Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Jill Chase is a partner at CapitalG where she focuses on AI, data, infrastructure, and devops. Previously, she was the cofounder of Nimble and the CEO at Interlaced. She got her MBA at Stanford and is a guest lecturer there as well.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Delivery models for AI businesses (BYOML and MLaaS)
- Your viewpoint on companies building AI compute infrastructure
- Consumer software in AI
- AI-infused software development applications
- Cost structure of ML businesses vs SaaS businesses
- Application companies vs full stack companies in AI
- AI market trends
- How do you evaluate investment opportunities

Jill's favorite books: High Growth Handbook, Silent Killer (by Beverly Barton)

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: https://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Ittai Dayan is the cofounder and CEO of Rhino Health. It's a platform powered by federated learning and edge compute technology that allows the scaling of data between different institutions without sharing data or compromising privacy. Prior to that, he has held roles at Harvard Medical School, Mass General Brigham, BCG, and Israeli Defense Forces.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- What is federated learning
- How federated learning is used in healthcare
- How is AI being used in medicine and healthcare
- Lifecycle of healthcare AI
- Tackling algorithmic bias 

Ittai's favorite book: The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Amanda Robson is a partner at Cowboy Ventures. She works with enterprise companies focusing on software infrastructure companies. She has a passion for open source companies and co-hosts the Open Source Startup Podcast. Before joining Cowboy, she was an early-stage investor at Norwest where she worked with a number of enterprise software companies including 6 River Systems, Fossa, and Dremio. She is the proud founder of Modern Angels - a community and database of 200+ female and non-binary angel investors. She also co-leads the VC Champions program for All Raise, and co-chairs NextGen Partners, an organization that helps up-and-coming investors get the support and access they need to be successful.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How she got into VC
- Open source projects
- How she invests in open source companies
- Software infrastructure market landscape
- Investment framework
- Trends in AI/ML
- The role of AI in software infrastructure

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Where to find Prateek Joshi: 

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Pauline Yang is a partner at Altimeter Capital, a tech-focused crossover firm based in Menlo Park. She joined the team in 2017 and has worked on investments in Confluent, Epic Games, Gitlab, H1, Reify Health, Transposit, Unity, UiPath, and Workato. Prior to joining Altimeter, she was an investor at Berkshire Partners, a middle-market private equity firm where she focused on vertical software and consumer investments. She began her career working on M&A transactions at Blackstone. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in economics.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How she got into VC
- Investment framework at crossover funds
- Trends in AI/ML
- Killer apps in AI
- AI infrastructure
- Generative AI

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Where to find Prateek Joshi: 

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Sebastian Raschka is one of the most well known AI authors in the world. He is an AI researcher with a strong passion for education. As Lead AI Educator at Lightning AI, he is making AI more accessible and teaching people how to utilize AI at scale. He's been an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on deep learning research. You can learn more about him on his website.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Framework for writing great books 
- State of play in AI research
- AI to analyze protein structure
- Killer apps in AI
- AI infrastructure
- How he chooses tools for his projects
- His outlook on generative AI

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Where to find Prateek Joshi: 

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Max Abram is an investor at Scale Venture Partners, a VC firm with investments in companies like HubSpot, Box, DocuSign, and more. He was previously at Kayne Anderson's growth equity group. He holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a varsity lightweight rower. He is an endurance athlete, which comes in handy in venture. He spends free time reading fiction and exploring his new home base in the SF Bay Area.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Generative AI index
- Use cases he's excited by
- His learnings as an investor
- Trends he's witnessing in the AI market

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Where to find Prateek Joshi: 

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Svet Penkov is the cofounder and CEO of Efemarai, a platform to test and improve machine learning code. He is the chairman of the board at AI Cluster Bulgaria. And he has a PhD in Robotics and AI.  

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: 
- Why we need ML testing 
- ML testing methods 
- How did he discover the problem that led to launching Efemarai 
- The role of synthetic data in testing 
- Edge cases 
- Building reliability into ML pipelines 

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Where to find Prateek Joshi: 

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Sujith Ravi is the founder and CEO of SliceX AI, a platform that allows you to train and deploy AI models across devices and use cases. Previously, he founded and headed multiple ML teams at Google AI and Amazon Alexa. It spanned conversational AI, graph & deep learning, and on-device machine learning technologies. These products are used by billions of people in Search, Ads, Assistant, Gmail, Photos, Android, Cloud, and YouTube. At Google, he invented ML technologies like Smart Reply for conversational AI; Web and Image Search; On-Device ML in Android and Assistant; Neural Structured Learning in TensorFlow; Learn2 Compress for Google Cloud; and TensorFlow Lite for edge devices.   

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: 
- How to build ML products 
- How to deploy ML on edge devices 
- Key constraints of on-device ML 
- AI-powered content generation 

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Where to find Prateek Joshi: 

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Nathan Benaich is the founder of Air Street Capital, a venture capital firm investing in AI-first technology and life science companies. He is the coauthor of State of AI report, an annual report that analyses the most interesting developments in AI. He has degrees from University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How he got into VC
- How he evaluates AI startups
- His decision making framework for investments
- His views on generative AI
- Legal and copyright issues
- Creating business value with AI
- Future trends in the AI market

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Where to find Prateek Joshi:

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Rob Toews is a partner at Radical Ventures, a VC firm that invests in world's leading AI startups. Rob leads their investment efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was previously at Highland Capital focusing on AI investments. He was in an operational role at Zoox, an autonomous vehicle company that got acquired by Amazon for $1.3B. He is an AI columnist at Forbes. He has a bachelors degree from Stanford. And an MBA and JD from Harvard. 

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: 
- How he got into VC 
- How he evaluates AI startups 
- His decision making framework for investments 
- The business of AI 
- Generative AI, Large language models, Robotics, and MLOps 
- Future trends in AI 

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Where to find Prateek Joshi: 

Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com 
Website: http://prateekj.com 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19