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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

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Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who see a new marketplace or niche or how to reach the mass market in ways not previously attempted. We can’t help but be amazed by the rapid developments in artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

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In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who find a new marketplace or niche – or how to reach the mass market in new ways. Well, it’s a fair question. They could send only the “LO” of “LOGON” before recording the very first crash of the Internet.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, ObEN

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The way it works, is you take a selfie with iOS or Android, and without extra hardware or attachments or scanning, you can do a voice recording, and using our proprietary artificial intelligence technology, we automatically create a photo-real, virtual self of that person. That was how it started out.

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A Chat With Jamie Montgomery On How LA's Tech Ecosystem Has Grown

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We're now one of the top five tech markets in the world, along with the Bay Area, New York, the rest of Southern California, companies in India, and places like China, Berlin, and London. We're also excited about the areas around artificial intelligence for certain verticals. That will cause a real boom in M&A.