Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: QuillBot CEO Rohan Gupta (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. What is the trajectory of your company? How did you get started? Where does the AI expertise come from? Rohan Gupta: It’s a stereotypical startup story. My co-founders and I were in school. My co-founder, the CTO, is a college dropout. My third co-founder was one year out of school and he

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: QuillBot CEO Rohan Gupta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. I have had a blog for 17 years. I’m always a bit annoyed by the rubbish that gets produced out there. Rohan Gupta: I am too. As a company that started content marketing, we need to eat our own dog food and produce content in a very thoughtful way. Sramana Mitra:

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: QuillBot CEO Rohan Gupta (Part 1)

Rohan discusses AI-empowered writing as an emerging field. The company has 12 million users and has recently been acquired by Course Hero. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Quillbot.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Zohar Bronfman, CEO of Pecan.ai (Part 3)

Zohar Bronfman: Lastly, you also want to compute the label. The label basically means whether this customer has churned 30 days later. To generate the label, the platform will automatically take this transaction and identify whether there has been a churn event.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Zohar Bronfman, CEO of Pecan.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to back up a moment and ask you to describe your process of arriving at that collection of use cases. What were the drivers? What was the process of arriving at that? Zohar Bronfman: On one end, we wanted something that is rich in data, easy to connect to the business

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Zohar Bronfman, CEO of Pecan.ai (Part 1)

This is a terrific PaaS company in the making with substantial predictive capabilities. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Pecan.ai. Zohar Bronfman: I’m from Tel Aviv. Prior to founding Pecan along with my co-founder Noam, I spent most of my days in the academia. I did two PhDs

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Salil and Kiran Pande, Co-Founders of VMock (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is happening in the algorithm? You are processing tons of resumes and training your model to determine what are good ways of representing information. You have a database of skillsets. Your model understands what’s a good way of representing that skillset. When you process resumes, you can figure that out. Is that

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Salil and Kiran Pande, Co-Founders of VMock (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Between 2009 and the time you raised your seed financing, you figured that piece out. You figured out that you were going to go after the US career development offices and you were going to build this product in India. Kiran Pande: Yes, he was leaning towards having the engineering team from people

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