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Forward
by Dawn
On Forward we talk with founders transforming industries and solving the world's biggest challenges and people who help them on their journey. Video versions of recent episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@forwardbydawn
Episodes
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CEO coaches and their value for a startup founder - Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs
We sat down with Cockroach Labs’ (last valued at $5B) Spencer Kimball to talk about the value of the CEO coach to a startup founder, the key factors making this relationship effective, and why being honest with your team is critical for the company’s success. Cockroach Labs is the creator of...
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Protecting private personal information - Patricia Thaine, Private AI
We sat down with Patricia Thaine to talk about the current state of the privacy space, identifying PII with high accuracy, generating synthetic personal information, and what’s the right culture for building a privacy-focused company. Patricia is the co-founder and CEO of Private AI. Started by...
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Building a software product loved by customers - Tom Lavery, Jiminny
We sat down with Jiminny’s Tom Lavery to talk about building a product loved by customers (Jiminny is rated 4.7), applying AI to analyze sales calls, customer success as a key differentiator, mortgaging a home to fund the business, and why it makes sense for the CEO to spend 60% of your time...
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Applying AI to natural resource investments - Adam Rozencwajg, Goehring & Rozencwajg
In this conversation with Adam, we managed to combine 3 of my favorite topics - AI, energy, and investing. We talked about applying AI to solve the oil wells’ productivity surge puzzle, building an ML system in the environment of an investment firm, Adam’s views on the solar, wind, and nuclear…
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GPT-4 and Plugins - Tomas Vykruta (ML @ Google, Founder @ EvolutionIQ)
We caught up with Tomas Vykruta (founder at EvolutionIQ, ex. Machine Learning @ Google) to talk about GPT-4 & Plugins. We discuss vision, input vector size, plugins, and the path to fostering a competitive environment with multiple options of foundation models for developers to choose from. 0:00…
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Improving health outcomes with data and AI - Dave DeCaprio, ClosedLoop.ai
We sat down with Dave DeCaprio to talk about predicting preventive interventions in healthcare, designing for explainability, bias and fairness, as well as building a domain-specific language to operate the platform, working on the human genome project and the forthcoming healthcare data...
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Getting the mining industry ready for the energy transition - Andrew Job, Plotlogic
We sat down with Plotlogic’s Andrew Job to talk about mining industry challenges, strategic reserves of key green metals, mixing advanced sensors with AI to boost mining productivity, and extending the life of existing mines. Plotlogic has taken the mining industry by storm over the last 12…
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Unlocking billions of value for life science companies with medical analytics - Dipanwita Das, Sorcero
We sat down with Sorcero’s extraordinary Dipanwita Das to talk about working with T-1 Pharma and early-stage biotechs, building the largest open-access scientific literature database, 10x-ing productivity, and surfacing strategic signals with the medical analytics platform powered by the latest...
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Boosting B2B GTM efficiency with tailored data sources and AI - Leena Joshi, CEO and co-founder, CloseFactor
We sat down with CloseFactor’s Leena Joshi to talk about boosting GTM efficiency with tailored data sources and machine learning, partnering with Sequoia Capita (seed/A), doubling LaunchDarkly reps productivity, and building a team at your startup. Leena is the CEO and co-founder of Closefactor....
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Using AI to build better AI - Yonatan Geifman, CEO/founder of Deci
We sat down with Deci’s Yonatan Geifman to discuss applying AI to build better AI - at the edge and in the cloud and boosting inference performance by 3x-10x. We also talked about NAS, dealing with uncertainty in AI, how 22-23 environment is better for AI startups than 21, recruiting design...
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Building Trust Into AI With Model Monitoring, Explainable AI, and Analytics - Krishna Gade, Founder and CEO, Fiddler
We sat down with Fiddler’s founder and CEO Krishna Gade to talk about explainable AI, lessons from Microsoft, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Bing vs. Google, raising $45M and what should entrepreneurs building in AI today focus on. Fiddler is a pioneer in enterprise Model Performance Management....
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Future of ChatGPT and LLMs: market landscape, use cases, opportunities for startups - Ankur Patel
We caught up with Ankur to talk about all things ChatGPT. Ankur’s note: https://www.ankursnewsletter.com/p/nine-chatgpt-products-we-can-expect 0:00 CGPT advantages over the previous generations of LLMs 3:30 RLHF as the optimization method behind CGPT 7:13 Products to expect 12:55 CGPT challenges...
