A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | Surojit Chatterjee, Founder of Ema
May 11, 2026
Surojit Chatterjee, former Google product leader and ex-CPO of Coinbase turned founder of Ema, builds AI employees for enterprises. He tells the story of a Hitachi HR deployment that proved scale and credibility. He explains Ema’s agent teams, enterprise-grade security choices, and go-to-market tactics that landed Fortune 500 deals.
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Hitachi Deployment Was The PMF Moment
- Hitachi deployment across 55,000 employees proved Ema's scalability by automating HR operations in production.
- Surojit says full production deployment (not pilot) and observed outcomes unlocked credibility that sped up other Fortune 500 deals.
AI Employees Replace Human Glue
- Ema builds teams of agentic AI employees that connect to many systems and orchestrate workflows across them.
- Agents read raw data anywhere (SharePoint, DBs, warehouses) and coordinate via an orchestrator to replace human "glue" between apps.
Global HR Use Case With 65 Countries
- A professional services client with 250k employees across 65 countries automated HR questions and multi-step workflows like relocations.
- Ema reduced request turnaround from days to minutes and automated complex sequences touching payroll, tax, travel and access.