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AJ Shankar

CEO & Founder, Everlaw. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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AJ Shankar is the founder and CEO of Everlaw, a cloud-native, AI-powered e-discovery and litigation platform. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and previously launched a computer vision startup before founding Everlaw.

What they said4 Shows1

Everything AJ Shankar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Assertion Supported

AJ Shankar: IBM Watson is mostly regression, not an all-solving brain

“What IBM calls Watson, which is not some brain that just solves every problem, but a whole agglomeration of different techniques is largely regression, which is an incredibly powerful technique.”

AJ Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:04 a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups

a16z Opinion

AJ Shankar: ML startups hype algorithms for fundraising, not customer value

“Typically when companies are hyping up their machine learning component, they're, Might be doing it more to raise money than they are to provide a value to the customer.”

AJ Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:16 a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups

a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated

AJ Shankar: Most machine learning implementations do not use deep learning

“Most ML implementations are not deep learning. They're not neural networks. There's a ton of implementations that are incredibly valuable that don't involve networks.”

AJ Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:58 a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups

a16z Insight

AJ Shankar: AI products must act as transparent partners, not black boxes

“Yeah, I mean, the key thing you want to do is, is present the AI as a partner in the human, in the humans, in the people's endeavors, you know, what they're trying to do. This is something that's going to help you, you're going to work with it, and when you do…”

AJ Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:19 a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens AJ's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	CEO & Founder, Everlaw	1	4	100% 1/1	full record on the a16z Podcast →