Focus and listen. It’s what I had to do after my conversation with Stuart. I went back to the beginning of it, listened and learned. He is not only a great storyteller but a teacher too. Stuart is the Founder and CEO of Narrative Science, a company that interprets millions of data sources and transforms it into insightful, natural language narratives. His industry and brand are cutting edge and AI is certainly part of the now and the future. But just as important, I loved his vision of wanting to be “the somebody else,” the client that was being served, which led to an abrupt change in careers (the story is worth listening to). You will also appreciate and respect the business business opportunity he got from a CEO after seeing him (and really only him) on countless Saturdays in the office.

Podcast Notes:

Stuart’s career from Miami

• Accounting major from Miami and started working for PwC.

Coming into the office on a Saturday?

• In office every Saturday 9am-3pm.

Why Stuart got the promotion

1. He was the youngest people there and the CEO thought that younger people would understand and adopt emerging tech and things better.

Take the risk.

• When the project was canceled, he had the choice to go back and practice law or to discover another area of business he was interested in.

Working in AI (Artificial Intelligence), there’s always two sides...

1. Creation of technologies: this is where a lot of work is being done by large companies (Google, Microsoft, etc), but also smaller companies.

Always be in a learning mindset.

• Read everything.