character.ai: Defining Consumer AI for the world

Join us for an evening with Karandeep Anand, CEO of character.ai, one of the most-loved consumer AI products in the world, with tens of millions of people forming daily connections on the platform. It's category defining and the first one to innovate in Consumer AI at a global stage. We'll go beyond the surface: how character.ai is building at the frontier of AI entertainment, what it takes to earn genuine user love and retention at massive scale, and how the team is navigating the hardest questions in Consumer AI, from multimodal experiences and monetization to defensibility and habit formation. Karandeep brings a rare vantage point, having scaled consumer and business products at Meta, Microsoft, and Brex before taking the helm at character.ai. From building products people return to every day to shaping the next act of entertainment, this conversation will unpack the inflection points, trade-offs, and insights defining that journey. Who Should Attend: Founders and senior operators building and scaling Consumer AI products. ​​​About Lightspeed: Lightspeed is a global multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations in Enterprise, Consumer, Health, and Fintech sectors. Over the past two decades, Lightspeed has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 500 companies globally, including Anthropic, Mistral, Pika, Suno, Emergent, Sarvam, Zepto, Nutanix, Razorpay, and OYO.