AGL 300: Mona Akmal from Falkon AI

About Mona Falkon CEO and Co-founder Mona Akmal is a product and engineering veteran who builds resourceful, kind, and output-driven teams that create and scale success-enabling products. With a passion for crafting elegant solutions to technically difficult problems, she has grown teams, businesses, and many products at Microsoft, Amperity, Code.org, and Zulily. The impact of Mona’s work includes ramping from $0 to $11M in ARR and 15 household brands as happy customers at Amperity; from 10M to 100M students learning computer science on the Code. org platform; and from 1M to 1B docs in the cloud with OneDrive and Office. Today We Talked About Mona’s background Data Useful data Automation Positive Emotional connection with tasks Impact to the business of automating a task cost of errors Task must be low cognition or must have lots of data for ML training AI Wars Root cause analysis Leadership Cult Leaders Authenticity Servant Leadership NO MANAGERS – Everyone is an individual contributor Highly Collaborative projects No performance review Feedback training Challenger Program Connect with Mona LinkedIn Website I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Leave me a tip $ Click here to Donate to the show A2 Hosting I’ve been using A2 Hosting for several years.  They offer state of the art SSD hosting for all of their plans.  Their sites are super fast and easy to setup.  I rarely need support, but when I was migrating my sites to a larger plan I used their support services and they were phenomenal.  I highly recommend A2 hosting for all of your hosting needs.  And I also recommend everyone to have a personal website. If you’re in technology and looking for a job and don’t have your own website, I probably wouldn’t hire you.  Just sayin’. Please use my affiliate link when signing up. https://www.ageekleader.com/a2  The expert guest was booked via The Expert Bookers, www.expertbookers.com