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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Jack Kokko is co-founder and CEO of AlphaSense, the market intelligence platform often described as "Google for finance." The company's 6,000 customers canvass 90% of the top asset management firms, all the world's leading investment banks, and over half of the Fortune 500 companies.
Our conversation covers Jack's early frustration as an investment banking analyst that sparked the idea for AlphaSense, the evolution of the business from a simple semantic search tool to an AI-powered research platform, the promise and perils of LLMs in high-stakes decision-making, and Jack's vision of an always-on intelligence machine that will transform how business gets done. Jack offers a fascinating glimpse at the intersection of technology, data, and investment decision-making.
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| 0:00.0 | a single deep research report that our AI produces now gives them same 10 pages that they |
| 0:06.1 | spent three weeks producing with a team of people. |
| 0:08.9 | So it just gives you now this incredible efficiency and breath in what you can do. |
| 0:15.1 | It allows you to do much more diligence and ultimately be more confident in your decision |
| 0:19.6 | making and still be a lot faster. |
| 0:21.5 | So it's going to address these the quality and the speed and the confidence all at once. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Ted Sides and this is Capital Allocators. |
| 0:37.4 | My guests on today's show is Jack Coco, co-founder and CEO of AlphaSense, the market intelligence |
| 0:45.0 | platform often described as Google for finance. |
| 0:49.4 | The company's 6,000 customers canvassed 90% of the top asset management firms, all the world's |
| 0:56.5 | leading investment banks, and over half of the Fortune 500 companies. |
| 1:01.4 | Our conversation covers Jack's early frustration as an investment banking analyst that sparked |
| 1:06.3 | the idea for Alpha Sense, the evolution of the business from a simple semantic search tool to an AI-powered |
| 1:12.4 | research platform, the promise and perils of LLMs in high-stakes decision-making, and Jack's |
| 1:18.3 | vision of an always-on intelligence machine that will transform how business gets done. |
| 1:24.4 | Jack offers a fascinating glimpse at the intersection of technology, data, and investment decision-making. |
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| 1:36.7 | indoctrination season. Because let's face it, young minds are malleable. And when you've got |
| 1:41.5 | kids, you've got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to wire them the |
| 1:45.2 | right way with your favorite football teams. Just ask my four-year-old. |
| 1:49.2 | Go dogs. Sick him. Woof, woof, who. Now that's an easy one. The Georgia Bulldogs are a college |
| 1:56.1 | football powerhouse. Three national championships in recent years, tons of glory, who wouldn't |
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