Data Driven Sales That Scale: Building AI That Sells [Video and Slides]

LeadGenius Co-Founder and Chief Scientist (and YC alum '11), Anand Kulkarni, discusses the future of automated, data driven sales at the SVDE Meetup Group presented by Treasure Data. http://blog.leadgenius.com/data-driven-sales-that-scale-ai-that-sells/ The claim: in 10 years, the job of salespeople will be replaced by artificial intelligence. From the presentation: 1. Company search can be attacked with large-scale crawling, human computation, entity resolution, and careful data updates 2. Buying intent can be deduced automatically based on classifiers but is done better with human computation 3. Email communication is complex, has a lot of interesting subproblems, and is solvable!