Our guest today is Youri Moscovic, Co-Founder and CEO of Prediko, an AI startup which is doing smart inventory planning for e-commerce businesses.
In our conversation, we start by exploring the differences and similarities between AI and Operational Research (OR), a field that Youri specialised in during his master at the London School of Economics.
We then focus on his first job at Satalia, an enterprise AI firm where he started as an intern but quickly became the Head of Solutions after a couple of years only. Youri talks about how he managed the development of AI and OR algorithms to help businesses like DFS or Tesco save millions of pounds. He also gives advice on how to grow and quickly progress inside a company.
We finally dig into the world of AI startups. Youri explains why he created Prediko and how he uses machine learning to help small and medium e-commerce brands better plan their inventory. We talk about the difficulties behind building a startup and discuss the tradeoff between deep learning and more traditional algorithms for business applications.
Throughout the conversation, Youri also shares various advice on how to advance in your career, how to become a good Data Scientist and how to build your own AI startup.