Ali Golshan is the cofounder and CEO of Gretel AI, a synthetic data platform for ML developers. They have raised $65M in funding so far from investors such as Greylock and Anthos. He was previously the cofounder of StackRox, which was acquired by Red Hat for about $450M. Prior to that, he was the cofounder of Cyphort, which was acquired by Juniper Networks.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- The need for synthetic data
- Techniques to generate synthetic data
- How can AI enhance the synthetic data generation process
- Computational irreducibility
- Differential privacy
- Measuring the performance of the engine that generates synthetic data

Ali's favorite books:
- The Order of Time (Author: Carlo Rovelli)
- The Coddling of the American Mind (Authors: Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt)

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