
Episode 8: Talking AI: From Launch to Exit with Serial Founder Naveen Rao
30 min listen
Interest and investment in AI is soaring. What should founders know? What does the future hold?
Listen to serial AI entrepreneur Naveen Rao talk with Orrick’s Mark Seneca about:
- The vision behind Naveen's first deep learning startup, Nervana Systems, which was sold to Intel in 2016 (4:21)
- The story behind the $1.3B sale of MosaicML, the leading generative AI company Naveen founded, to Databricks (7:50)
- A framework Naveen uses to determine whether a potential acquisition makes sense (11:30)
- Why mentors matter (19:36)
- The “singular pattern” he sees defining AI for the next 3 to 5 years – and how it may play out in fields from law and finance to medicine (21:50)