#AcademicRunPlaylist - 11/13/24

It ended up being a crazy day, but before the madness I enjoyed some of OpenForum Europe's symposium at HBS as well as some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a fantastic talk by Ayako Yasuda on whether investors overvalue startups at the Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation (WEFI). Using data from different funding rounds held by mutual funds, Yasuda convincingly demonstrates a significant overvaluation of startups given the preference stack. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0YWZq2TiHU

Next was an engaging conversation between friends of the playlist Michael Levin and Ann Lipton on what it means for someone to "control" a company under corporate law, how minority shareholders can constrain/challenge that control, and binding votes on director pay on the Shareholder Primacy Podcast. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEIjPA6Xk4

Next was an important talk by Manasa Gopal on how entrepreneurship is related to a significant increase in outcomes such as bankruptcy and loan defaults for entrepreneurs (😬) at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC43ovZc6N0

Next was an excellent talk by Karen Adolph on how babies and toddlers learn to walk (including some classic footage from Deb Roy!) at the Michigan AI Laboratory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz4a_BXPCE0&t=4s

Next was a great talk by Viola Salvestrini on early exposure to entrepreneurship and the creation of female entrepreneurs at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39FNnlhmGQ&t=7s

Next was a nice panel on building AI models with African data at TechCabal with Zain Verjee, Megan Yates, and Clinton Oduor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC0cx4kua3c

Next was an intriguing talk by Damian Borth on learning representations of populations of neural networks at the Michigan AI Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfFGBvm5bF0

Next was an interesting talk by Abhishek Nagaraj on investigating the "streetlight effect" in data-driven exploration at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-te7vrqkI

Next was a compelling talk by Star Grieser, Jeffrey Shaul, and Tim Riker at Brown University on co-designing accountable AI with the deaf community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB8ZstOBBfQ

Last was a great talk by Rebecca Willett on methods to guarantee model stability (sensitivity to training data changes) bounds using bagging at The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuAPMjhDJTs