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Kohn: There is no good or bad golf putt, only repeatable strokes
“There's very, there's no such thing as a good putt and a bad putt. Okay. Is there a repeatable putt? Famously, Tiger Woods has a big swinging door stroke that if you showed just his putter head to a coach and they didn't know who it was, they would say that's …”
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: 85% of GDP is physical, but 90% of investment targets software
“What we really are solving is that 85% of the world's GDP is in the physical world, and 90% of investment goes into knowledge work or AI behind the screen, so we are bridging that gap between the physical world where you're interacting with solid objects, or s…”
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: 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: 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'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: 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: 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 …”
Kohn: Founders expose undocumented operational hand-waving by personally onboarding new hires
“If you ever want to know how much you're hand-waving over your company, just onboard somebody. Do it all yourself, and watch how much you go this person does some things over here, and then this thing happens.”
Kohn: Computer vision serves as the optical nerve for AI
“So computer vision is the optical nerve, the eyeballs of artificial intelligence. If AI is how a computer thinks, then computer vision is how the computer or the technology robots can interact with the physical world.”
Kohn: High-end golf fitting systems cost up to hundreds of thousands
“The starting price was about 25,000 dollars and goes up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for those kinds of solutions.”
Kohn: Military mission planning emphasizes red-teaming and upfront situational context
“In mission planning, there's a designated role of the intelligence officer whose job is to play the red hat, or kind of push back on the plan and say, here's where, here's what the enemy would do to counter this, and if you look at mission Operations order, th…”