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Enabling circular economy - Mikela Druckman, Greyparrot. Global flows of waste, recycling, building a waste analytics company, and the future of the circular economy.
Mikela is the co-founder & CEO of Greyparrot, the leading AI waste analytics platform for the circular economy on a mission to increase transparency and automation in waste management and unlock the financial value of waste. Greyparrot’s vision is to create a world where every piece of waste is...
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Defined.ai’s Dr. Daniela Braga on building the world’s largest data marketplace, raising $80M+, working with IBM and Microsoft, and building an AI hub in Portugal
Our guest today is Daniela Braga, the CEO and founder of Defined AI, the world’s leading online marketplace, where AI professionals can commission, buy, or sell AI training data, tools, or models. We sat down with Daniela to talk about building the largest data marketplace in the world, GDPR,...
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Glean AI’s Ankur Patel on helping businesses manage costs with AI, culture at Bridgewater, running an AI-powered hedge fund, and offering spend analytics as an API
We sat down with Glean AI’s Ankur Patel to discuss managing business costs with AI, running an AI-powered hedge fund, culture at Bridgewater, building the remote-first company, and the future generative AI. Ankur is a co-founder and head of data at Glean AI. Glean uses natural language processing...
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Regression Games Aaron Vontell on building AI bots to compete in games, raising a $4M seed in a week from NEA and A16Z, and the future of AI in gaming
We sat down with Aaron to talk about building bots to compete in games, Raising a $4M seed in a week from NEA and A16z, building an AI-powered company, and the future of AI in gaming. Aaron is the Founder and CEO of Regression Games, a company making artificial intelligence in games and esports...
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Formic’s Saman Farid on reinvigorating manufacturing with robotization - Labor shortages, China, Robots as a Service, Incubating businesses, Building a $100B company
Our guest today is Saman Farid, the CEO and founder of Formic. Formic is accelerating the adoption of automation across small to mid-sized U.S. manufacturers and boosting productivity by removing the risk, complexity, upfront capital, and expertise that typically exist as barriers to onboarding...
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EvolutionIQ’s Tomas Vykruta on bringing AI-powered claims guidance to the insurance industry
Our guest today is Tomas Vykruta, the CEO and founder of EvolutionIQ. EvolutionIQ created the world's first fully AI-driven claims guidance platform for the most sophisticated insurance carriers in the world, making insurance more fair, transparent, and affordable. They raised more than $26M from...
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Amira Learning’s Mark Angel on helping kids become better readers with AI
Our guest today is Mark Angel, the CEO of Amira Learning. Amira is the first intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses & coaches to accelerate reading mastery. Proven to double the pace of learning, Amira helps K-3 students become motivated, masterful readers. The company recently...
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Rhino Health’s Ittai Dayan on unlocking healthcare data collaboration with Federated Learning
Our guest today is Ittai Dayan the Founder and CEO of Rhino Health. Rhino Health provides AI/data-science developers and medical researchers with a platform that unlocks data collaborations without sharing data or compromising data privacy. The Rhino Health Platform is powered by Federated…
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ReSpo.Vision’s Pawel Osterreicher on applying computer vision to push the boundaries of sports analytics
Our guest today is Pawel Osterreicher, the CEO and founder of ReSpo.Vision. ReSpo.Vision disrupts sports with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Their Computer Vision algorithms capture detailed 3D positional data from sporting events and turn it into practical insights & visualizations,...
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Conversight's Ganesh Gandhieswaran on bringing an AI-powered analyst assistant to every employee in the organization
Our guest today is Ganesh Gandhieswaran, the CEO and founder of ConverSight. ConverSight offers a conversational intelligence platform that uses Natural Language Processing and machine learning to converge the distance between humans and data. ConverSight’s AI business assistant, Athena, connects...
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Winn AI’s Eldad Postan-Koren on guiding sales teams in real-time to win more deals
We sat down with Eldad to talk about boosting sales teams' win rates with real-time AI guidance, approaching 200 sales leaders to build the product, and lessons from the Israeli Navy. Real-time guidance is the future of professional communications and Winn is an excellent case study on starting a...
