge, to dive into: 

💡 How AI is unlocking more use cases for Merge 

🛠️ Why she still codes as a non-technical founder who never worked as a software engineer 

📩 How she and her co-founder Gil personally reached out to 10,000+ people to find their first engineering hires 

🧠 What the Chief of Staff role actually means in a startup and how it prepared her to be a founder 

💬 A raw and honest take on what it’s like to be a woman founder in tech 

00:00 Introduction 

01:18 Founding Merge 

04:24 Founder philosophies around leadership and hiring 

14:44 Understanding Merge's product and AI's impact 

25:23 Hot seat