Yoky Matsuoka, currently CTO at Nest, has been described as “Silicon Valley’s most in-demand robotics professor.” This episode of Udacity Talks presents has Sebastian Thrun and Yoky Matsuoka together in an unscripted conversation powered by questions from Udacity students. She is a MacArthur genius grant winner, a co-founder of Google...
Artificial Intelligence / Startups
25 May, 2017
Kai-Fu Lee said the 50% of all current jobs will be replaced by AI in 10 years and warned about AI oligopoly by big companies and propose minimal stipend for unemployed. He is optimistic that China will rise to the top in the field of AI. It’s also interesting to...
Artificial Intelligence / Startups
28 Apr, 2017
Speaking of chatbots, here’s an interesting video about the opportunities in that space. Startups featured in this video: http://poncho.is https://ghostbot.burnerapp.com http://www.donotpay.co.uk https://botlist.co/bots/573-hm https://www.onsequel.com https://www.motion.ai https://chatfuel.com https://digitalgenius.com https://api.ai https://chatbotsmagazine.com https://botlist.co http://venturebeat.com/events/
13 Apr, 2017
Bill Gross founded a lot of startups and incubated many others. He got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others and it surprised...
Artificial Intelligence / Startups
13 Apr, 2017
Dr Fei-Fei Li recently joined Google as Chief Scientist of AI and Machine Learning. Her primary areas of research are in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and cognitive and computational neuroscience. She has published more than 150 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences and invented ImageNet and the...
An Annapolis startup is taking the Magic Mirror and Alexa to the next level by combining the two. Cofounders KC Beard and Max Randall are rolling out a product called the Daptly Display that adds new features around the voice control assistant. They developed the idea while attending college together....
20 Mar, 2017
What makes Silicon Valley a hub for startups and innovation? What created it? And what can other cities and locations do to foster more innovation? When I was working as an evangelist for Microsoft, these questions came up a lot. There was always a civic leader, politician, policy maker, etc who...
15 Mar, 2017
If you’re in need of some inspiration, check out this list compiled by Evan Carmichael on the seven movies that every entrepreneur should watch.
13 Mar, 2017
Here’s an interesting interview with Eric Schmidt about his experience in rapidly scaling up companies. Fun Fact: I have a friend who used to work with Eric’s brother and I said hello to him once via speakerphone. This was 1996 and I did not realize the enormity of the moment...
13 Mar, 2017
Here’s an interesting montage of interviews with the founders of AirBnB.