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Naveen Rao on building the world’s first AI chip and bringing Machine Learning to every industry
Our guest today is Naveen Rao, the CEO and founder of Mosaic ML. The MosaicML Cloud makes it easy to train models of any size on any number of GPUs, helping teams achieve more accurate results faster and seamlessly scale workloads with distributed training methods. Naveen previously built the…
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Neural Concept’s Pierre Baqué on reimagining industrial design with generative AI
Our guest today is Pierre Baqué, the CEO and founder of Neural Concept. Neural Concept uses Deep Learning to provide industrial companies with lightning-fast numerical simulations and radically innovative designs. Where traditional physical solvers would take days or weeks to evaluate a single...
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One AI’s Amit Ben on enabling developers to unlock the power of NLP
Our guest today is Amit Ben, the CEO and founder of One AI. One AI is an API-first Language AI service built for developers. Their product-ready APIs, no-code Language Studio, and vertically pre-trained models allow every developer to deliver the power of NLP inside their applications in no time....
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Jarvis ML's Rakesh Yadav on applying AI lessons from Google to boost revenues in ecommerce, hospitality, and beyond
Our guest today is Rakesh Yadav, the CEO and founder of Jarvis ML. Jarvis ML’s mission is to be the most accessible and easy-to-use end-to-end machine learning platform. As a fully managed MLaaS solution, Jarvis ML enables companies to deploy a revenue-generating intelligence engine to their...
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Abzu’s Casper Wilstrup on bringing explainable AI to life sciences, pharma, and beyond
Our guest today is Casper Wilstrup, the CEO and founder of Abzu. Abzu was born in 2018 in Barcelona and Copenhagen when seven co-founders set out to challenge the paradigm of traditional black-box AI. Today, Abzu has customers among the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, biotech enterprises, and...
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Nuclia’s founders on bringing the new generation of enterprise search powered by AI
Our guests today are co-founders of Nuclia. Eudald Camprubí, the CEO of the company and Ramon Navarro, the CTO. Nuclia is an easy-to-use API service to build AI-powered search engines capable of processing every type of data in multiple languages. Eudald and Ramon have been working together for...
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Graft’s Adam Oliner on accelerating AI adoption by embracing the Modern AI paradigm
Our guest today is Adam Oliner, the CEO and founder of Graft. Graft is a cloud-native platform that empowers organizations to leverage the most advanced AI techniques to unlock the value of text, images, video, audio, and graphs. Before co-founding Graft, Adam was a Head of Machine Learning at...
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HiddenLayer’s Chris Sestito on emerging threats to modern AI systems and how to address them.
Our guest today is Chris Sestito, the founder and CEO of HiddenLayer. HiddenLayer helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Chris is a certified ethical hacker and worked in various senior roles in threats...
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Cornerstone AI’s Mike Elashoff on using AI to produce high quality data in healthcare.
Our guest today is Mike Elashoff, the co-founder and CEO of Cornerstone AI. Cornerstone’s goal is to give everyone the data science superpower of clean data, without the manual work it takes to get there. They are focused on empowering the healthcare industry by using machine learning to convert...
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Cogniteam’s Yehuda Elmaliah on building autonomous robots faster.
Our guest today is Dr. Yehuda Elmaliah, the founder and CEO of CogniTeam. CogniTeam is based in Petach Tikva, Israel, and has been developing artificial intelligence technologies for robots for over ten years, working with world-leading companies on mapping, navigation, and autonomous...
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Quin AI’s Gonca Gulser on boosting e-commerce revenues with AI.
Our guest today is Gonca Gulsar, the co-founder of Quin AI. Quin is an Audience Engine that understands real customers, their needs and their intentions, Quin helps merchants to drive conversion and increase revenue. E-commerce is an industry rich with real-time data, but processing it…
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Sidekick’s Chris Ake on building an AI assistant.
Our guest today is Chris Ake, the founder and CEO of Sidekick AI. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sidekick helps people manage their meetings by augmenting the process with AI. Scheduling a meeting can be a frustrating experience, and Sidekick aims to streamline this process with natural...
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Elemeno’s Lucas Bonatto on empowering MLOps teams and operationalizing AI.
Our guest today is Lucas Bonatto Miguel, the founder and CEO of Elemeno AI. Elemeno provides an industry-leading ML-Ops platform that allows dэtэ science professionals to accelerate and automate their machine learning life cycles. Elemeno products and services are used by industry leaders,...
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On Forward we talk with founders transforming industries and solving the world's biggest challenges and people who help them on their journey. Video versions of recent episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@forwardbydawn
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