In October, the ClearCOGS team had the pleasure of attending the CREATE conference in Nashville. While on site, we got to catch up with Maria Zhang of Palona.AI and former VP of Engineering at Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and CTO at Tinder. Check out our conversation below.
Since she unboxed her first computer, Maria believes in the power of software to change people’s lives. Great software is a change agent; it has the power to make people infinitely more productive, to entertain them, to free them with information, and connect them to other people, new opportunities and ideas everywhere.
To do this, Maria believes in engineering with purpose. Build great teams, instill them with a mission, and push them hard to deliver satisfying experiences. Everything you do, every line of code you write, needs to be instilled with purpose: every pixel should be perfect, and every byte of data needs a reason to exist.
Maria has built software with intelligence, from personalized news feed, targeted Ads, to estimate the current value of your home. Now with much expanded compute capacity, scale and availability of training data, AI has achieved a new level of capabilities, consumer awareness and impact to business, socially and individually. She is more excited today than ever on this journey to build powerful AI to enable businesses and empower people around the world.
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