January 14, 2022 • 69 mins
Timestamps
- (02:14) Alberto briefly shared his upbringing and education at the Bayes Business School in London.
- (04:01) Alberto shared key learnings from his first entrepreneurial stint at 19 by developing a 3D printing product for ed-tech.
- (07:48) Alberto described his overall experience participating in Singularity University’s Graduate Studies Program at the NASA Ames Research Park under a Google-funded scholarship in 2015.
- (12:52) Alberto helped develop the Aipoly product to aid the blind and visually impaired.
- (17:38) Alberto showed his enthusiasm for federated learning applications within mobile devices.
- (19:53) Alberto talked about the dichotomy between capitalism and social good in entrepreneurship.
- (22:29) Alberto shared the backstory behind the founding of V7 Labs.
- (26:40) Alberto discussed the comparison between biological and artificial neural networks.
- (28:02) Alberto emphasized the importance of having a good co-founder.
- (30:27) Alberto dissected the notable features developed within V7’s Annotation capability.
- (33:37) Alberto went over things to look for in a video labeling tool, citing his blog post.
- (37:21) Alberto unpacked key principles behind V7’s robust Dataset Management tool.
- (40:53) Alberto walked through the powerful capabilities of V7 Neurons that power its Model Automation tool.
- (43:33) Alberto shared fundraising advice for founders seeking the right investors for their startups.
- (46:07) Alberto shared valuable hiring and culture-setting lessons learned at V7.
- (50:12) Alberto emphasized the importance of not losing sight of the ‘ideal customer’ for young founders in the AI space.
- (53:01) Alberto shared the hurdles his team has to go through while finding new customers in new industries.
- (55:10) Alberto walked through labeling challenges dealing with medical imaging datasets.
- (57:35) Alberto discussed outreach initiatives that helped drive V7’s organic growth.
- (59:49) Alberto mentioned the importance of collaboration between companies within the MLOps ecosystem.
- (01:02:01) Alberto touched on the scientific hunger of Europe regarding the adoption of AI technologies.
- (01:03:49) Alberto briefly mentioned what public recognition means to him in the pursuit of democratizing AI for the world.
- (01:06:07) Closing segment.
Alberto’s Contact Info
V7’s Resources
Mentioned Content
Articles
- “7 Things We Looked for in a Video Labeling Tool” (Aug 2020)
- “The Biggest Mistake I’ve Ever Made: Losing Sight of the Ideal Customer” (March 2021)
Talks
- “An AI Narrator for the Blind” (TEDx Geneva 2016)
- “If The Blind Could See” (TEDx Melbourne 2018)
People
- Geoff Hinton (for rethinking the ML field fundamentally)
- Chelsea Finn (for her work on meta-learning)
- Jeff Clune (for making agents that work at scale in the real world)
Book
- “Start With Why” (by Simon Sinek)
Notes
V7 is hiring across all departments. Take a look at their careers page for the openings!
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