Episode 63 - Transfer Learning, Career Cliffs, and Investing for the Future with Bethany Crystal of USV
Today’s interview is with Bethany Crystal at Union Square Ventures. We cover a lot of ground
Building Network Effects as a means to Market Power
Building Careers, avoiding the career cliff
Inspiration from the Idea of Transfer Learning
Diversification in investments and in the self
I also talk about the launch of the Luminary Podcast Network: luminarypodcasts.com
Also - get my take on Google’s ill-fated AI Ethics panel.
About Bethany Crystal
Bethany Crystal is the General Manager of the portfolio network at Union Square Ventures, where she facilitates connections and shared learning opportunities among their 80+ active portfolio companies. Previously, Bethany managed customer experience marketing at Stack Overflow, the world’s largest developer resource. She co-founded the educational initiative Beyond Coding and sits on the boards of Comp Sci High, a new charter school in the Bronx, and the Northwestern University Alumni Association.
Bethany’s Blog, Dry Erase
Article: Mantras of the Year
Article: Avoiding the Career Cliff
Article: The Four Box Job Search
Article: Moderating a Panel
Bethany’s Twitter: @BethanyMarz
Union Square Ventures
Related Links
Luminary Launch! Checkout luminarypodcasts.com, and subscribe to the Local Maximum there.
Understanding the research behind transfer learning:
Machine Learning Mastery: Transfer Learning for Deep Learning
Towards Data Science: Deep Transfer Learning for NLP
https://machinelearningmastery.com/transfer-learning-for-deep-learning/
Vox: Google Cancels AI Ethics Board
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Episode 58 with Mark Weiss, another career focused episode with someone with a Journalism Degree who went into software
Episode 57 on using analogies to infer whether an idea will work in another context
Episode 56 with a quick description of Convolutional Neural Nets (fake faces)
Episode 45 with Maryam Aly inside Google
Episode 23 on Natural Language Processing
Episode 3 on Foursquare’s Venue Rating System
