Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Meet Joyce Shen, a venture investor focused on emerging technology and AI companies. Learn about startups, acquisitions, and mergers on this episode of People of AI. Joyce shares her career journey in statistics and economics and how she brought her unique experience into building a model for IBM to apply to acquisitions and evaluate startups. Ashley, Gus, and Joyce talk about challenges that businesses are currently facing to integrate or acquire other AI businesses, building trust amongst customers and consumers, and much more.
Resources:
Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI → https://goo.gle/3MzNwxi
Berkley courses → https://goo.gle/47lLXef
Books:
From Talking to Doing: A Short Guide to Corporate Innovation Success
Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/40tnaT8
Check it out on Barnes & Noble → https://goo.gle/3MButCz
Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond: The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain: Taking Stock and Lessons Learned
Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/3SACPhE
Check it out on Risk→ https://goo.gle/3udEL5r
Watch more People of AI → https://goo.gle/PAI
Subscribe to the TensorFlow channel → https://goo.gle/TensorFlow
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
02:12 - Joyce's career journey
06:46 - Combining interests to carve a unique career path
10:59 - Intro to corporate development
14:05 - What makes successful and unsuccessful acquisitions
15:56 - Building an ML model to predict successful integration of startups at IBM
18:37 - Creating technological innovation at Thomson Reuters
23:21 - How to fuel corporate innovation
25:27 - Acquisition challenges
28:20 - Joyce getting into ML
#AI #ML #TensorFlow
Meet Joyce Shen, a venture investor focused on emerging technology and AI companies. Learn about startups, acquisitions, and mergers on this episode of People of AI. Joyce shares her career journey in statistics and economics and how she brought her unique experience into building a model for IBM to apply to acquisitions and evaluate startups. Ashley, Gus, and Joyce talk about challenges that businesses are currently facing to integrate or acquire other AI businesses, building trust amongst customers and consumers, and much more.
Resources:
Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI → https://goo.gle/3MzNwxi
Berkley courses → https://goo.gle/47lLXef
Books:
From Talking to Doing: A Short Guide to Corporate Innovation Success
Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/40tnaT8
Check it out on Barnes & Noble → https://goo.gle/3MButCz
Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond: The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain: Taking Stock and Lessons Learned
Check it out Amazon → https://goo.gle/3SACPhE
Check it out on Risk→ https://goo.gle/3udEL5r
Watch more People of AI → https://goo.gle/PAI
Subscribe to the TensorFlow channel → https://goo.gle/TensorFlow
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
02:12 - Joyce's career journey
06:46 - Combining interests to carve a unique career path
10:59 - Intro to corporate development
14:05 - What makes successful and unsuccessful acquisitions
15:56 - Building an ML model to predict successful integration of startups at IBM
18:37 - Creating technological innovation at Thomson Reuters
23:21 - How to fuel corporate innovation
25:27 - Acquisition challenges
28:20 - Joyce getting into ML
#AI #ML #TensorFlow
