Clarity on product building, business strategy, and activating your network (if you’re anti-networking) w/ Adam Oliner

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In this episode, we explore the story of Adam Oliner, CEO & Founder @ Graft and discuss his perspectives on building business models, considerations around early business strategy, best practices for activating your network (if you’re anti-networking), and lessons from their recent pre-seed round & product-building bias toward ease of use! Plus, we dive into what it's like to be a founder with young kids, the impact of family on day-to-day operations and company values! ABOUT ADAM OLINER Adam is the CEO & Founder at Graft, which aims to make the AI of the 1% accessible to the 99%. Before that, he led machine learning teams at Slack and Splunk. Adam was a postdoctoral scholar in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, working in the AMP Lab, which specialized in cloud computing and Big Data. He earned a PhD in computer science from Stanford University and a MEng in EECS from MIT, where he also earned degrees in computer science and mathematics. “I would kind of scoff at the like, ‘Oh, it's not what you know, it's who you know,’ because I was an academic. Of course it's what you know. That's the whole point. Now of course I understand that it is in fact both.

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