Alex Svanevik
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How are you?
I don't know if I'm an all numbers guy.
You're not?
Numbers guy.
That's right.
Yes, my background is actually in AI.
I like to say that I was in AI before it was cool.
And I worked as a management consultant for a few years.
And then I was a data scientist and a data science manager for a while.
And so, you know, maybe that ages me or dates me somewhat.
But when I graduated...
Actually, there was a front page article, I think, in The Economist that said, data scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century.
So I had to go into data science.
This was 2009, 2010.
Yeah.
Oh wow, that's deep.
I mean, in some ways, as I've grown older, I've kind of started giving more weight to intuition.
Like when I was in data science, we were always trying to kind of arrest people for using intuition.
Like you have to use data, you have to be data informed, data driven.
But I think there's a lot of value in intuition as well.