S12 E22: Alex Bowcut, Sphere

About this episode

Alex Bowcut shares his journey from interest in computers to creating AI solutions at Sphere.

Alex Bowcut is from Salt Lake City, Utah originally, but has been in the Bay Area for the last 4 years. He's always been interested in computers, and was in middle school when smartphones were blooming. He took part in jailbreaking gadgets and such, and all of these things led to a natural interest in CS, mathematics - and eventually, startups. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 Australian shepherds. He and his wife enjoy hiking with the dogs, and skiing - unfortunately, without the dogs. Alex was approached by the founder of his current venture. He was approached while he was working at another startup, to tackle the creation of AI control and scaling within the company internally. When he joined, he immediately started changing the game in creating the initial version of their assessment model, TRAM. This is Alex's creation story at Sphere. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at…

People in this episode

Host: Noah Labhart

Guest: Alex Bowcut

Topics covered

• AI
• startups
• technology
• entrepreneurship
• software development

Keywords

• AI control
• startups
• assessment model
• TRAM
• entrepreneurship

Sponsors

Cash App, Plaud AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sphere

Places: Salt Lake City, Bay Area

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