During the Female Founders Conference Kat Manalac invited three YC founders on stage to share their experiences of fundraising. The founders are Elizabeth Iorns of Science Exchange, Vanessa Torrivilla of Goldbely, and Erica Jensen of The Flex Company.
Aug 16, 2017Adam Coates is the Director of Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab. The lab’s mission is to develop AI technologies that will have a significant impact on the lives of at least 100 million people. We spent a good chunk of this episode talking about Adam’s work in speech to text and text to speech. If you want to learn more you can check out research.baidu.com.
Aug 11, 2017Padmasree Warrior is the CEO of NIO. During this interview with Anu Hariharan at the Female Founders Conference she shared her thoughts on autonomous vehicles and gave advice from her career as an engineer, manager, and founder.
Aug 9, 2017Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware. She’s a three time founder and shared advice with the attendees of the 2017 Female Founders Conference.
Aug 8, 2017Jeff Dean is a Google Senior Fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. He spoke to the YC AI group this summer. Watch the talk and read his slides here.
Aug 7, 2017This is Jessica’s talk from the 2017 Female Founders Conference. She highlighted nine key differences that “unicorn” founders must fulfill. They must: 1. Be lucky 2. Have the right motives 3. Hit a big need 4. Do something basic 5. Be willing to work on a dubious idea 6. Not be afraid of a big idea 7. Be driven and resilient 8. Focus: Life’s Work 9. Be able to evolve into a manager
Jul 24, 2017Doug Eck is a research scientist at Google and he’s working on Magenta, a project making music and art through machine learning. If you want to learn more you can check out Magenta.Tensorflow.org.
Jul 21, 2017