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▶ 6:58 · $UAL · The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Cresta CEO Ping Wu
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The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Cresta CEO Ping Wu

2026-02-09 · 2 company · 4 thematic
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ping wu

Ping Wu is CEO of Cresta, an AI platform for contact centers. He spent 14 years at Google, including 5 years leading Google Cloud AI and co-founding Google Contact Center AI. He became Cresta CEO after serving as interim CEO.

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“United Airlines for example is our one of our uh customers and we have a multi-year um partnership with them. So we're very deep with them. So every um you know 9,000 agents is deployed on Qua. So we have assistant AI system that help them…”
—ping wu

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