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Evan Macmillan

Co-Founder and CEO, Gridspace. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Evan Macmillan is the co-founder and CEO of Gridspace, a speech processing and conversational AI platform created in collaboration with SRI Speech Labs. Previously, he co-founded local commerce startup Zappedy and served as a Director of Product at Groupon.

What they said6 Shows1

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

MAD Assertion Supported

Cisco and Avaya control the majority of enterprise voice data infrastructure

“So when we're talking about voice data, there's a few companies that control the pipes and those companies are Cisco and Viya, and they have a pretty large footprint in contact center, and then also in unified conferencing.”

Evan Macmillan Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 11:55 Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

Most YouTube advertisers do not know what video content they target

“Most YouTube, I mean, advertisers don't really know what's going on in the YouTube videos they advertise against.”

Evan Macmillan Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 13:27 Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

English speech recognition is harder than Romance languages due to orthography

“English was actually harder than many romantic languages because the orthography in English, it means it's like how, how words get written and then said are, there's a better connection in romantic languages than English.”

Evan Macmillan Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 17:35 Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

People speak 100 times more words than they write in email

“So people speak about, ah, a hundred times more words, ah, than they write in email.”

Evan Macmillan Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 3:35 Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Insight

Macmillan: The best interfaces for voice output are task-driven

“I think the best interfaces are task-driven.”

Evan Macmillan Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 8:18 Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Supported

A 1952 Bell Labs voice system reached 97-99% accuracy

“Actually the, ah, the recognition rate of this machine was 97 to 99%.”

Evan Macmillan Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 10:08 Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Co-Founder and CEO, Gridspace	1	6	100% 2/2	full record on the MAD Podcast →