Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Hussein Kanji of Hoxton Ventures was recorded in January 2018. Hussein Kanji, Partner at Hoxton Ventures, is based in London and the primary focus is on European ventures. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you acquainted
John Roese: Not only do I think that there is a huge opportunity here for entrepreneurs to take a business process and apply machine learning, but there’s also a fantastic job market that once you do it, the people you sell it to are the IT people who are looking for relevance as they move
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Sramana Mitra: What have you concluded, through your various assignments, in terms of process? What processes have worked for you? What are examples of best practices? Anita Sands: Let me share two. They’re related. As I look back on all of the various processes that we put in place to try and work through innovation,
Sramana Mitra: Let me ask the question in the context of non-Indian and non-Israeli founders. We also talk to a lot of European investors. One of the things I’m hearing is, there’s a real optimism right now in France. Paris is the story of 2017 as one of the investors based in London quoted recently
John Roese: I would argue that the other two types of AI are much more important even though they’re much less visible. In addition to AI to improve the human condition, the second domain that we think is probably significantly more important and probably more valuable is applying artificial intelligence to transform every single business
Sramana Mitra: What you said reminds me of an anecdote. We have a close relationship with Intuit. This is probably a few years ago. Snapchat was incredibly hot then. I was talking to the Chief Innovation Officer of Intuit. He said, “In our innovation program, a project like that came up. We chose not to pursue