Celine Halioua is the founder and CEO of Loyal, a clinical-stage animal health company developing the first longevity drugs for dogs. Since founding Loyal in 2019, she has raised over $250 million and has led the company through several historic regulatory milestones. In this conversation with Stanford Adjunct Lecturer Ravi Belani, Halioua (accompanied by her dog, Squishy) discusses how she gained conviction to start Loyal and how she navigated fundraising, risk, and establishing milestones for a biotech company as a solo female founder.

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Carina Hong is the founder and CEO of Axiom, an AI company building a self-improving, superintelligent reasoner, starting with an AI mathematician. In this conversation with Stanford Adjunct Lecturer Ravi Belani, Hong explains the technical challenges of pursuing mathematical breakthroughs using AI, as well as the human challenges of fundraising, finding talent, and motivating employees in a rapidly changing AI industry.

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Michael Bernstein is a co-founder and the chief data officer of Simile, where he works on AI systems for behavioral simulation. He is also a professor of computer science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. In this presentation, followed by a conversation with Stanford Adjunct Lecturer Ravi Belani, Bernstein reflects on what his year of focusing on Simile taught him about human-centered design, gaining customers’ trust, building a cross-functional organization, and preparing for a new era of transformative AI applications.

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