20VC: Building An AI Company For The Long Term? How Humans & Machine Learning Can Work Together? What Applications Are The Conversational Interface Best Suited To with Maran Nelson, Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs

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🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Maran Nelson is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs, the truly human interface that uses conversational intelligence trained on high-quality data to schedule your meetings. They have secured funding from some of the best in the business including previous guest Kent Goldman @ Upside Partnership and Greg Brockman, Founder of the prestigious OpenAI. As for Maran, she is also the Founder of Interact, a community of 100 young makers and technologists coming together for an annual retreat in Tahoe.

In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How did Maran come to found one of the hottest AI startups of the day in Clara Labs?

2.) What is the right way to think about a digital assistant? How does Maran think consumer expectations and behaviours will change towards them in the coming years?

3.) Question from Shivon @ Bloomberg Beta: How does Maran think about building an AI company for the long term? How does Clara look to build scalable and transparent feedback loops?

4.) Why is Maran so bullish on the conversational interface? To what situation does this interface lend best? What other verticals and applications could this have in the future?

5.) Does Maran think that humans will always be needed in this process? At what stage will they become obsolete?

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0:00.0	We are back with the 20 minute VC and a special Founders Friday here for you today with me,
0:04.1	Harry Stebbings, found posting Mahito masterclasses on Snapchat at H. Stebbings and writing some
0:09.2	hopefully more pensive and academic thoughts on MahitoVC.com. I'd absolutely love to hear your thoughts on
0:14.4	that. But to the show today, and I'm thrilled to welcome Maron Nelson to the show. Maron is the co-founder
0:19.1	and CEO at Clara Labs, the truly human interface
0:22.4	that uses conversational intelligence trained on high-quality data to schedule your meetings.
0:27.3	They've secured funding from some of the best in the business, including previous guests
0:30.6	Kent Goldman at Upside Partnership, and Greg Brockman, founder of the prestigious Open AI.
0:35.4	As for Marron, she's also the founder of Interact,
0:38.2	a community of 100 young makers and technologists, coming together for an annual retreat in Tahoe.
0:43.2	I also want to say, we crowdsource some questions for the show today from fellow investors and
0:47.0	founders, and the outpouring of respect and love for Maron was truly incredible. So on that note,
0:51.7	a huge thank you to Sivvon at Bloomberg Beta for the intro today to Marran,
0:55.4	without which the show would not have been possible.
0:57.3	However, before we meet Maron, if you do decide to use Clara as your assistant,
1:00.9	you'll be freed up from many tasks, giving you much more time,
1:03.9	and you could use that time to sleep more, one of my aims for 2017.
1:07.5	And that's where the Simba Hybrid comes in.
1:09.3	It's the most advanced mattress in the world with a
1:11.5	unique combination of 2,500 conical pocket springs and responsive memory foam. It offers the perfect
1:17.2	support for two people, a mattress that responds to you and your partner's sleeping patterns,
1:21.5	and it's delivered for free with a 100-night sleep trial and free returns and a 10-year guarantee. So there's
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