Francisco Larrain

Hey, how are you?

Amit puts his hands dirty on the product and I try to build and manage the algorithm part of the system.

Means that I could make decisions based on whatever I wanted on the investments.

And this was a hedge fund that, you know, I ran previously in Chile and for

who became the president of the country, Sebastian Piñera.

So it was his family office or his own money, but it operated like a hedge fund and a very successful one.

When I arrived there, the size of the hedge fund was 300 million.

And when I left, it was 2.5 billion.

So we had a really good ride there.

And but, you know, I really wanted to move into the creativity aspect of things.

I was very strong technically.

So I decided to come to the GSB to do at Stanford to do an MBA.

And out of that, I started building my career as an entrepreneur here in the Valley.

like an immigrant and, you know, trying to create jobs and disrupt industries.

Well, both are money, but definitely the entrepreneur side, because the money part is like you're making rich people richer.

Here you're like, you know, trying to use technology to like change the way that people communicate and the way people kind of like become more productive.

If everything goes well.

Yes, if everything goes well.

Yeah.

There is a lot of talk about, you know, Salesforce, Einstein, and how do you use machine learning and big data to get insights out of your data?