Making AI Accessible to All with Braden Hancock

The Business of Open Source

Braden Hancock, Co-founder and Head of Technology at Snorkel AI, joins me to talk about his path from academia to start-up co-founder and his vision to make AI more accessible to both traditional and no-code development.

In this episode, Braden and I explore the journey he and his co-founders took to go from having an interesting idea to forming a company and the strategic business decisions they made along the way, such as why they opted not to use an open-source business model and the educational marketing strategy they’ve adopted.

Highlights:

• Braden discusses his role as co-founder of Snorkel AI. (00:25)
• An introduction to Snorkel Flow, Snorkel AI’s data-centric AI development program and the challenges they solve for. (01:49)
• Snorkel AI’s relationship with open source. (06:30)
• Why Snorkel AI decided not to use an open-source business model in order to lower the barrier to entry. (09:01)
• Snorkel AI’s trajectory coming from academia to the world of start-ups. (12:50)
• The unexpected challenges of building Snorkel AI. (17:50)
• Taking an educational approach to the marketing at Snorkel AI. (22:27)
• Braden discusses the meaningful applications of AI as well as where he sees AI being used as more of a buzzword. (27:27)

Links:

Braden

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradenhancock/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradenjhancock
• Company: snorkel.ai
• Snorkel AI Twitter: https://twitter.com/SnorkelAI