Alina Cohen
Angel Investor. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alina Cohen co-founded the computer vision startup RecRec and led technology investments at Tamares Group. She previously served as a General Partner at Initialized Capital and is an angel investor.
1shows
1appearances
17statements
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Everything Alina Cohen said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Cohen: Machine learning benefits tech giants, not early-stage AI startups
“Machine learning is a leveraged play on data, so So it's the Facebooks, the Apples, the Googles of the world that are getting the most benefit from it. It's not the early stage startups.”
Cohen calls chatbots a fad due to limited natural language processing
“I'd have to say fad. Bad. I don't think that natural language processing NLP is there yet.”
Cohen: Current AI relies on data without enabling true reasoning
“That doesn't bring us any closer to the ability to reason, to create, or to do anything else that we associate with actual intelligence.”
Cohen: Reaching computer vision's final 10% accuracy requires massive scale
“With computer vision, it's easy to get 90% of the way there, but the last 10% is nearly impossible unless you're at huge scale.”
Cohen: Sand Hill Road VCs completely missed investing early in Palantir
“Pretty much all of Sandhill had completely missed the boat on Palantir, and this guy had been there, and he saw it early.”
Cohen: Potential acquirer planned to gut LogDNA's product during acquisition talks
“In the case of LogDNA, they were going to gut a lot of the product and make it into something that was not what the founders wanted it to be.”
Cohen: Engineering-centric founders pivot best because they can enter cockroach mode
“I think that when you're able to build the product yourself, when you're able to do the heavy lifting, I think you're also more flexible. Just, it's a way of thinking about things, and I found that those people have tended to be the most successful In terms of…”
Cohen: Highly valuable startups often grow without tech press coverage
“There's this thinking in the valley that there's one right way to do a startup. That you launch it on TechCrunch, you have a press cycle, you network at all these parties, but really there's so many different ways of doing it. There's this whole world of incre…”
Alina Cohen: Always prioritize engineering-centric founders with deep expertise
“I don't know if I could pick one thing, there's one thing I would always pick, and that's engineering-centric founders with deep knowledge, deep expertise, and real secrets.”
Alina Cohen: OpenAI relies on LogDNA for software logging
“They're used by OpenAI and a bunch of others”
Cohen: Accepting an acquisition makes founders players in someone else's game
“Transition from being your own game master to being a player in somebody else's game.”
Alina Cohen: Voice interfaces enable true multitasking unlike traditional screen-based devices
“It's one of the few interfaces that doesn't force an interrupt that you can multitask with. With just about anything you're doing, you can keep doing it and still be using your voice, and with everything else involving computers, you more or less have to stop …”
Cohen: Initialized Capital is not yet actively investing in voice startups
“I'm not going to come out here and say that we invest in voice companies. We're really not sure yet, but it is a really interesting new platform.”
Alina Cohen: Amazon Alexa provides greenfield app opportunities like early Facebook
“And it reminds me of the Facebook platform back in the day in that there's just so much greenfield opportunity. There's so much opportunity to leverage the growth of Alexa to grow your own app.”
Alina Cohen: LogDNA gained 800 customer signups on launch day
“And in the first day alone, they had 800 customers signing up”
Alina Cohen: Amazon Alexa is the most straightforward platform to develop on
“I've developed for a lot of platforms before, and this was by far the most straightforward Forward Development Experience”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alina's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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