Smartketers #5 - Lomit Patel

01/06/2021 17 min

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Episode Synopsis

The fifth episode of the Smartketers Podcast: conversations with marketers using artificial (and human) intelligence to make smarter decisions.  
During this episode, we talked with Lomit Patel, VP of Growth at IMVU. 
He is also the author of the best-selling book Lean AI: How Innovative Startups Use Artificial Intelligence to Grow, which is part of Eric Ries' "The Lean Startup" series.  
00:00 - About Lomit 
02:00 - Machines thinking and acting as humans 
03:00 - Machine Learning for product recommendation 
04:00 - AI for User Acquisition: how to spend your media budget more efficiently 
05:00 - Right audience, right creative: running thousand of experiments with AI 
05:30 - Predicting user behavior: churn, engagement, and monetization 
08:00 - Getting people excited to use AI to become more efficient 
12:00 - AI in Startups  - Doing more with less 
13:00 - Check and Balances when working with AI 
16:30 - The AI mindset: being curious and open to change  
Lomit's book Lean AI: How Innovative Startups Use Artificial Intelligence to Grow, can be found at www.theleanai.com 
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