Hard Learned Lessons from Over a Decade in AI

Tecton⁠ Founder and CEO Mike Del Balso talks about what ML/AI use cases are core components generating Millions in revenue. Demetrios and Mike go through the maturity curve that predictive Machine Learning use cases have gone through over the past 5 years, and why a feature store is a primary component of an ML stack.

// Bio

Mike Del Balso is the CEO and co-founder of Tecton, where he’s building the industry’s first feature platform for real-time ML. Before Tecton, Mike co-created the Uber Michelangelo ML platform. He was also a product manager at Google, where he managed the core ML systems that power Google’s Search Ads business. He studied Applied Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.

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Website: ⁠www.tecton.ai⁠

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Smarter decisions, less manual work

[03:52] Data pipelines: pain and fixes

[08:45] Why Tecton was born

[11:30] ML use cases shift

[14:14] Models for big bets

[18:39] Build or buy drama

[20:20] Fintech's data playbook

[23:52] What really needs real-time

[28:07] Speeding up ML delivery

[32:09] Valuing ML is tricky

[35:29] Simplifying ML toolkits

[37:18] AI copilots in action

[42:13] AI that fights fraud

[45:07] Teaming up across coasts

[46:43] Tecton + Generative AI?