Understand how a young Australian has built a leading AI recommendation company from the USA.

Tullie Murrell, CEO and cofounder of Shaped.ai talks about his time working in machine learning research at Meta (Facebook and Instagram) in San Francisco and how his experiences are still used today when he is managing the company from New York.

From growing up in regional South Australia and studying computer science at the University of Adelaide to now being the CEO of global tech company, this episode goes into detail about how to raise capital in the US.

Tullie talks about pre-seed rounds and explains how they secured $8 million USD in Series A funding to make AI-powered personalization more accessible for more businesses.

An interesting conversation about what it takes to intern and secure a job at the biggest companies in the world then take the plunge into entrepreneurialship and give up the golden handcuffs offered in big tech.

For more on Shaped.ai: https://www.shaped.ai/

Connect with Tullie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tullie/

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Producer: Kieran Hookway

Hosts: Jordon Tomopoulos and Brendan Hookway