20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
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🗓️ 9 November 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, Boston's own AI focussed fund. Prior to Glasswing, Rudina was a Partner at Fairhaven Capital, sering as lead investor and Director on the Boards of Celtra, CrowdTwist, Jibo, SocialFlow and Statisfy. Before Fairhaven, she was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft where she was responsible for sourcing, structuring, and negotiating Microsoft's acquisitions and strategic investments. Rudina has served as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for Harvard Business School for 4 consecutive years and is an advisor for L’OrĂ©al USA Women in Digital.Â
1.) How Rudina made her way from Microsoft into VC with Fairhaven and then Glasswing?
2.) Why is now the time for an AI fund? What technological advances have happened to allow narrow artificial intelligence to come to the foreground in such a prominent way?
3.) Does the potential incumbency advantage in AI concern Rudina? How can founders look to mitigate this and gain access to substantial data sets?
4.) In terms of disruption cycles, where does Rudina believe we are in current cycles? How does this affect adoption cycles of technology? Why will this be the fastest ever?
5.) Predictions: How long till artificial super intelligence comes to the forefront? How long until mass adoption of driverless cars? Will this be a winner take all market?
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the 20-minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings, and you can find me on Snapchat |
| 0:04.1 | at H. Stebbings for Mahito Making Madness, Startup Stories, and of course plenty of VC chat. However, to |
| 0:10.8 | today's show, and we have all witnessed the rise in excitement surrounding AI in the past couple of years. |
| 0:15.8 | Well, today's guest is so bullish on the future of AI. she has a fund devoted purely to AI, and I'm delighted to welcome |
| 0:21.5 | Rudina Sissary, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, a Boston AI-focused fund. |
| 0:27.5 | And prior to Glasswing, Rudina was a partner at Fairhaven Capital, serving as a lead investor |
| 0:32.2 | and director on the boards of crowd twist, GBO, social flow, and satisfy. And before Fairhaven, she was a senior manager |
| 0:39.0 | in the corporate development group at Microsoft, where she was responsible for sourcing and |
| 0:43.2 | structuring and negotiating Microsoft's acquisitions and strategic investments. Rudin has also |
| 0:48.1 | served as entrepreneur and residence for the Harvard Business School for four consecutive years, |
| 0:52.3 | and is an advisor for L'Oreal USA Women in Digital |
| 0:55.2 | and a huge thanks to Joe Shorga at Issa McAptial for the intro to Rudina today. However, |
| 0:59.8 | before we dive into the show, let's be honest, most problems start in the mind. Fear, anger, |
| 1:05.0 | stress, anxiety, sleeplessness. They begin in your head but they can wreck your life and meditation |
| 1:09.6 | can really help. Headspace is meditation made simple. |
| 1:12.6 | There's a mountain of signs showing the positive effects of meditation and mindfulness, |
| 1:16.6 | and the Headspace app provides guided meditations you can use whenever you want, wherever you want, |
| 1:20.6 | on your phone, computer or tablet, and they have sessions focused on everything from dealing with stress and anxiety, |
| 1:26.6 | to eating healthier, |
| 1:32.6 | sleeping better, and even being more creative. It's 1% of your day that can change the other 99. |
| 1:36.6 | So download the Headspace app and train your mind for a happier, healthier life. |
| 1:42.2 | Learn more at headspace.com forward slash 20VC. That's headspace.com forward slash 20 VC. I'm also so proud to be sponsored today by a product that's |
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