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TK Kader founder of ToutApp gets acquired by Marketo and discusses how to survive when competitors proliferate and market crashes how do you survive? Jul 31, 2017

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If you look up the word hustle in wikipedia, You might find a section on today's founder, Tawheed Kader (TK). TK shares his honest thoughts on how he successfully sold his company ToutApp to Marketo in 2017. This did not come without challenges. Even while he was growing fast and at $5m in recurring revenue difficulties came from stock market crash in early 2016. Emergence of highly funded competitors in the category made it tough to fundraise and TK had to layoff a large portion of his company. This is a perfect example of making lemonade out of lemons. TK takes us through how he came out on the other side despite opposing external forces.

TK's twitter: https://twitter.com/tawheed

Shruti's twitter: https://twitter.com/atshruti

Shivon Zilis discusses how she became part of the machine intelligence movement Jun 27, 2017

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On our podcast from a few weeks ago on All things AI we heard from Lucas Baker of Google Deepmind on his perspective on current state of AI. Today we chat with Shivon Zilis who is an investor at VC firm Bloomberg Beta and gives an investment perspective on AI. Shivon became somewhat of a celebrity in AI after she first launched the state of machine intelligence in 2014. She has continued to add to that over the years. Let’s have a chat with her about investing in machine intelligence. Follow us @atShruti and @Shivon

Tim Campos former CIO of Facebook discusses strengths of an open and honest culture Jun 05, 2017

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Tim Campos, former CIO of Facebook talks about importance of culture at a company, impact of a life coach on his career and challenges he faced as a CIO of two Fortune 500 companies - Facebook and KLA Tencor

Lucas Baker a AlphaGo expert at Google Deepmind talks All about AI May 01, 2017

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With a breadth of experience unusual for a young engineer, Lucas Baker has traveled a winding path through the tech industry leading from Stanford through Square, Y Combinator, Pinterest, Google, and most recently DeepMind. Find out what he's learned along the way and what he thinks about the future of machine learning.

Leslie Miley makes it against all odds. Life story of director of engineering at Slack. Apr 17, 2017

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In this podcast we'll hear the story of a college dropout, but not the glamorous Steve Jobs-type story you might expect. Learn how Leslie Miley worked his way up through engineering roles at Walmart, ODesk, Apple, Google, Twitter, to become director of engineering at Slack, one of Silicon Valley's most beloved startups, find out his struggles along the way and what he's up to now at Venture for America.

Lukas Biewald founder of Figure8/Crowdflower on how bigger companies use AI Apr 10, 2017

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Lukas Biewald, founder of Crowdflower, will be talking about the Future and problems in AI, training data sets, and how AI is used at bigger companies.

Justin Kan discusses selling Twitch to Amazon for one billion dollars Mar 27, 2017

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In the space of nine years, Justin Kan pivoted from aimless post-collegiate soul-searching to a massive exit on his company, Twitch, which he sold to Amazon for $1B. Before that he sold his company Kiko Software on ebay! Justin went from being a partner at Y-Combinator to starting his own incubator Zero-F.

Justin Kan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/justinkan

Shruti's Twitter: https://twitter.com/atshruti

Auren Hoffman gives unconventional wisdom on how he sold LiveRamp for $310 million to Acxiom Mar 20, 2017

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Auren Hoffman is a founder of Safegraph and previously LiveRamp. LiveRamp was acquired by Axiom for $310m in 2014. Auden shares his views on why smart people make wrong decisions with optionality, how focus in life important, and how to pick markets for your new venture.

Auren twitter: https://twitter.com/auren

Shruti twitter: https://twitter.com/atshruti

Esther Dyson is an angel investor in hundreds of companies, wants to see a reform in healthcare, and talks about her training to live on space and retire on Mars Mar 13, 2017

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Esther Dyson trained to be in space and wants to retire on Mars. Esther's global perspective has made her an effective investor and valued board member. A medical scare led her to start Way to Wellville (http://waytowellville.net), a health intervention program for American health system to get healthier. Esther launched her entrepreneurial career in a unique way by acquiring a company she was working for.

Esther Dyson's twitter: https://twitter.com/edyson

Shruti Gandhi's twitter: https://twitter.com/atshruti

Sean Byrnes founder of Flurry gets acquired for $300m+ after nearly going insolvent 3 times Mar 13, 2017

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Sean Byrnes is currently a founder of OutlierAI. Previously, he was a founder of Flurry. Flurry was founded during a recession and almost insolvent 3 times until 2014 when it was acquired by Yahoo for $300-$350m. Sean is now a CEO of Outlier.ai which helps businesses make better decisions using AI. Sean shares his insights on staying afloat, keeping up with trends, and his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence.

Sean's twitter: https://twitter.com/sbyrnes

Shruti's twitter: https://twitter.com/atshruti

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