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Michael Segala

Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Segala co-founded the AI and data science consulting firm SFL Scientific in 2015 and served as its CEO. After SFL Scientific was acquired by Deloitte in 2022, he became a Principal at Deloitte leading custom AI strategy and machine learning solutions.

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 2 insights · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Michael argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Segala: SFL Scientific founding team are all particle physics PhDs
“So our background, at least from the founding team, we were all particle physicists doing our PhDs in very kind of cutting edge R&D space.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 1:59 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Segala: SFL Scientific's ML suite got Stanford client FDA approval
“So they basically hired us to build out this entire suite of AI machine learning product solutions, and we did that, and it actually got them through FDA regulations, right?”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 3:58 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Michael Segala on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Michael Segala said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Segala: Data science challenges across different industry verticals are fundamentally identical
“So when you look at data science in general, Across any vertical, doesn't matter, you can pick a vertical, the problems or the challenges, they don't like when you say problems, the challenges that we're solving are unanimous, right? If you're looking at healt…”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 13:11 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Assertion Contradicted
Segala: SFL Scientific's ML suite got Stanford client FDA approval
“So they basically hired us to build out this entire suite of AI machine learning product solutions, and we did that, and it actually got them through FDA regulations, right?”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 3:58 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Insight
Segala: Most clients lack understanding to scope AI projects accurately
“To be honest, most clients, Aren't informed enough to understand the true scope of the project.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 7:09 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Disclosure
Segala: One client accounts for over 20% of SFL Scientific's revenue
“There is, and that's dangerous.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 11:39 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Segala: Knowledge graphs will revolutionize all fields in next few years
“Building these large graphs of information and knowledge that will completely revolutionize all fields in a very, you know, in the next few years.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 15:16 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Segala: SFL Scientific started with about $2,000
“I think all in, we were about 2000 dollars, which is pretty incredible.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 3:01 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Segala: SFL Scientific quadrupled its revenue in 2016
“We quadrupled from 2015, we quadrupled revenue, and this year we hope to quadruple revenue again.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 10:28 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Segala: SFL Scientific has never had a customer churn or cut contracts
“So the beautiful thing is, not to say it will never happen, so we've never had a customer leave us yet, or cut us.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 11:57 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Disclosure
SFL Scientific is building AI for cancer detection and 3D organ printing
“Health, for sure. We're doing some phenomenal work. I mean, from things like detecting cancer in images to actually taking reconstructed organs that we are able to detect in our algorithms, grow those organs in a kind of three-D printing environment, and then …”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 17:22 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Assertion Supported
Segala: SFL Scientific founding team are all particle physics PhDs
“So our background, at least from the founding team, we were all particle physicists doing our PhDs in very kind of cutting edge R&D space.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 1:59 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Disclosure
Segala: SFL Scientific is completely bootstrapped
“We're completely bootstrapped.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 2:56 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Disclosure
SFL Scientific's starting client contracts range from $50,000 to over $100,000
“High five figure, low six figures is usually the typical kind of starting point for clients.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 6:03 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Disclosure
Segala: SFL Scientific generated low six figures in first-year revenue
“It was in the low six figures, which was enough to support the three founders.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 8:10 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year
Disclosure
Segala: SFL Scientific co-founders split equity 34-33-33
“Well, I took an extra percentage point, but we split it. 33, 33, 34.”
Michael Segala Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 9:10 722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year

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