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Kohn: Traditional 90-day onboarding plans are insane for early-stage startups
“Trying to scope out 90 days for us is an insane prospect. I'd rather hear where you want to be in two years and just make sure we're all pointed in the right direction.”
Kohn: Meridian runs computer vision entirely on-device without relying on LLMs
“So nothing relies on an LLM at the moment. Everything relies on our proprietary computer vision model, which was built on a neural network and shrunk down to operate entirely on device.”
Kohn: Meridian operates as a single-entity venture studio without spinning companies out
“We think about ourselves as this computer vision applied company, but really it's a venture studio model housed within a single entity. So we're not spinning out individual companies. We're not raising a fund. We are actively a single entity that is going to r…”
Kohn: Meridian achieves sub-degree precision on-device using an iPhone camera
“We're able to test and validate solutions and build out applications that allow the front-facing camera on an iPhone to measure angles within a fraction of a degree, distanced within a fraction of an inch and do real-world on-device analysis and motion analysi…”
Kohn: Meridian's cloud compute bill is smaller than its Google Workspace expenses
“People ask us constantly, what is your cloud compute Bill for having to process all these different metrics on these models and storing videos, and it's negligible. It's, I mean, doesn't even show up as a line item for us, really. And I think our Google suite …”
Kohn: Pitching golf tech gets more executive attention than B2B SaaS
“Golf putting has become this great Trojan horse for us not to give away the strategy, but if you want to talk to a CEO of a major corporation or a CFO or talk to any kind of leadership, don't go to them saying, I have a great B to B SaaS solution for you. Say,…”
Kohn: Manufacturer loses $40M annually per facility to erroneous manual visual inspections
“In the manufacturing space, there is a large cost of quality assurance and erroneous quality assurance we've identified from one of our partners. They said they their facility loses about forty million dollars a year in items being pulled off the line because …”