In middle school, Bhavin Shah had breakfast with Steve Wozniak. That’s not something most sixth graders can claim.
Growing up in the shadows of tech giants like Apple and Intel that were just a stone’s throw away, Shah spent his childhood breathing the air of innovation that blanketed Silicon Valley in the ‘80s and ‘90s—a place where entrepreneurship wasn’t just encouraged, it was often assumed. Still, his first career wasn’t in technology. It was in toys.
That detour turned out to be formative. Designing for delight taught him how people engage with products—a lesson most enterprise software developers skip. It also planted the early seeds for Moveworks, the company he would go on to found after selling his previous startup, Refresh.io, to LinkedIn.
Today, Shah leads Moveworks as CEO, where he’s rethinking how work gets done with language-first AI. There, he’s making support invisible and helping people help themselves, instantly, naturally, and in plain English (or over 100 other languages).
By the time AI became the buzzword of the enterprise world, Moveworks was already operating in its own lane. Shah’s team had built the foundation themselves—training models in-house, annotating data by hand, and tuning performance long before off-the-shelf tools were an option. That head start made the platform battle-tested and enterprise-ready. Today, global brands like Toyota, Spotify, Broadcom, Databricks, and Marriott turn to Moveworks not just to answer questions, but to solve problems in real time.
Inside the company, Shah has built a culture designed for speed, ownership, and experimentation. Decisions are pushed to those closest to the data. Standups focus on what was tested, what was learned, and what’s worth doing again. Employees are encouraged to act quickly, make small bets, and build intuition through iteration. Bureaucracy is treated like a bug to be fixed.
Looking ahead, Shah isn’t slowing down. He envisions Moveworks as the connective tissue of the modern enterprise—an AI copilot embedded across every system and workflow, designed to make every employee more capable and every process more intuitive. It’s an ambitious vision, but for someone who once sat across from Wozniak as a kid, it’s a fitting next chapter in a lifelong pursuit of building what comes next.
