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A Podcast from Entrepreneurs First: Building billion dollar companies

Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society

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Tractable - A Breakthrough Company for the Insurance Industry

Tractable has been a break through company, not only for f, but also for the insurance industry as a whole. I asked alex how his experience at f helped him understand how to make use of technology to build his business. In two thousand 12, you had a huge brak through in deep learning, where it was the first time that we took these image net data sets and fed them into alcaritms. And that led to a massive breakthrough where  alga then starting to be able to understand what's on an image, even when it's very cluttered.

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