SGM Meeting #1

SGM Meeting #1

Date -- January 25

Meeting Outline

1. Introductions
2. Assignments (?)

• Specifically, we can talk about scheduling meetings with Simon (2/1 and 2/9)

3. Initial Ideas + Needfinding

• O'Brien -- Agriculture
• Pondoc -- MLOps
• Travis -- AI Teacher/Agent
• Guman -- Supply Chain

4. Next Steps

Questions to Ask

• Best way to find people in "non-sexy" industries (i.e., agriculture, supply chain)? Probably just doing things that don't scale?
• If unable to chat with direct folks in time -- how to treat signals from other investors, from other founders/companies in the space, etc.?

Meeting Notes

• Notes on Assignments
  • Set up an initial meeting with investors
  • Using the issues well -- mainly use it for the entire team
• Profile of each Team Member
  • Can leverage something we're familiar with
• Evan's thoughts on ideas
  • Agriculture
    • Crop rotation
    • Data management -- unifying in a single platform
    • Crop monitoring
    • Q: Who are the customers? Smaller farmers? Larger farmers?
    • Why does someone need this? Why do they need is?
    • Segmentation -- conglomerate farms vs. vineyards, etc.
  • AI Tutors
    • Travis: less enthused after convo with Ben
  • Supply Chain
    • Not being able to predict customer demand
    • Unified framework for finding supplies
  • MLOps/LLMOps
    • Synthetic data -- easier data cleaning

Next Steps

• Make a Google Drive folder and add the teaching team