Sramana: How far did you take the e-commerce business? Ratmir Timashev: The good thing is that we decided to build our online store on the Microsoft Windows NT platform, which was a business operating system and the first stable server. It became Windows 2000 and is now known as Windows Server 2012. My partner became a top expert on Windows NT
Atanas Kiryakov: If you want to solve this problem of massive data with any relational database, you’d probably need to hire several hundred people. Currently, we have just two employees working to maintain this data warehouse in our offices. Even at this scale, the ratio between the effort that we need to do and the effort
Sari Factor: It’s also an excellent solution for acceleration. We have situations where students in middle school might be ready for geometry, which is typically taught in the 10th grade. But there is no Geometry curriculum or teacher at the middle school level. They might take a course from a high school teacher administering the course from the
Sramana: What year did you leave school to start your first business? Ratmir Timashev: I left in 1995. Sramana: In 1995 the Internet was starting to take off. What kind of business did you start? Ratmir Timashev: It was the early days of the Internet. I started that business with Andrei Baronov who has been
Sramana Mitra: Let me drill down a bit. I don’t know if you’re familiar with my writings on this subject. I’ve written extensively on this topic. What I’d like to do is take three of your customers from three different domains, and do some use cases on how you’re applying AI technology, that you built
K-12 has been a challenge for EdTech companies to build businesses in. Typically, buying cycles tend to be very long. See where Edgenuity is getting traction, and what trends are emerging in the space. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to your company. Sari Factor: After a short
You have read some of the Unicorn Series pieces already: Tableau, FireEye, RightNow, Palo Alto Networks and several others. Here’s a company that gets little coverage but is performing at Unicorn levels. Sramana: Ratmir, let’s start our discussion by reviewing your background. Where are you from? What are the roots of your entrepreneurial journey? Ratmir
Semantic technologies are gaining ground in the world of Big Data. This interview focuses on some applications in various parts of the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing the audience to Ontotext. Tell us who you are, where you’re based, and what kind of work you are doing. Atanas Kiryakov: I founded Ontotext in the year