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Jon Epstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So next year, I'm sure we'll spend more per show.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So far, to date, it's been $143 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

And the building of the platform itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So Ascendian has about 110 employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

And I think we've got about 15 or 20 positions open right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

About a quarter of those are focused on Ascend, a quarter on Aware, a quarter on the, maybe a fifth on the hedge fund business, and then the remainder are focused on our core platform and then just general G&A.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So I'm not a founder of Cine, and I was their headhunter, and then I joined the CMO, and then now in this international role.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So the company was founded in 2007, and the founders were Anton Blondeau, who's our co-chairman, Babak Hojats, who is our CEO, and then the third founder was Adam Chayer, who went on to be the head of Siri.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Hey, what you're seeing today, we haven't seen anything yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

The world will not be recognizable from a technology standpoint 10 years from now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

And some would even say five.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Things are changing so quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

And I think I forget who it was that said this recently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

It was Mark Cuban.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

The words for trillionaires will come out of AI.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

You know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

I'm not the founder of Cineon, so that won't be me, but maybe some of the... You have some equity though, right?