How I Found My Dreams in Silicon Valley

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I love to talk about sort of, how did you find yourself moving to Silicon Valley? Was that the first company that you did with AI and what was the company? Yeah, so my actually 22 years ago, I kind of fell in love with a chatbot. So right away, I studied my first startup called the videos doing customer service chatbots. And after a while, we raised money in Silicon Valley. This is when I moved to the US and continued to develop this company until we sold it to a nuanced communications in 2012.

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.