Ep. 192 – Scale Ai General Manager, Melisa Tokmak

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Management, Careers, Business

4.9 • 225 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Melisa Tokmak is the Head of Scale AI’s Document AI business, which focuses on building fine-tuned machine learning models to process documents at high quality. As the founder and leader of this unit, Melisa supports a team of engineers and machine learning scientists, as well as product, operations, sales, and marketing. She is now spearheading […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to
0:11.7	you by its founder, Cameron Herald.
0:14.0	In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,
0:20.0	and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief. And now here's your host
0:24.8	Cameron Harold. Our guest today is Scale AIs GM Melissa Talkmack.
0:33.3	Melissa is the head of Scale AI's document AI business,
0:36.5	which focuses on building fine-tuned machine learning
0:39.4	models to process documents at high quality.
0:42.6	As the founder and leader of this unit,
0:44.4	Lista supports a team of engineers and machine learning scientists
0:47.8	as well as product operations, sales, and marketing.
0:51.2	She's now spearheading document AI's expansion to serve a wide range of industries including logistics,
0:56.0	financial services, health care and beyond.
0:59.0	Prior to this role,
1:00.0	Melissa was Scales, chief of staff,
1:02.0	serving as CEO Alexander Wang's right hand and founded
1:05.8	Scales Government Unit, a key driver of growth and opportunities for the company.
1:10.3	As a result, scale now works with agencies including the US Army, the Department of Defense's Innovation Unit, and the US Air Force.
1:17.0	Melissa, welcome to the Second Command Podcast.
1:19.0	Hello.
1:20.0	You guys are doing some really cool stuff and I have a funny story to kind of lead us into this my first I guess use of high quality document scanning was 20 years ago when I was the
1:34.9	C.O. for 1-800 got junk and I had just finished one of the very first core
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