Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 8)

SM: What is your distribution of workers? How many people are in Corvallis and how many people are in Barcelona? FM: We have 9 different offices in the world with 150 employees. Sixty-two percent of our people are in the States, the rest are in Europe.

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Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 7)

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Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 5)

SM: Let’s say I am wearing a blue shirt which works really well with my skin color. Are you able to figure out that somebody who looks like me likes to wear that shade of blue shirts? FM: If we have a picture of you we can find at least 25 relevant attributes, include what

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Deal radar 2008: Veoh

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