Sramana Mitra: You’ve created all these heuristics and you categorized on the basis of that. How many such heuristics do you have? Ashutosh Garg: That’s the beauty of AI. You can’t do it manually. Today, there’s a million different roles in the industry. We can’t do it manually. We use deep learning to model these
Sramana Mitra: B2B need less money, I think. Doug Atkin: It all depends. If you’re building a business like an analytics package which you’re selling to the big banks, you need a decent amount of money to build something of industrial quality. A lot of these things take a bit more money. Sramana Mitra: The
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Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a few questions to clarify how your algorithm is working. What is the database of candidates that you’re working with? If it’s a large enterprise, are they starting with a database of candidates that exist within the enterprise, and are you supplementing that with data from some other sources?
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Doug Atkin was recorded in July 2019. Doug Atkin, Managing Partner at Communitas Capital Partners, has extensive experience in FinTech and this conversation explores the nuances of that sector.
This is one of the best TLAI interviews I have done. Ashutosh has founded two AI-driven companies, so have I. We kick around heavy-duty material. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Eightfold.ai. Ashutosh Garg: I got my PhD in AI from the University of Illinoi – Urbana
Sramana Mitra: How do you find and recruit these developers who are very important to your success? Paul Kellenberger: Over the course of the last three or four years in the education industry, there’s a set of events and a lot of conferences that we go to where both developers as well as end users
Sramana Mitra: In terms of customer acquisition, what is working for you? Anders Ankarlid: We have a reward program. We have ambassadors that we don’t pay. If they like our products, they can get discounts. We are doing Google Ads and Facebook marketing. Facebook marketing has shifted a lot into being really competitive.