S4 E3: Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Davit Buniatyan is originally from Romania. He completed his high school years there, until he was 17, when he started to pursue his undergrad in the UK at UCL. He entered into his college years, excited about animation from seeing Pixar movies. He learned all about 3d models, graphics and rendering - but then found out there was no course or curriculum specially for animation. So he switched to comp sci, which ended up being perfect. He is into swimming, tennis and shotokan - which is traditional Japanese karate. Along with these, he's been playing chess since he was 5 years old, and is an avid fan of the show Queen's Gambit on Netflix. When he started in on his PHD at Princeton, he started working with large data sets to recreate neural networks. In doing so, he realized how much computational power was required to learn from even a small - large scale data set. With this, he set out to build a tool to make companies more efficient at learning from their data. This is the creation story of Activeloop. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We started building the team actually when COVID started.
0:04.0	So I don't know, fortunately or unfortunately, I guess, our team is remote and it's all over the world.
0:10.0	It's great in a sense that we can provide customer support 24 hours around.
0:15.0	And it's bad because it's also like additional friction to synchronize with the team.
0:20.0	Not only as a startup, we have to figure
0:22.4	out how to grow and how to build the business on top of it, but we also like should figure out
0:27.1	and explore the technology itself. How do we imagine people are going to store all this like
0:34.0	unstructured data that generated today and in future.
0:42.3	My name is David Pugnettian and I'm the founding CEO of Acta Club.
0:53.1	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments
0:55.6	what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noel Lephardt, and today how David Buni Yatian decided to stop fighting
1:07.9	large datasets and make machine learning companies more efficient.
1:13.5	All this and more on Code Story.
1:20.2	David Buniatian is originally from Armenia. He completed his high school years there until he
1:26.1	was 17 when he started to pursue his undergrad in the UK at UCL.
1:31.5	He entered into his college years excited about animation from seeing Pixar movies.
1:36.5	He learned all about 3D models, graphics, and rendering,
1:40.5	but then found out there was no course or curriculum specifically for animation.
1:45.0	So he switched to compsai, which actually ended up being perfect.
1:49.0	He's into swimming, tennis, and Shotakan, I think I'm saying that right,
1:53.5	which is traditional Japanese karate.
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