Samir Diwan
Samir Diwan is VP Product, AI Platform Core Experiences at ServiceNow. He previously co-founded Polly, where he served as CEO and CPO, and Projected Talent Inc. as CEO. Earlier, he was Product Partner at Madrona Venture Labs and held senior product and engineering roles at Microsoft.
Allen Institute Names Helen Protheroe and Arden Yang to Executive Roles; Qumulo’s Aaron Passey Returns as Engineering Lead
The Allen Institute appointed Helen Protheroe as executive director of global partnerships and philanthropy and Arden Yang as vice president of innovation, while Aaron Passey returned to Qumulo as an engineering leader. Other notable tech leadership changes include Kevin Goldsmith becoming CTO of DistroKid, Samir Diwan joining Madrona Venture Labs, S. Skye Yoden stepping down from PATH, and Lindsie Goss joining Outpace Bio.
Polly launches real-time trivia, polls and employee-award 'games' for Slack to boost remote-team morale
Seattle startup Polly launched a suite of real-time 'games' for Slack—including trivia, quick 'hot take' polls, and quirky employee awards—to help remote teams boost morale and social connection during the COVID-19–driven shift to working from home. The features are designed to be live, time-limited interactions that reveal results in Slack threads and complement Polly’s existing surveys, polls, analytics, and meeting tools.
Slack Wars
Slack, the messaging and collaboration tool for teams, is all the rage right now inside many companies, and it has some big new competition from Google, Microsoft and others. We're going inside this growing market today with our guest, Samir Diwan, the co-founder and CEO of Seattle startup Polly.ai, a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Hangouts Chat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Organizations
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ServiceNow VP Product, AI Platform Core Experiences 2025–present, Senior Director of Product Management, Platform 2023–2025 · current
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Madrona Venture Labs Product Partner 2022–2023 · past
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Polly Cofounder/CPO 2021–2022, Cofounder/CEO 2014–2021 · past
Education
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UW Foster School of Business MBA with Honors · 2011–2014
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McGill University Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering · 2000–2004
