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No Priors Ep. 22 | With Instacart CEO Fidji Simo

Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, shares her personal journey from growing up in France, to leading the Facebook app, to becoming a wartime CEO. Fidji talks about the future of Instacart, their AI strategy, how the current era of AI is different from prior ML waves, and the impact of LLMs in commerce, robotics and healthcare. She also shares how she earns followership from her teams. ** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** 00:00 - Leading With Impact and Authenticity 11:48 - Implementing AI 17:28 - Future of Grocery Shopping With AI 25:38 - AI in Advertising and Commerce 32:54 - Metrodora: AI in Biotech and Healthcare 34:18 - The positive impact of AI, mitigating harm & role of regulations

Sarah GuohostFidji SimoguestElad Gilhost
Jun 22, 202339mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released
June 22, 2023
Duration
39m
Channel
No Priors
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, shares her personal journey from growing up in France, to leading the Facebook app, to becoming a wartime CEO. Fidji talks about the future of Instacart, their AI strategy, how the current era of AI is different from prior ML waves, and the impact of LLMs in commerce, robotics and healthcare. She also shares how she earns followership from her teams. ** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** 00:00 - Leading With Impact and Authenticity 11:48 - Implementing AI 17:28 - Future of Grocery Shopping With AI 25:38 - AI in Advertising and Commerce 32:54 - Metrodora: AI in Biotech and Healthcare 34:18 - The positive impact of AI, mitigating harm & role of regulations

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  • Sarah Guo

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  • Fidji Simo

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  • Elad Gil

    host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Sarah Guo and Fidji Simo, No Priors Ep. 22 | With Instacart CEO Fidji Simo explores instacart’s CEO on AI-Native Commerce, Leadership, and Curing Chronic Illness Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart and co-founder of the Metrodora Institute, discusses her mission-driven career from eBay to Facebook to Instacart, and how authenticity underpins her leadership style.

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