Asia Tech Podcast – Episode 114 – Tareef Jafferi – Founder at Happily.ai – Building Better Human Connections The Asia Tech Podcast had the pleasure of speaking with Tareef Jafferi, the Founder of Happily.ai. Happily’s mission is to create a happier workplace using behavioral science, technology, and fun. Happily.ai helps companies engage employees, drive a culture of feedback & recognition, create positive habits, manage talent, and more. With people analytics and artificial intelligence, Happily.ai helps managers, people ops, and leaders make better people decisions using real-time personalized insights and nudges. Some of the topics Tareef and I discussed: - Startup failure and the power of resilience and persistence - How continuous innovation and learnings make success more likely - Happily.ai’s mission to make workplaces happier - The impact of COVID on Happily’s mission - Approaching problems with optimism and believing that anything can be solved - People systems are outdated and why he does not mean the software - Modern organizational management is fundamentally flawed - The fact that workplaces are impacting mental health is unacceptable