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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Luca Scagliarini, CEO of Expert System (Part 2)
Luca Scagliarini: With the growth of Internet and the subsequent expansion and explosion of social media, it became more and more important to have understanding, not only of what’s inside your company, but also of what’s happening outside. We expanded to industries like publishing. A few years later, we opened our first office in the
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Luca Scagliarini, CEO of Expert System (Part 1)
Artificial Intelligence is going through a renaissance, and we’re thrilled to cover the space. Here, Luca and I talk about the fusion of semantic and statistical methods in Machine Learning to achieve deeper intelligence with specific vertical workflows, vocabulary, and nuances. Very interesting conversation! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting strategically in how you’ve navigated the story so far? How many customers do you have now? Vincent Yang: I think we have four or five dozen customers. The growth rate is actually pretty fast. Sramana Mitra: What’s the pricing model? What’s the business model? Vincent Yang: The core of
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 5)
Vincent Yang: We use, what we call, topic modelling to analyze every single news. For example, is this company acquiring the other company? Is this news about conference sponsorship? How do we know how strong an implication is? We have no idea. That’s the point where we have to rely on machine learning. Machine learning
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’m going to start asking you very deep questions because I did a startup in the sales lead generation area back in 1997. It used NLP and the whole AI stream. It was a bit early. It was well before the Internet had completely established itself. I know a lot about this area
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year did you leave Summit to do this? Vincent Yang: I left Summit in 2012. I didn’t start the company back then. I actually went to Stanford Business School. I already had the idea. We raised some angel money. It was in Stanford where I started the company. We hired a bunch
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: That brings us to 2009? Vincent Yang: That brings us to early 2010. Sramana Mitra: Then what happens next? Vincent Yang: Then, I moved to Palo Alto. When I was in JP Morgan, my main job was to analyze companies. In particular, I developed a mathematical model to analyze public companies. It’s very
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 1)
I did a company in the sales lead generation and qualification space using Artificial Intelligence back in 1998. We were very, very early. It’s exciting to see the movements in the space, and how EverString is succeeding almost 20 years later. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where are you
