Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Mihail Eric is the founder of Pametan Data Innovation, a consultancy firm that helps companies deliver machine learning and data-driven solutions to their hardest problems with a special focus on NLP, recommendation systems, tabular data, and computer vision. He's also the founder of Confetti AI, the premier educational platform for practitioners learning the skills to succeed in their machine learning and data science careers. It was recently acquired by Towards AI. He has helped start teams at RideOS and Amazon Alexa. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is a prompt and why does it have to be engineered - The role of signifiers - The problem of repetitive loops - LLMs - Analogies - Few shot and zero shot prompting - Biases - Security issues in LLMs --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Debarghya Das is the founding engineer at Glean. It's an enterprise search startup that recently raised at a billion dollar valuation from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, and Lightspeed. He has previously held roles at Google and Facebook where he worked on their search products. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Key takeaways from being on the founding team - The 0-1 phase of building products - Working with early customers - Opportunities for future search products - Search quality - Developing good product sense - Infusing intelligence into products --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Andy Petrella is the cofounder of Kensu, a data observability solution that offers companies the opportunity to monitor their data usage. He is the creator of Spark Notebook, an open-source software for data engineers and scientists using Spark and Scala. He is the author of the book Fundamentals of Data Observability. He has built a fantastic career in data over the last 16 years. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - data observability - being a founder - being an author - creating open source software - Kensu's unique approach "Data Observability Driven Development" -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Krishna Gade is the cofounder and CEO of Fiddler AI. They provide an explainable monitoring solution for production AI systems. Fiddler has been featured on Forbes AI 50 startups in 2020 and was awarded Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum. He has previously held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft, Twitter, Pinterest, and Meta.  In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - model monitoring - explainability - what they are building at Fiddler - how they got their first 5 customers - key takeaways on company building - how to maintain product discipline in enterprise SaaS -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Greg Tapper is the cofounder and CEO of PatternAI. They provide conversation intelligence for the enterprise. He was previously the founder and CEO of New Global, which he successfully sold to a large company after running it for 11 years. He's been a management consultant, most recently at McKinsey. He has degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - conversation intelligence - being a second time founder - what they are building at PatternAI - how they got their first 5 customers - how to choose your customers in the early days - how to maintain product discipline as you scale a company --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Ala Shaabana is the cofounder of Bittensor, an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized machine learning network. He has a PhD in computer science and has previously held roles at Instacart and VMware.In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:- Shortcomings of centralized AI- How to decentralize AI research- Incentivized computer networks- What they're building at Bittensor- Putting AI on the blockchain- Decentralized governance--------Where to find Prateek Joshi:Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.comWebsite: http://prateekj.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19

Alessya Visnjic is the cofounder and CEO of WhyLabs, which is an AI and data observability platform. She was previously a CTO-in-residence at the Allen Institute. Prior to that, she spent 9 years at Amazon building various machine learning products. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - AI observability - Being a founder - Getting the first 5 customers - How does an AI model fail - How to validate the problem as a founder - How to measure the ROI of your product --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Rak Garg is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures focusing on companies in infrastructure tools, machine learning, and cybersecurity. He was previously a product lead at Atlassian and Redfin. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:- how he got into venture capital- key learnings from working with startups- trends in the ML infrastructure space- generative AI- how content platforms should look at AI generated content- product management at early stage startups--------Where to find Prateek Joshi:Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.comWebsite: http://prateekj.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19

Howie Xu is the VP of Machine Learning and AI at Zscaler. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of TrustPath where they built a product to transform security with ML. He's a guest lecturer at Stanford and serves on the boards of startups. He was an EIR at Greylock. He is the Founder of VMware networking team, which went on to build legendary products.In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:- Why do we need ML in cybersecurity- The 0-1 phase of building a product and taking it to market- Being a founder- Validating the problem as a founder- How to get the first 5 customers- Company building- How to incorporate ML into your product--------Where to find Prateek Joshi:Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.comWebsite: http://prateekj.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19

Peggy Tsai is the Chief Data Officer at BigID, where they provide data intelligence that enables companies to know their data for privacy, protection, and governance. Over the last 15 years, she has held data leadership roles at S&P Global Ratings, Morgan Stanley, and AIG. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:- data governance- building a data strategy- how to protect data- how to measure data quality- how to build a good career--------Where to find Prateek Joshi:Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.comWebsite: http://prateekj.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19