Alex Bates

Founder & CEO, HelloSky · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Bates is the founder and CEO of HelloSky and managing director at Neocortex Ventures. He previously co-founded the industrial AI company Mtell and authored the book Augmented Mind.

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Opinion

Bates: Alphabet faces internal controversy over speculative DeepMind AGI play

“For AGI, where you've got like Vicarious, you have DeepMind, those are really speculative plays. There's even a lot of controversy within Google and Alphabet now about DeepMind, and they're in Alphabet versus Google, and then there's Google Brain, and there's …”

Alex Bates Apr 12, 2019 ▶ 12:18 1357 How He's Betting on the Future of AI

Opinion

Bates: The Biggest Opportunity in AI Is Going Deep into Vertical Domains

“There's mostly vertical plays, and that's where we see the biggest opportunity is going deep into a domain right now, be it biotech or music or other domains like that”

Alex Bates Apr 12, 2019 ▶ 5:23 1357 How He's Betting on the Future of AI

Insight

Bates: Angel investors lack domain knowledge needed to fund seed AI startups

“One of the challenges we face, and I've seen other companies face, is for angel investors, there's a lack of knowledge to get the confidence to invest in these seed stage startups, and then startups have trouble connecting”

Alex Bates Apr 12, 2019 ▶ 9:16 1357 How He's Betting on the Future of AI

Disclosure

Bates: The Sandbox Takes 5% Equity in Incubated AI Startups

“So we take five, five percent equity and we have different investment models and of course offer, in addition to the free free office space, the whole we have some law firms we partner with to get discounted or free work on patent development. And accounting a…”

Alex Bates Apr 12, 2019 ▶ 4:30 1357 How He's Betting on the Future of AI

Disclosure

Bates: MTEL raised $2M split between equity and a royalty structure

“Yeah, we took in two million one of which was equity and one was sort of a royalty arrangement.”

Alex Bates Apr 12, 2019 ▶ 7:36 1357 How He's Betting on the Future of AI

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1357 How He's Betting on the Future of AI	Apr 12, 2019	8m

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