... early 2000s, back when "machine learning" was something you had to explain to your manager before you could use it. From there I co-founded two companies, Bixee, a vertical search engine that got acquired by Naspers, and DataRPM, a cognitive AI platform for industrial IoT that got acquired by Progress Software. In between and around all of that, I have spent 25 years obsessing over one question: why is it still so hard to turn a good idea into ...