#125: Ari Kaplan - Head of Evangelism Databricks | Deep Insights on Sports, AI, and Data Analytics The Petcash Pod 🌐
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“The Real Moneyball Guy”, the popular movie was partly based on Ari’s analytical and scouting experiences innovating Major League Baseball.
Ari Kaplan created and led the Chicago Cubs analytics department, head of evangelism at DataBricks, Caltech Alumni of the Decade, and Intel’s AI Board of Advisors.
DataBricks is one of the largest private companies in the world with over $1.6 billion in 2023 revenue.
Chapters:
(04:10) Exciting new sports tech
(07:35) Background in sports
(10:20) Evolution of analytics
(15:00) Machine vs human decision making
(20:00) Traditional AI vs Gen AI
(27:45) AGI
(29:00) Advice for building in sports
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Ari Kaplan:
Website: https://www.databricks.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arikaplan/
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Andrew Petcash:
🏠 Website: https://profluence.com
🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewpetcash
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpetcash/
Thanks for listening! Hit the “follow” button to stay updated on new podcasts.
“The Real Moneyball Guy”, the popular movie was partly based on Ari’s analytical and scouting experiences innovating Major League Baseball.
Ari Kaplan created and led the Chicago Cubs analytics department, head of evangelism at DataBricks, Caltech Alumni of the Decade, and Intel’s AI Board of Advisors.
DataBricks is one of the largest private companies in the world with over $1.6 billion in 2023 revenue.
Chapters:
(04:10) Exciting new sports tech
(07:35) Background in sports
(10:20) Evolution of analytics
(15:00) Machine vs human decision making
(20:00) Traditional AI vs Gen AI
(27:45) AGI
(29:00) Advice for building in sports
.
Ari Kaplan:
Website: https://www.databricks.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arikaplan/
.
Andrew Petcash:
🏠 Website: https://profluence.com
🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewpetcash
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpetcash/
Thanks for listening! Hit the “follow” button to stay updated on new podcasts.
32 min