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By Ron Miller
December 5, 2023
When Respell founder Matthew Rastovac was in high school, he did an internship where his job was to copy information from a government website into a spreadsheet. It was mind-numbing work, so being an enterprising young man, he wrote some code to automate the task. These days, his company helps non-technical employees take advantage of […]
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Simplify looks to AI to help with job searches and applications
Job searching is a drag by any measure. Entering the same information intonapplications over and over even more so. It feels like a process that is ripenfor a digital update, and Simplify, an early stage startup is trying to do thatnby combining questionnaires, job scraping, job matching, auto fillingnapplications and help […]
Feb 7, 2024
Gusto’s head of technology says hiring an army of specialists is the wrong approach to AI
As founders plan for an increasingly AI-centric future, Gusto co-founder and head of technology Edward Kim said that cutting existing teams and hiring a bunch of specially trained AI engineers is “the wrong way to go.” Instead, he argued that non-technical team members can “actually have a much deeper understanding than an average engineer on what situations the customer can get themselves into, what they’re confused about,” putting them in a better position to guide the features that should be
Oct 20, 2024
CTGT aims to make AI models safer
Growing up as an immigrant, Cyril Gorlla taught himself how to code — and practiced as if a man possessed. “I aced my mother’s community college programming course at 11, amidst periodically disconnected household utilities,” he told TechCrunch. In high school, Gorlla learned about AI, and became so obsessed with the idea of training his own AI models that he took apart his laptop to upgrade the internal cooling. This tinkering led to an internship at Intel during Gorlla’s second year in colle
Oct 29, 2024
GovWell is bringing automation and efficiency to local governments
Government websites aren’t known for cutting-edge tech. GovWell co-founder andnCTO Ben Cohen discovered this while trying to help his dad, a contractor, applynfor building permits. Cohen worked as a full stack engineer at Uber during thenday and faxed documents for building permits at night. The difference in technwas stark. Years later, […]
Jul 29, 2024