Braden Hancock, Co-founder and Head of Technology at Snorkel AI, joins me to talk about his path from academia to start-up co-founder and his vision to make AI more accessible to both traditional and no-code development.
Show Notes
Braden Hancock, Co-founder and Head of Technology at Snorkel AI, joins me to talk about his path from academia to start-up co-founder and his vision to make AI more accessible to both traditional and no-code development.
In this episode, Braden and I explore the journey he and his co-founders took to go from having an interesting idea to forming a company and the strategic business decisions they made along the way, such as why they opted not to use an open-source business model and the educational marketing strategy they’ve adopted.
Highlights:
- Braden discusses his role as co-founder of Snorkel AI. (00:25)
- An introduction to Snorkel Flow, Snorkel AI’s data-centric AI development program and the challenges they solve for. (01:49)
- Snorkel AI’s relationship with open source. (06:30)
- Why Snorkel AI decided not to use an open-source business model in order to lower the barrier to entry. (09:01)
- Snorkel AI’s trajectory coming from academia to the world of start-ups. (12:50)
- The unexpected challenges of building Snorkel AI. (17:50)
- Taking an educational approach to the marketing at Snorkel AI. (22:27)
- Braden discusses the meaningful applications of AI as well as where he sees AI being used as more of a buzzword. (27:27)
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