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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Daisy Intelligence CEO Gary Saarenvirta (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Oct 26th 2019

Sramana Mitra: It’s consumer-facing merchandising. You’re not driving the ordering of inventory? Gary Saarenvirta: We do decide that also. We set the prices and we also do inventory forecasting and allocation. Those are the three core inputs – having the right product, right prices, and having the right inventory. Sramana Mitra: What kind of quantitative

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Oct 26th 2019

Sramana Mitra: In 1999, I started one of the first ever online fashion company. A very small subset of merchandise applies to me in a store. I’m a petite, dark-skinned woman with dark hair and dark eyes. I have a certain style. What I want, which is not possible to do in a physical store,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Daisy Intelligence CEO Gary Saarenvirta (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Oct 25th 2019

Gary is implementing AI concepts from his Aerospace industry background onto use cases in retail and insurance. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing you and Daisy Intelligence.  Gary Saarenvirta: I’m the Founder and CEO of Daisy Intelligence. Daisy Intelligence is an AI platform. We help our clients make smarter operating decisions. Our mission is to

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace to $10M

Posted on Friday, Oct 25th 2019

CEO Sal Akbani has bootstrapped Gateway Classic Cars to over $10 million in revenue. This is a great story of how a two-sided marketplace was masterfully seeded and scaled in a niche market. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Oct 25th 2019

Sramana Mitra: You explained to me the data structure. Can you talk about how the learning algorithm learns? Ashutosh Garg: That’s our secret sauce. We use recurrent neural network to model some of these things. Sramana Mitra: How much of this is pattern matching, statistical modeling kind of inferences versus expert system kind of inferences?

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Doug Atkin of Communitas Capital Partners (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 24th 2019

Sramana Mitra: You said you’ve invested in 10 companies from this vehicle. Could you talk about some examples? Specifically, talk about in what stage did you encounter them and what was it about what they had that called you to make the investment. I’m trying to understand how you evaluate investments. Doug Atkin: Let me

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462nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Oct 24th 2019

Today’s 462nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 24, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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462nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Oct 24th 2019

Today’s 462nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 24, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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