Why I Chose Paris as a Hub for Facebook's Research Lab

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I moved back to France four years ago. When I was still at Facebook, Facebook decided to start and to grow a research lab in Paris. The reason is so more, not like six years ago, six, seven years ago, Google just had acquired DeepMind in the UK. And so this is when Yell LeCun was able to convince Facebook to start this lab inParis. So it's a huge research lab, the biggest for Facebook outside of the US from far. And maybe one of the biggest in the world outside of the U.S across companies probably.

Today, we’re excited to get to know Alexandre Lebrun, CEO and Cofounder of Nabla, a personalized AI assistant for doctors. Before founding Nabla, Alex was the Head of Engineering at Facebook AI research for almost four years, and is a seasoned entrepreneur, having sold his previous companies Wit.ai, an AI platform that makes it easy to build apps that understand natural human language, to Facebook in 2015 and VirtuOz, a customer service chatbot, to Nuance Communications in 2012.

In this episode, Alexandre shares his experiences after 22 years and founding 3 startups, why proprietary data is more important than ever for defensibility, tactics on GTM and customer focus specific to healthcare buyers, and opportunities and safety for generative AI in healthcare.