Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Alex Spinelli (@liveperson) is an AI expert, the former head of Alexa OS for Amazon and current CTO of LivePerson and Maven, an AI-powered conversational commerce company, helping brands like Delta, HSBC, and Home Depot leverage AI bots

Before joining Amazon, Alex served as CTO of McCann Worldgroup — one of the world’s largest marketing organizations with 24,000 employees across more than 100 countries — and CTO for North America and Asia-Pacific at AXA Technologies, where he built large-scale grid computing for predictive modeling.

Full episode ---- http://disruptors.fm/156-former-alexa-head-on-amazon-ai-tech-monopolies-and-future-of-voice-computing-alex-spinelli

In today's episode we discuss:

- How Alex and his team built Alexa into a juggernaut
- What the future of voice computing holds
- Why Alex is more worried about Facebook and Google than Amazon
- What automation will do to jobs and the economy
- How Amazon wins in the markets they attack and why Alex says they aren't a monopoly
- The issue with IoT and huge security risks
- Why educating consumers/citizens is the MOST important
- Is privacy dead and what do we do about it?
- What do we do about big tech and regulation
- Why Alex is worried about privacy and data transparency
- Thoughts on corporate responsibility
- When will we have a post-money world
- What's the status of autonomous vehicles in 10 years


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