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🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Alex Bates is an angel investor and a Member of Peter Diamandis’s Abundance 360 Network.
He has spent the last decade bringing artificial intelligence and machine learning to the forefront of the industrial market. From leading DARPA funded research in neural networks, to applying analytics for the world’s largest data warehouses at Teradata, to creating Mtell, a machine learning company acquired by Aspentech (NASDAQ: AZPN), he believes the coming wave of human-centered Al has the potential to make us superhuman and create a world of abundance.
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0:00.0 | My new book, How to Be a Capitalist, without any capital is out. You can get it at |
0:04.9 | Capitalistbook.com. Here's what Nicholas said on March 6th on Amazon. Incredibly incisive, |
0:11.2 | useful, and sensible. The author is not greedy and is in fact extremely generous and does |
0:15.8 | not hold back on the knowledge he imparts. I've barely made it halfway to the book, |
0:19.8 | and I'm already gushing over |
0:21.1 | the book because it's an absolute gem. Nathan gets to the point quick, shows proof and best of all |
0:26.2 | shows you not just what to do, but how to do it in explicit detail. To say the book is actionable, |
0:31.2 | is an understatement. Now, you guys, I listen to the podcast, know I'm detail-oriented, |
0:35.3 | so that review might not surprise you, but I hope you |
0:37.5 | grab the book. It's now a Wall Street Journal, instant national bestseller. Grab it at capitalist |
0:42.7 | book.com. Audible version is available, too. Sold his company, Intel to Aspen Technologies after |
0:48.2 | raising about $2 million, now focused on building an incubator for AI in San Diego as he kind of |
0:53.5 | researches the space stays active in Peter Diamandis's mastermind group and hopefully jumps back |
0:57.9 | and becomes an operator in the next six to 12 months. We'll see what happens. |
1:01.3 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies |
1:07.2 | and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, |
1:15.5 | customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines. We went |
1:22.2 | from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. I had no money when I started |
1:26.3 | the company. It was 160 million dollars, which is the size of any IPOs. |
1:30.5 | We're a bit strapped. |
1:31.4 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
1:35.3 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
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