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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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My business partner – Anton and I started Fantastic Services as a solution to a problem. And now, 8 years later, Fantastic Services has become a multi-national, multi-operational company working in the UK, Australia, and the US. I saw old operating and fundraising habits that hurt leagues and cut kids off from access to sports.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

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Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. You can see why I'm known as an AI guy. We found each other. And he told me.