alchemist accelerator

This bonus episode features conversations from season 1 of the Open||Source||Data podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from Margot Gerritsen, Stanford Professor and Co-Founder/Director of WiDS; Rachel Chalmers, Partner at Alchemist Accelerator; and Patricia Boswell, Staff Technical Writer at Google.

Sam sat down with each guest to discuss cognition and democratization in data. 

You can listen to the full episodes from Margot Gerritsen, Rachel Chalmers, and Patricia Boswell by clicking the links below.

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Episode Timestamps:

(00:18): Margot Gerritsen

(02:07): Rachel Chalmers

(03:46): Patricia Boswell

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Links:

Listen to Margot’s episode

Listen to Rachel’s episode

Listen to Patricia's episode

Filip Dousek is a successful entrepreneur having sold his last company to Workday. He's also the author of Flock Without Birds, a two-part novel that challenges how the whole relates to its parts. Stories, Filip's company, is solving the problem of extracting insights about people from massive datasets to be able to answer questions about diversity, organizational behavior, and skills gaps. He also discusses the challenges of growing a startup in Prague.

Listen and learn...

1. Why enterprises don't use the data they generate to make better decisions
2. The hard technical challenge of extracting insights about people and teams from large datasets
3. What it means to "look at data through the prism of graphs and relationships"
4. Why founding Stories in Prague created an opportunity for talent arbitrage
5. About our defensible advantages as humans vs. AI

Referenced in this episode:

• Alchemist Accelerator
• Workday
• Flock Without Birds