Iterative Venture Podcast

This episode is a recorded version of Iterative Venture's Data Science panel discussion event hosted on September 24th, 2021. Our panelists were Vijaye Raji, CEO and founder of Statsig, Krishna Gade, CEO and founder of Fiddler AI, Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital, Ravi Grover, General Partner at Data Tech Fund. The panels shared their perspectives on the current landscape of the Data Science startup ecosystem, the importance of data-driven decision-making culture in building products, and tools that the founders in the panel are building such as Statsig's Product Experimentation tool and Fiddler's Explainable AI.

We had a special guest, Wayne Hu, General Partner at SignalFire, to learn about how he searches for evidence of attributes that make successful founders, such as learning agility, grit, and intense desire to win, and how VCs interpret the signal into an investment decision.

We invited Franklyn Chien, CEO and co-founder of PrizePool. PrizePool is a revolutionary FinTech startup gamifying the savings experience with its mission to incentivize Americans to save more and build a better financial foundation. In today's episode, we discussed with Frank how he took the lessons learned from his first startup, LearnSprout, to his new startup and unlocked the massive early growth within the first year of PrizePool.

We invited Krishna Gade, CEO and co-founder of Fiddler AI. Fiddler is one of the fastest-growing AI companies that unlock the AI black box with continuous monitoring and 360-degree explainability. In this interview, we discussed how Krishna got started with the idea, technical details around the concept around Explainable/ Responsible AI, and his hiring/ management philosophy inspired by his time at Facebook.

Iterative Venture is a community led by Facebook alumni and current employees who are passionate about entrepreneurship. We are a group of founders, angel investors, and avid learners who want to learn and grow with other like-minded people.

In this podcast we share the learning stories behind the successful business that the founders and investors in our community have built. We dive deep into their journey to bring out the most concrete stories around how they got started and their continuous iterations to break through the hard problems.