Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.

My name is Alex and this is our interview show where we sit down with a guest or in this case

guests think about their work and then unpack the rest. Today we are keeping it in

house and we have Tech Ranch senior reporters Dominic Madori Davis and Kyle Wigger is here.

They are writing a long-running and soon to be even longer running interview series with

women in AI.

We are absolutely loving their reporting so far, learning quite a lot, so we brought them on the show so we can learn even more as a group.

Dom, Kyle, welcome to the show.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

Dom has been here before, Kyle has been here before, you're both Equity Veterans, but Kyle, I I have a story for you I'm glad you're back because I was recently asked by someone who works in let's call it the technology communications world if you are a real person or a robot and I'm very glad we can do kind of a proof of life here that you are actually a person. So welcome back.

Thanks. Glad to be back. Yeah, it's a weird liveness check, but whatever works for people to prove I am human, indeed.

Wish I was a robot, you know, be more productive, but here we are.

I feel like that's more of a comment about where we are in capitalism than anything else, but let's put that aside and move along.

So I want to go back in time a little bit because I've been watching you guys put out this series now for

what it feels like months.

I'm just kind of curious what was the

Genesis and how long did you take to spin up talking to all these women in the world

of AI, Tom? Okay so it was obviously because of the New York Times publishing

some AI series and they listed like a bunch of

guys and no women and I'm trying to remember how it started either I flagged it to

Kyle or like we were just talking about it and it was kind of like isn't it crazy that the New York Times is doing this massive series on AI and they're going back to just Elon and Larry Page and Sam as if those three guys invented AI and AI just started three years ago?

I was like, that's actually crazy.

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