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Stephen Stuut

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
315 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

That makes a lot of sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

And then tell me more kind of about team here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So you came in, again, in 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

What was the team size then, and what is it now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

The team size was probably around 90, 95 in the West and is now about 110, 115 in the West and about 500 in India and now 1,000 in India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So total, call it about 1,500?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

And what is the going into kind of user acquisition, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So I'm curious, the India team, is this kind of a software product that is then verified by a human that you pay very little in India to kind of make sure it all checks out?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Like, why is that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

What's that big team in India doing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Well, interestingly, what this is, is this is a hybrid blend of computer vision, facial recognition and industry experts in a single integrated system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

This is not a did the automatic thing not figure it out, throw it to the humans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

It's actually an integrated process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So a lot of the automation may be to assist an expert.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Interestingly, which you didn't go over my background, I start off my life, which is incidental to why I was hired.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

I'm an optical engineer by training, designed laser weapons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So I know a lot about optics and a computer vision system can do a lot, but it really has a lot of trouble if the image isn't perfect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

And let's face it, if I said you can take a picture wherever, people take crappy pictures at Starbucks in bad lighting with a laptop that has a fixed focus camera.