On amanda-ai
- Closing two chapters
I'm leaving TTT Studios after seven and a half years and Amanda AI after three. What I learned growing an engineering team from ten to fifty, and co-founding a company through a pandemic.
2 min reads likes comments - What a face company does when nobody gathers
Three months into the pandemic, with no conferences on the calendar. What we're trying, what we decided not to build, and how it feels to run a startup whose market disappeared.
2 min reads likes comments - MWC is cancelled. Our entire business is people in a room
The world's biggest mobile conference was cancelled over the new coronavirus. A founder's worries, a few weeks in, with friends in Wuhan under lockdown.
2 min reads likes comments - Clearview scraped three billion faces. This is why we built on-device
The New York Times revealed a startup that matches any photo against billions of faces scraped from social media, and sells it to police. The worst version of my industry is now public.
2 min reads likes comments - Why our models train on forty different lobbies
A year of live events taught us that benchmark accuracy barely predicts real-world accuracy. What we changed in how we collect data and evaluate.
2 min reads likes comments - San Francisco banned face recognition. Customers asked if we're next
The ban covers city agencies, not private companies like ours. It still changed a lot of sales conversations this week. Where I think the line should be.
2 min reads likes comments - Thousands of faces in a hotel lobby
Our first live conference check-ins. Wait times dropped a lot. The model was the part that worked from day one. Lighting, queues and printers were not.
2 min reads likes comments - Starting a face recognition company, with eyes open
I've co-founded a company that does face recognition on device. Why on device, why conference check-in first, and the lines we won't cross.
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