Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Max Abram is an investor at Scale Venture Partners, a VC firm with investments in companies like HubSpot, Box, DocuSign, and more. He was previously at Kayne Anderson's growth equity group. He holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a varsity lightweight rower. He is an endurance athlete, which comes in handy in venture. He spends free time reading fiction and explorin...

Svet Penkov is the cofounder and CEO of Efemarai, a platform to test and improve machine learning code. He is the chairman of the board at AI Cluster Bulgaria. And he has a PhD in Robotics and AI.   In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:  - Why we need ML testing  - ML testing methods  - How did he discover the problem that led to launching Efemarai  - The role of synthetic data in...

Sujith Ravi is the founder and CEO of SliceX AI, a platform that allows you to train and deploy AI models across devices and use cases. Previously, he founded and headed multiple ML teams at Google AI and Amazon Alexa. It spanned conversational AI, graph & deep learning, and on-device machine learning technologies. These products are used by billions of people in Search, Ads, Assistant, Gmail,...

Nathan Benaich is the founder of Air Street Capital, a venture capital firm investing in AI-first technology and life science companies. He is the coauthor of State of AI report, an annual report that analyses the most interesting developments in AI. He has degrees from University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How he got into VC - H...

Rob Toews is a partner at Radical Ventures, a VC firm that invests in world's leading AI startups. Rob leads their investment efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was previously at Highland Capital focusing on AI investments. He was in an operational role at Zoox, an autonomous vehicle company that got acquired by Amazon for $1.3B. He is an AI columnist at Forbes. He has a bachelors degr...

Helen and Dave Edwards are serial entrepreneurs. As a husband and wife team, they have built 5 companies together. They're currently the founders of Sonder Studio, a company focused on helping humans succeed in the digital age. In 2017, they sold their AI market research firm Intelligentsia to Atlantic Media.  In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:  - human centered design  -...

Mihail Eric is the founder of Pametan Data Innovation, a consultancy firm that helps companies deliver machine learning and data-driven solutions to their hardest problems with a special focus on NLP, recommendation systems, tabular data, and computer vision. He's also the founder of Confetti AI, the premier educational platform for practitioners learning the skills to succeed in their machin...

Debarghya Das is the founding engineer at Glean. It's an enterprise search startup that recently raised at a billion dollar valuation from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, and Lightspeed. He has previously held roles at Google and Facebook where he worked on their search products. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Key takeaways from being on the founding team...

Andy Petrella is the cofounder of Kensu, a data observability solution that offers companies the opportunity to monitor their data usage. He is the creator of Spark Notebook, an open-source software for data engineers and scientists using Spark and Scala. He is the author of the book Fundamentals of Data Observability. He has built a fantastic career in data over the last 16 years. In this episode...

Krishna Gade is the cofounder and CEO of Fiddler AI. They provide an explainable monitoring solution for production AI systems. Fiddler has been featured on Forbes AI 50 startups in 2020 and was awarded Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum. He has previously held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft, Twitter, Pinterest, and Meta.   In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: ...

Greg Tapper is the cofounder and CEO of PatternAI. They provide conversation intelligence for the enterprise. He was previously the founder and CEO of New Global, which he successfully sold to a large company after running it for 11 years. He's been a management consultant, most recently at McKinsey. He has degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard. In this episode, we cover a range of topics incl...

Ala Shaabana is the cofounder of Bittensor, an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized machine learning network. He has a PhD in computer science and has previously held roles at Instacart and VMware. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Shortcomings of centralized AI - How to decentralize AI research - Incentivized computer networks - What they're building at Bit...

Alessya Visnjic is the cofounder and CEO of WhyLabs, which is an AI and data observability platform. She was previously a CTO-in-residence at the Allen Institute. Prior to that, she spent 9 years at Amazon building various machine learning products.  In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:  - AI observability  - Being a founder  - Getting the first 5 customers  - How does an AI mode...

Rak Garg is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures focusing on companies in infrastructure tools, machine learning, and cybersecurity. He was previously a product lead at Atlassian and Redfin. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - how he got into venture capital - key learnings from working with startups - trends in the ML infrastructure space - generative AI - how content platfor...

Howie Xu is the VP of Machine Learning and AI at Zscaler. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of TrustPath where they built a product to transform security with ML. He's a guest lecturer at Stanford and serves on the boards of startups. He was an EIR at Greylock. He is the Founder of VMware networking team, which went on to build legendary products. In this episode, we cover a range of to...

Peggy Tsai is the Chief Data Officer at BigID, where they provide data intelligence that enables companies to know their data for privacy, protection, and governance. Over the last 15 years, she has held data leadership roles at S&P Global Ratings, Morgan Stanley, and AIG. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - data governance - building a data strategy - how to protect data...

Jay Madheswaran is the founder and CEO of Butler Labs, a platform that helps developers turn AI into easy to use APIs. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed, one of the most successful VC firms in the world. Before that, he was the first engineer at Rubrik, which went to become a multibillion dollar company. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - his learnings as the first en...

Jeremie Harris is the cofounder of Gladstone AI where they're working on AI safety and security. He's the host of the Towards Data Science podcast. He was previously the cofounder of SharpestMinds, a marketplace for one-on-one income share agreements. He was pursuing a PhD in quantum mechanics when he decided to jump into AI. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - AI sa...

Jon Cooke is the founder of Dataception. It's a consulting firm that helps organizations build data and AI solutions to accelerate decision making. He has previously held leadership roles in Databricks, PwC, and Rule Financial. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - data product pyramid - data product marketplace - data mesh - how business teams should communicate with data...

Oliver Hughes is the cofounder and CEO of Count. It's a collaborative data platform that helps teams work with data. He was previously at Tesco and graduated from University of Cambridge. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is data collaboration - How to build a collaborative product for ML teams - What he's building at Count - Key takeaways from being a founder...

Egor Gryaznov is the cofounder and CTO of Bigeye. It's a data observability platform that helps teams measure and improve data quality. Before that, he was at Uber where he scaled the company's first data warehouse, supporting thousands of internal users and mission-critical workloads. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Key takeaways on being a founder - What he&apo...

Fabiana Clemente is the cofounder and CEO of YData, a startup that's provides a data-centric platform to accelerates AI development by improving the quality of training datasets. She's a founding member of Synthetic Data Community and AI Infrastructure Alliance. You can check out Data-Centric AI community and YData's open source offering . In this episode, we cover a range of topics...

Ketan Umare is the cofounder and CEO of Union AI, a startup that's building a ML and Data Orchestration product powered by Flyte. They've raised $10M in funding led by NEA. Prior to this, he was at Lyft for 5 years where he created Flyte, an open source tool to automate ML and data workflows.  In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Creating open source tools - Launching...

Leigh Marie Braswell is an investor at Founders Fund, one of the most successful VC firms in the world. Prior to that, she was one of the first 10 team members at Scale AI. A startup which is currently valued at more than $7 Billion. She was an ML engineer at Google before that. She has a degree from MIT and loves to play poker. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Key learning...

Phil Howes is the cofounder and Chief Scientist of Baseten, an ML application builder for data scientists. They have raised $20M from top tier investors such as Greylock, Mustafa Suleyman, DJ Patil, and Greg Brockman. He was previously the co-founder of Shape, a people analytics platform acquired by Reflektive in 2018. Prior to that, he was an ML Engineer at Gumroad. He has a PhD in Mathematics fr...