Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Jack Porter, CEO of Razorthink (Part 1)

We hear a lot about deep learning algorithms and their applications on very large data sets. This interview delves into a company and its customer base that works in that area. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Jack Porter: I’m the CEO of Razorthink. We

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about your company. You’re a venture-funded company. You’ve raised a substantial amount of money. How long have you been around? Stuart Wall: We launched in 2010. We, initially, were under a different business model. We pivoted to where we are now in 2012. Our investors are Google Ventures, Spark

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of metrics, how many businesses have adopted this technology in your customers. Secondly, are there other competitors? Is there a broader adoption of this kind of technology that you’re seeing? Stuart Wall: In terms of total adoption, we have about 7,500 clients and a broader number of locations under those clients.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost (Part 4)

Stuart Wall: Even prospective employees look for your reviews before making a decision to apply. We think it’s really important. The only way to get a great reputation online is to know who your end customers are and ask them to share their feedback. We think we’re the best solution for that. Regardless of whether

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Given that, what does it take for you to sell? You probably have some large customers but you’re also selling to a lot of small businesses. Stuart Wall: Yes, we started with small. My first customer was my older sister who runs a pottery studio in Indiana. My grandmother and aunt are users.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying is that for all these decisions, which are often manual decisions working off a salesforce.com system or any other CRM system, you work with heuristics and logic such that your intelligent agent is making judgement calls on what actions need to be taken and actually triggering those actions directly?

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost (Part 1)

Virtual Marketing Assistant sounds like a dream. Signpost is making it real. This is a great story about a very promising company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to Signpost. What do you do? What kind of customers do you work with? What trends do you align with? Stuart Wall: Signpost is an

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IBM’s Answer to Growth is Elementary – Watson

According to a MarketsandMarkets report, the global artificial intelligence (AI) market is estimated to grow at 53.65% annually from $419.7 million in 2014 to $5.05 billion by 2020. The growth in the industry is attributed to the deployment of AI technologies in retail, finance, and healthcare sectors. IBM (NYSE: IBM) is targeting this high growth

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