Cody Coleman (Coactive AI) - Starting from ‘Why’

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Cody Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI, an analytics platform for visual content. Coactive AI leverages artificial intelligence to make it easy for enterprise companies to search, filter, and analyze large amounts of image and video data by bringing structure to unstructured data. In this presentation, Coleman shares how his life story has shaped the type of entrepreneur he aims to be. He gives advice for fellow founders who want to build positive company cultures and teams.

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:04.0	Brought to you by Stanford E.CORN.
0:07.0	Welcome everybody to the kickoff session of E.TL.
0:11.0	This is E.T.L, the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar,
0:16.0	which is a Stanford seminar for aspiring entrepreneurs.
0:19.0	ETL is presented by STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the management science and engineering department at Stanford and the director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups. Today we are thrilled to kick off the new year of ETL with Cody Coleman, one of our own.
0:43.3	Cody got his PhD in computer science from Stanford, and I believe Cody got a perfect 4.0 GPA
0:48.3	as a PhD in computer science at Stanford. He has his bachelor's and his master's in
0:53.3	computer science and electrical
0:54.2	engineering from MIT, but Cody is most famous for being the CEO of Coactive AI, which is a startup
1:01.6	funded by Andresen Horowitz and Bessemer and others, which is really on the mission of allowing
1:07.6	humans and machines to work better together. And with using AI and starting with using AI for enterprises to search, filter and analyze data
1:18.4	from video and image and unstructured data feeds towards structured data.
1:23.4	That is one of several hats that Cody wears.
1:26.3	Cody is also the founding member of ML Commons,
1:29.2	a collaborative engineering organization
1:32.0	focused on developing the AI ecosystem.
1:34.7	His work spans from high performance deep learning
1:37.4	to data-centric AI.
1:39.1	And Cody's also an advisor to NZVC,
1:41.4	which funds early stage startups in New Zealand.
1:44.2	He's also, his story is featured as a vignette, also in the book, Grit.
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