For women building AI startups, finding community has been the key to success

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For Saumya Bhatnagar, being the only woman in a room is far from a novel experience. An engineer by training and currently the co-founder and chief product officer at AI sales rep startup Jeeva, she remembers being the sole girl in her high school's 170-person coding class — and that none of her male peers would sit next to her.