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155. How Machine Learning Makes IT Better with Larry Hack

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Larry Hack Today’s guest is Larry Hack, Chief Technology Officer at CPAP.com. Currently based in Cypress, Texas, Larry has been in technology for over 30 years and has worked in the manufacturing, banking, mortgage, ecommerce, logistics, and medical equipment fields. In addition to his IT career, Larry is an avid skydiver and BASE jumper. He graduated from Andrews University. How Machine Learning Makes IT Better with Larry Hack Larry discusses his 30-year career beginning in software, growing with a small company, and the benefits of machine learning in what he does. He believes it greatly increases the quality of IT work.

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And we'll go ahead and get started.

0:12.0

Where are you calling from?

0:14.0

Or what I'm currently in Northern Italy, right off of Lake Garda.

0:19.0

I'm from Houston, Texas, but I'm playing and working from here

0:23.2

for three weeks. Oh, wow. Well, appreciate you taking the time then to meet up. Tell me a little

0:31.6

bit about your role. What are you currently doing? What's happening? I'm the CTO for CEPAP.com. We're a durable medical

0:40.2

equipment company that we sell more CPAP machines online than anybody else in the world.

0:46.2

And we are branching out into sleeping.com, which will be our largest property in the next 18 months

0:53.9

or so because it's a much bigger market.

0:57.1

What is it?

0:58.6

Sleep.

0:58.6

Sleeping.com.

1:00.6

Sleeping?

1:01.4

So, yes, like getting a good night's sleep.

1:04.4

So seat pat machines, the machines that you use to help you breathe better at night if you have sleep apnea.

1:10.8

Oh, okay.

1:11.6

Air pressure.

1:13.3

Yep.

1:13.7

That's about a $30 billion industry.

1:18.3

And sleeping is about a $230 billion industry.

1:22.9

So we figured we're going to go get a bigger piece of the pie to pursue as opposed to just

1:29.1

that smaller market.

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