Hive's CEO Gives Insight To AI's Gradual Changes And Counteracting Its Negative Connotations

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

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Kevin Guo is the Cofounder and CEO of Hive. Guo has over seven years of experience in VC and startup companies. Kevin completed BA, BS, and Master's degrees from Stanford University. In 2017, Kevin pivoted their career to focus on AI, previously they were with Mithril Capital Management, where they worked on investments in enterprise software, consumer internet, and healthcare. Kevin Guo, chats with Alex York at Founder's Forum about the possible changes to come with AI, how he founded Hive, and how Hive builds tools to that help the greater good through technology. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Alex York. I'm Alex York. I'm at Founders Forum in New York City with
0:06.1	Kevin Guo of Hive. Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:09.7	Happy to be here. So I want to talk about Hive and the inception of the business. You guys create computer
0:15.0	programs that analyze images. Why did you get into that space in the first place? How did
0:20.4	you kind of see this as avoiding the market you wanted to fill?
0:23.0	So when we started this company actually,
0:26.0	this was back in 2014, I had just did my undergrad and my graduate of Stanford
0:30.0	I think for your science.
0:31.0	We actually were very different business.
0:32.0	We had our own consumer platform. for something for your science. We actually were a very different business.
0:32.8	We had our own consumer platform.
0:35.4	It was a startup.
0:37.1	You know, we had millions of users on this product.
0:40.4	And we had a problem around things like constant moderation.
0:43.0	There were some misbehaving users.
0:44.0	We tried using third party models out there to solve this and we realized
0:48.0	that that was very good, and so we had to build our own models internally.
0:51.0	And so you can say that we were our own initial customer for many years
0:54.7	using it for our own, you know, internal purposes. Over time, many of my peer and friends,
1:00.0	these other startup founders had heard about what we built,
1:02.7	asked if they could buy this model from us.
1:05.7	And so then we started almost a side hustle
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