Goldman Sachs Honors Volley.com CTO Carson Kahn for Entrepreneurship
July 31 2018 - 8:30AM
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Carson Kahn Among Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing
Entrepreneurs of 2018
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will recognize Carson S. Kahn, founder
and CTO of artificial intelligence firm Volley (volley.com), as one
of its 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2018 at the bank’s
prestigious Builders + Innovators Summit in San Francisco.
Goldman Sachs will celebrate Kahn among entrepreneurs from
multiple industries to be honored at the three-day Summit. Previous
honorees include Barbara Bush II (Global Health Corps), John Foley
(Peleton), Daniel Saks (AppDirect), Jyoti Bansal (AppDynamics),
Kunal Sarkar (Lumosity), D. Scott Phoenix (Vicarious), and Leah
Busque (TaskRabbit).
Kahn is the CTO and cofounder of Volley (volley.com), a Silicon
Valley AI company backed by strategic investor JPMorgan Chase
(NYSE: JPM), Zuckerberg Ventures, and high-profile current and
former executives from Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Apple (NASDAQ:
AAPL), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), and Udemy. Kahn is also an invited
member of the Forbes Technology Council and IEEE Society for
Computational Intelligence.
With Kahn’s leadership, Volley’s “knowledge engine” has gained
rapid traction in Fortune 500 financial services to computationally
synthesize the world’s enterprise knowledge. A recognized innovator
and entrepreneur in artificial intelligence and education
technology, Kahn’s work is covered in the Harvard Business Review,
Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Reuters, Dow Jones, PatternML, and
elsewhere. His advisory on questions in machine learning and
cybersecurity has been solicited by members of the Congressional
Caucus on Artificial Intelligence, the White House National
Economic Council, and state governments.
“We are pleased to recognize Carson as one of the most
intriguing entrepreneurs of 2018. This will be the seventh year
that we’ve hosted the Builders + Innovators Summit, where emerging
business leaders gather to discuss their common interests in
building prosperous organizations," said Goldman Sachs, noting that
both incoming Chief Executive Officer David M. Solomon and outgoing
Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein will host.
“His leadership in both Volley’s fast-growing business and
innovative product makes Carson highly deserving of this award,”
said Don Duet, former Global Head of Technology at Goldman Sachs,
now also a Senior Advisor to Volley. “This is clearly just the
beginning for Volley’s exceptional cofounders and team in helping
the world learn faster and more dynamically with artificial
intelligence.”
“I’m truly humbled. Volley is on track for an year of amazing
growth, and we owe this success to my cofounder Zaid, our VP of
Engineering Patrick, and our incredible AI team,” said Carson Kahn,
CTO and cofounder of Volley (volley.com). “Volley is creatively
combining unique natural language understanding technologies with a
fundamentally new approach to the design of learning products. Only
a team of this caliber could accomplish something that important
and ambitious.”
“Carson’s visionary but practical application of the latest
natural language research is unique in my experience,” said Dr.
Paul Walker, PhD, former Global Co-Head of Technology at Goldman
Sachs, also a Senior Advisor to Volley. “Carson and his team are
applying one of the hardest areas of AI to some of the most
important problems in enterprise learning and knowledge management.
It remains an exceptional pleasure to advise Carson and his
cofounder Zaid as they build and innovate the human learning system
we deserve in today’s era of machine learning.”
“Even as every employee now needs to be a knowledge worker, our
world is facing a ‘knowledge explosion’ like never before,” said
Zaid Rahman, CEO of Volley and a recipient of Peter Thiel’s
prestigious Thiel Fellowship. “Volley’s mission to synthesize the
world’s knowledge with artificial intelligence will ultimately help
anyone learn anything. We’re grateful to Goldman Sachs for
recognizing my cofounder Carson and Volley with this honor.”
For more than 145 years, Goldman Sachs has been advising and
financing entrepreneurs as they launch and grow their businesses.
In addition to honoring 100 entrepreneurs, the October 17 Summit
consists of general sessions and clinics led by Goldman Sachs
experts, seasoned entrepreneurs, academics and business leaders as
well as resident scholars.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS — Founded in 1869, The Goldman
Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking,
securities and investment management firm that provides a wide
range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client
base that includes corporations, financial institutions,
governments and individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York
and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the
world.
ABOUT VOLLEY — Backed by such investors as JPMorgan
Chase, Zuckerberg Ventures, and executives from Apple, Dropbox, and
Goldman Sachs, Volley (volley.com) is a Silicon Valley AI startup
on a mission to synthesize the world’s knowledge. Built by a
world-class team of machine learning and natural language
processing innovators formerly of Google, the U.S. intelligence
community, Carnegie Mellon, and top Wall Street tech divisions,
Volley’s knowledge engine cuts the cost of generating, organizing,
and delivering key knowledge by up to 50% — a giant leap in
the automation and personalization of enterprise learning and
knowledge management. With customers throughout Fortune 100
financial services, Volley has been identified as a top AI
innovator and is a seminal partner of the UC Santa Cruz Center for
Excellence in Data Science Research. Volley’s core team is
headquartered in San Francisco, with a satellite in Austin. Watch
Volley’s 2-minute teaser at volley.com/video, or learn more at
www.volley.com.
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