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Solmaz Shahalizadeh

@solmaz_sh

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Data Advisor/Investor, Founding Partner @backboneangels , ex VP, Head of Data Science & Engineering @Shopify, @morganstanley @McGillU. She/her.

Ottawa, Canada
Joined December 2009
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@solmaz_sh
Solmaz Shahalizadeh
9 months
turbopuffer is now GA ๐Ÿ˜
@turbopuffer
turbopuffer
10 months
turbopuffer is generally available. petabytes in prod. https://t.co/lxF96xJ7OU
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@ultravox_dot_ai
Ultravox AI
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Today we're releasing Ultravox v0.5, the next iteration of our open-weight speech language model With this release, we've closed the gap with proprietary models. Ultravox now outperforms GPT-4o Realtime & Gemini 1.5 Flash on key benchmarks for speech understanding ๐Ÿงต
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@solmaz_sh
Solmaz Shahalizadeh
1 year
This is a really cool one from @gadget_dev team, get on the waitlist to try it for yourself!
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Mohammad
1 year
ยซย Hey Gadget, build me a CRM.ย ยป A single prompt in one end. A fully hosted, well designed internal tool out the other end, in under 4 minutes. Full code accessible and editable with further prompting (or by hand). Beta opens in weeks. Waitlist at https://t.co/ryKzD1GQTr.
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
2 years
100%, seeing this everyday in practice. The good news is you can start collecting higher quality data any minute and improve the quality of LLM powered products and experiences as a result.
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Shreya Shankar
2 years
the biggest barrier to fine tuning LLMs is not cost or modeling or systems expertise anymore, but in collecting high-quality data. itโ€™s hard to do for custom tasks. people try to use gpt 4 as a data generator, which seems ok at a glance but is full of random mistakes at scale
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
2 years
@BessemerVP Take a look at the article, Iโ€™d love to know your thoughts and how this compares to your experience! My personal fav: Following up any analysis with : โ€œSo what?โ€ What does this analysis tell us about our product and users and most importantly what should we do next?
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
2 years
Data is only as valuable as the action it drives & opportunities it creates. However, going from a well laid out data strategy to leveraging data for impact is hard. Working @BessemerVP, I 've shared 15 tips that in my experience have helped startups get more out of their data.
@BessemerVP
Bessemer
2 years
Learn 15 essential data tips & techniques for startup founders ๐Ÿ“ˆ โœ… Set up your initial data infrastructure โœ… Decide what to track โœ… Establish data trust โœ… Drive growth and product innovation โœ… Lay the foundation to build ML/AI products Read on
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
2 years
Haven't been this excited for a course in a long time: best in class instructors, guest speakers, credits and community ๐Ÿ‘
@eugeneyan
Eugene Yan
2 years
Modal! Replicate! LangSmith! Jarvis Labs! HuggingFace! When your powers combined, we will finetune & serve some LLMs (with almost $2k worth of credits!) https://t.co/3RC3qCFLI3
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@Yael_Schiff
Yael Schiff
2 years
The emergence of the 'data shift right' phenomenon underscores the imperative to democratize data, empowering professionals across diverse functions to become self-sufficient. Join @amitkarp @LindseyLi_ and me as we dive deeper into these trends ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Bessemer
2 years
AI is transforming the data stack. On Atlas, @amitkarp, @Yael_Schiff, @LindseyLi_ explore the ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐’๐ก๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐‘๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ market and how startups like @Seam_AI and @Preql_ are leading the way. ๐Ÿ’ก https://t.co/iHmEDTtf3c
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@modal
Modal
2 years
Modal + @tryramp ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ’› Learn how Ramp used Modal to tailor their LLM fine-tuning workflows, driving down the volume of receipts requiring manual intervention by 34% ๐Ÿ“‰ https://t.co/N5aj0rtiik
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modal.com
Find out how Ramp uses Modal to customize open source LLMs to automate receipt processing.
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Ethan Kurzweil
2 years
Some sharp thinking from our Operating Advisor @solmaz_sh on building a high performing data team: https://t.co/fbPbzBAyR0 - includes hiring, structuring, measuring, analyzing - the full gamut! Thanks Solmaz.
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Shopifyโ€™s former Head of Data answers essential questions for founders about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams.
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@Yael_Schiff
Yael Schiff
2 years
How can startups leverage a data strategy to innovate and scale successfully? On Atlas @BessemerVP, @solmaz_sh former Head of Data at Shopify shares what founders need to know about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams.
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bvp.com
Shopifyโ€™s former Head of Data answers essential questions for founders about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams.
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@BessemerVP
Bessemer
2 years
๐—™๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ โ€” ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€? ๐Ÿ“ˆ @Shopify's former Head of Data @solmaz_sh answers essential questions about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams. Dive into our latest guide โžก๏ธ
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
2 years
Your data strategy is intrinsic to innovation and how your startup can successfully scale. On Atlas @BessemerVP, I share what founders need to know about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams. I'd love to know your thoughts! https://t.co/pDSjhS9xWr
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bvp.com
Shopifyโ€™s former Head of Data answers essential questions for founders about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams.
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
2 years
Congrats @aratisharma , @skanwar and the @BetaKit team! ๐Ÿ‘
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Satish Kanwar
2 years
Weโ€™re excited to announce that Good Future, @aratisharma & Iโ€™s family office, is the new majority owner of @BetaKit. We're partnering to fuel the growth of BetaKit's media platform for the future of Canadian tech.
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@sh_reya
Shreya Shankar
2 years
if I could only have one criteria for ML eng or applied AI hiring it would be: when asked about a recent modeling project, did the candidate spend enough time talking about looking at the data & model predictions
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
2 years
Congrats to @modal_labs on their raise, general availability & an amazing product that users love. A big shout out to @bernhardsson's investor updates: they are some of the most succinct yet informative and actionable emails, and I truly look forward to reading them every month.
@modal
Modal
2 years
Modal is generally available today, and we also raised a Series A! https://t.co/omJi8SyjoX
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@ylecun
Yann LeCun
3 years
This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market. Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers Pretrained and fine-tuned
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@selectstarhq
Select Star
3 years
Join @shinjikim and @solmaz_sh virtually or in-person at @DataConnectConf for their fireside chat about Building Effective Data Products in the #ai era. ๐Ÿค– https://t.co/luoWNGyiFZ
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@gadget_dev
Gadget
3 years
Don't miss this today! @harrybrundage is teaching you how to build AI-powered applications using LLMs, LangChain and vector data.๐Ÿค– Register for free to join at 11.00 EDT, or to get the video.๐Ÿ‘‡
@harrybrundage
Harry Brundage
3 years
Giving a free webinar tomorrow on building LLM apps very quickly with Gadget! Gonna talk about what makes LLM apps hard and our new handy tools like the Vector field type to help a lot. Find out more here:
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Solmaz Shahalizadeh
3 years
Congrats to the @FixieAI team! Their product is now available to everyone and it's REALLY easy (and fun) to get started, give it a try: https://t.co/0i6IC666qD I'm so curious to see all the agents everyone will build and the marketplace forming inside the platform!
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ultravox.ai
Ultravox is a real-time voice AI infrastructure layer that powers fast, natural, and scalable voice agents.
@zachk
Zach Koch
3 years
Oh hey, that's us! Really excited to be working with @Redpoint, @MadronaVentures, @ZettaVentures, @SignalFire, @BloombergBeta, and @kearnyjackson. Okay, back to building. https://t.co/jg5ShMJo2O
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