322: How AI is Revolutionizing Finance and Decision-Making: Insights from wunderkind George Sivulka, Hebbia CEO

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George Sivulka, hailed as a wunderkind by Peter Thiel, is the founder of Hebbia, a groundbreaking AI company revolutionizing financial research. Having worked at NASA as a teenager, he later earned a math degree from Stanford in just 2.5 years. George has secured $130M in funding for Hebbia at a $700M valuation, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and Thiel himself. Hebbia’s AI platform, trusted by firms like Centerview Partners and Charlesbank, has driven a 15x revenue growth in 18 months by pioneering RAG techniques that ensure LLM outputs remain within company-sanctioned data.
In this conversation, we discuss:

• How Hebbia is reshaping financial research with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• The leap from academia to entrepreneurship—how George Sivulka turned research into real-world impact.
• The expanding role of AI in high-stakes industries where precision is critical.
• The ethical challenges of AI and how transparency can make or break trust.
• Why AI agents will change knowledge work—but not in the way you might think.
• The future of AI-powered research and its impact on decision-making.

Resources:

• Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter: https://aiandwork.beehiiv.com/subscribe
  Connect with Sivulka on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivulka/
• AI fun fact article: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/what-ai-sees-market-that-you-might-not
• On How AI-Powered Writing is reshaping Enterprise Content Creation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/may-habib-ceo-of-writer-discusses-llms-and-the/id1476885647?i=1000628256870