machine learning

10 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 2, 2017 by Tomasz Tunguz · across every show →

Everything said about machine learning, oldest first

Jun 2, 2017
Insight
Tunguz: AI algorithms are commoditized; startups must build proprietary datasets
“The algorithms themselves are not that innovative. They're not that close source. So you, we're going, the company that's going to really innovate is going to need its own data set to be able to train its own models.”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 8:31 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
Jun 2, 2017 neutral
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Tunguz: AI technology advantages do not automatically lower customer acquisition costs
“Like, let's say you know, you create the next version of Zendesk that's got a whole bunch of ML. It's not necessarily that that technology, you know, that Intel inside technology is going to all of a sudden reduce your cost of customer acquisition relative to …”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 24:15 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
Jun 2, 2017 positive
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Tunguz: AI startups must pitch customer value without mentioning machine learning
“Can you pitch your startup without saying machine learning? And what that means is you're not focused on the technology. You're focused on the value proposition. You're focused on why the customer is going to care about it. Why the buyer is going to be promote…”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 14:55 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
Jun 2, 2017
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Tunguz: Machine learning simplifies to just four core capabilities
“Machine learning is really simple. All it does is it teaches the machine to find patterns and data, and there are four things that you can teach a machine to do.”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 3:16 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
Jun 2, 2017
Insight
Tunguz: AI innovation alone fails without a strong go-to-market advantage
“A machine learning innovation, in, in and of itself, is not enough to generate substantial customer demand. It has to be able to change the go-to-market.”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 9:04 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
Jun 2, 2017 positive
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Tunguz: Machine learning products succeed when they operate invisibly in the background
“That's a great, ah, analogy for how machine learning succeeds. And what I mean by that is, it's not in your face. It's hidden in the background. It's doing the work behind the scenes.”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 13:48 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
Jun 2, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tunguz: The first ML SaaS startups will hit $15M ARR by 2018
“I think we're in the world of, like, there are very few SaaS companies that use machine learning at scale, and I think maybe next year we'll be talking about the first handful of them are, that are 10 or fifteen million in ARR, and we're going to be trying to …”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 23:47 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
Jun 2, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tunguz: AI will transform vertical SaaS at cloud computing scale
“The big theme about machine learning is, it's going to change the world of SAS because all of a sudden, it's not just, The machine learning innovations will happen in the core categories that we've seen in the past. Those horizontal companies selling to custom…”
Tomasz Tunguz Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 7:38 AI: The New Platform for SaaS
May 3, 2018 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Deeter: Early AI and machine learning are having a lasting impact on software
“The impact of the early instantiation of machine learning in AI is having lasting impact in the software, and that will be impactful as we talk about the macro trends.”
Byron Deeter May 3, 2018 ▶ 1:53 State of the Cloud: 2018 Edition
Oct 25, 2022 positive
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Hoover: ML apps create compounding data network effects for early movers
“Certainly an example of applications that do are machine learning powered applications that have data network effects. Grammarly is an example of that. In our case, as an early mover, that enabled us to really build a very high quality set of suggestions to dr…”
Brad Hoover Oct 25, 2022 ▶ 10:21 Secrets To Combining PLG and Enterprise Sales with @grammarly CEO Brad Hoover
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