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©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
Databases Got Inside All Software
©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
So Will AI
©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
20162009
Mobile First
2007
Cloud Native AI Inside
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20031995
Internet Architecture
1993
Client-Server Virtual Appliance
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What Can Startups Do?
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See in the Real World
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Seeing Things in the World
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUES:
Image recognition,image segmentation, and visual similarity search
What’s similar to this thing in the picture?
©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
Automated Analysis of Drone Imagery
Image segmentation, flight planning, grade analysis
Safety compliance, maximize fuel efficiency, calculate stockpile volumes, recognize storm damage
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUES:
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Understand Language
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Help Lawyers Win Trials
Logistic Regressions, SVM, Long Short-Term Memory Convolutional Neural Nets
Train new prediction models, identify documents relevant for a trial by topic, translate documents into other languages, audio transcription
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUES:
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Hear the Voice of the Customer
Topic modeling with BigARTM, NLP, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, deep learning (LSTM, Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron) with Keras and Tensorflow
Automatically detect themes and sentiment in customer reviews
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUE:
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Make Predictions
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Help Airbnb Hosters Price Their Pads
https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/save-time-with-smart-reply-in-gmail/
Image analysis, Aerosolve open source project
Predict probability of getting a booking based on price, date, photos, location, unique listing features
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUES:
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Surface The Best Tips And Photos
https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/save-time-with-smart-reply-in-gmail/
Support vector machines, sentiment analysis, spam detection, k-nearest neighbor
Rank tips, group photos, figuring out whether you’re near a venue
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DESCRIPTION:
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Figure Out Best Distribution Outlet for a Story
Logistic Regressions, Word Embeddings, Recurrent Neural Networks on Elastic Map Reduce, RedShift, BigQuery
Figure out initial offsite distribution channel for item, and how to optimally route it across channels. Content adaptation and translation.
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUES:
©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
Collect Groceries as Fast as Possible
Gradient boosted decision trees, deep learning with TensorFlow and Keras
8% improvement to pick up times
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUE:
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Search For Anti-Aging Drugs
http://blogtacular.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Pinterest-Visual-Search-Zoom-4.png
Used machine learning techniques to filter through 14k metabolites and found a set of 171 metabolites that are predictive of mortality
This subset of metabolites can be used to develop anti-aging drugs and screen for efficacy
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DESCRIPTION:
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Predict Health Problems
Detect atrial fibrillation using data from your smartwatch
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DESCRIPTION:
Deep neural networks, reinforcement learning
TECHNIQUES:
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Self-Drive, Self-Fly, Self-Map…
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TECHNIQUES:
Map Inside of a Building
https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-auto-caption-1-billion-videos-subtitles-hearing-impaired/
Vision/face recognition, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), path planning
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DESCRIPTION:
Flies inside buildings, constructs 3D maps, identifies people
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Drive Taxis
https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/save-time-with-smart-reply-in-gmail/
Vision recognition, SLAM, motion planning, vehicle control
Self driving taxi service live in San Jose Villages
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUES:
©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
Self-Fly And Drop Off Blood
https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/save-time-with-smart-reply-in-gmail/
Motion planning, navigation
110 kph
75 km delivery radius
30 minute fulfillment time
500 deliveries/day
1.5 kg payload
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DESCRIPTION:
TECHNIQUES:
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Provide Infrastructure (Picks & Shovels)
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Provide Data Analytics Platform
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TECHNIQUE:
Apache Spark MLlib (classifications, data prep, regressions, random forest, decision trees, XGBoost…), Scit-kit Learn, Visuatlizations
DESCRIPTION TEXT
Built on Spark, Databricks enables ML teams to run experiments at scale
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Auto-Tune Your Existing Models
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TECHNIQUE:
“AI for AI” using ensemble of Bayesian and global optimization strategies to perform black-box optimization ( just looks at configs and outputs, not data or model)
DESCRIPTION TEXT
Optimization as a Service that bolts on top of an existing ML or AI pipeline to automatically and optimally tune it.
©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
HD Mapping for Safe Autonomy
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TECHNIQUE:
Sensing via sensor fusion, mapping & localization, ML to add semantics and understand traffic patterns, scale out serving infrastructure
DESCRIPTION TEXT
HD Mapping as Service that creates and locates vehicles on a 3D map with centimeter accuracy at 80 mph
Roundabout
Complicated Intersection
What Do We Look For?Transition Subtitle Goes Here
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More specifically: What do we look for in an AI startup
that’s different from the other startups we invest in?
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Answer:
Nothing
Big Market
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©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.
Technical Founders With the Right Kind of Ambition
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Product-Market Fit
PRODUCT
MARKET
FIT
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Founder-Product Fit
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Durable Defensive Moat
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Attractive Unit Economics (or Other Operating Metrics)
LTV > CAC = 😀 CAC > LTV = 😩
Fast Growth
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If You Are an AI StartupPlease do not let me stump you on the basics
What machine learning techniques are you using?
Why those techniques? How well do they work?
What business benefits can you deliver with those techniques?
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©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.©2017 Andreessen Horowitz. Proprietary and confidential.