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A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
- ▶ 7:26 Spencer Kimball But we were acquired by Square two years into that journey, and at Square, that's where we saw, you know what, this problem is way bigger than our startup as some ex-Google engineers. 4 times in the scene
NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 12:23 Clement Delangue A popular one in terms of, like, uh, public, uh, view, view in it, conversational, so obviously Siri, Alexa, uh, Square, for example, uses, uh, Transformers to, uh, power their customer support, uh, chatbots.
Fireside Chat: Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at IA Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 17:08 Roger Ehrenberg Way of explaining it, you know, you've got investors who believe strongly that the most important thing to do is to try and ensnare one of the Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Square-type companies, and they would rather own a minuscule part of…
Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jake Klamka, Insight Data Science // Data Driven #25 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 6:45 Jake Klamka We've got about 15 at Facebook, half a dozen at Yammer, Microsoft, half a dozen at Square, two at Airbnb, a number, all these other companies have multiple fellows working at them.
- ▶ 9:43 Jake Klamka So the Square risk team, for instance, has hired about seven fellows.