Stu Sjouwerman

Stu Sjouwerman

Stu Sjouwerman is co-founder and CEO of ReadingMinds.ai, a pioneering AI-moderated interview platform for conducting sentiment analysis. He also is the founder and executive chairman of KnowBe4, the world’s largest cybersecurity platform that addresses human risk management. Sjouwerman is author of “Agent Powered Growth: Deploy AI Agents that Build your Marketing Pipeline 24/7” [Wiley 2026], which achieved national bestseller status, debuting at #17 on USA Today’s Bestselling Book List within two weeks of its release. A serial entrepreneur with decades in the IT industry, Stu was co-founder of Sunbelt Software, an award-winning anti-malware software company acquired in 2010.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), E-Commerce

Voice is the New AI Interface: Why the Next Great UX Won't Feel Like Software

April 22, 2026 at 3:11 pm

Retail has always been about conversation. Long before artificial intelligence, the best store associates knew the real sale happened in the exchange — the “what are you looking for today?” that turned a browser into a buyer. Yet somehow, as the industry raced to digitize everything, that conversational instinct got lost and replaced with menus,…