Alex Dalyac is co-founder and CEO of Tractable, which builds “AI for disaster recovery”.

Tractable enables auto insurers to make real-time appraisals of damage using their computer vision models.

They recently announced their Series D, led by Insight Partners and Georgian, which values the company at a billion dollars.

This makes them Entrepreneurs First’s first unicorn and the first unicorn built through a talent investing platform (Alex met his co-founder Razvan at EF).

In this episode, Alex and Reid Hoffman, co-founder and Chairman of LinkedIn, speak entrepreneur to entrepreneur to reflect on their own journeys as unicorn founders.

They share what they believe are the most important tenets of founding a successful business - particularly in the earliest stages - and how aspiring founders can launch a startup heading for unicorn status.

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