H2O is bringing AI to business and building
a grassroots movement of data science, data
engineers, business professionals and design
thinkers who can now go take artificial intelligence
to businesses.
We have more than 1,000 companies that are
daily depending on H2O.
Capital One has been a phenomenal partner
for us.
They give us a lot of feedback – what algorithms
to build, what the future roadmap looks like,
what is the net leap from being just a technology
company to a business company that we’ve
become.
I think it’s a great training ground for
entrepreneurs to work with such a great investor,
partner and then allow you to be ready for
even bigger opportunities.
One of the things we get back in return of
course is we are a very open source company.
We build communities, we build brands from
nothing.
Capital One is a phenomenal supporter of open
source and has been for a long time, and I
think now they’re actually trying to become
creators of communities in open source – not
just consumers of open source products.
One of the interesting, most stunning aspects
of what Capital One has done for us in the
last few months if you will, they did a dive-in
to H2O conference.
It was a whole day of H2O users at Capital
One.
We just opened the keynote, showed the roadmap,
but the rest of the talk were all H2O users
within Capital One telling about their experiences
and why those chose H2O and other technologies,
even going beyond and showing what they did
with it.
New business units and use cases now arise
almost daily at Capital One for H2O.
I think what that has done is really dramatically
increased adoption within one company, but
gave us use cases to go work for other businesses
as well.
The net net of that has been a really big
compounding of where things are heading, towards
democratization of the algorithms within Capital
One and in the broader sphere looking at the
use cases we use across several companies.
Capital One is a distribute company within
the US and we’ve actually managed to work
with different groups.
The San Francisco group, which happens to
be right next to Silicon Valley, as well as
the Dallas team who is doing auto loans and
auto finance, and the DC, McLean and Richmond
groups which are working in the fraud as well
as credit card businesses.
I think what we are finding really exciting
about the partnership is here’s a corporate
investor that typically gets this badge as
a corporate investor, who is able to take
these bold moves and invest in young startups
like ours and is growing them to be megastars
in the space.
And I think that’s what we are seeing from
them, and then we have also had other customers
in these continents who have now begun to
build stronger partnerships because of the
trust we built with one large company like
Capital One.
One of the interesting nuances of Capital
One is its culture.
It’s a very flat culture, even though it’s
very distributed.
It has kept its roots of trying to almost
democratize credit, and I think one of the
things that we get out of it is we democratize
data science and machine learning.
With Capital One, we are able to touch more
lives because they democratize credit itself.
