🦾Jepson Taylor

I build stuff that doesn’t exist, an AI explorer. 
Unfortunately I have too many connections so please follow me instead. 

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कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता (hindi)
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I watch the watchers, I direct the learners. 

I am passionate about machine learning. My life's mission is to further the boundaries of what is possible with data science. I spend as much time as I can working with deep learning, NLP, and all forms of data science. I currently have a passion project I am managing where I am combining the power of genetic programming with deep learning to automate network design. I think there is a trend happening in data science where human expertise and creativity are being replaced by powerful new methods (i.e. deep learning, big data). 

I am most well known for my machine learning work with the data science community and with HireVue. With the community, I enjoy posting opinions on jobs and tutorials on ML methods. I also enjoy speaking and presenting to all types of audiences. 

I've enjoyed working across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success. This wider POV has helped shape the way I think about innovation, from the innovation farm to the customer's table ;)

CEO/founder VEOX

VEOX Inc is revolutionizing the AI industry by creating an AI-driven algorithm factory, compressing decades of progress into moments. Our technology automates AI science research, continuously improving algorithm efficiency and outperforming human-made algorithms. VEOX is not just building another AI company; we're catalyzing an explosion of technological advancements that will reshape the entire tech landscape. Join us in accelerating intelligence beyond human limits and leading the next wave of AI breakthroughs.

Jepson Taylor

We canceled our team’s Cursor account today. Strange considering I was so smitten by it. 🌹🥀Like a high school fling, onto the next babe. Oh, and I was top 3% globally as a user in 2025 at 22B tokens of code. Should have been on their customer advisory board maybe. AMA

CEO/founder VEOX Inc | Fasted Ultra Runner | Contributing Faculty AIMasterClass NYU | Keynote Speaker | former child

Some of the smartest people I've met in my life are... incredibly stupid. They can't read the room, they don't know how to talk to executives, they lack emotional intelligence and self-awareness. I used to always think intelligence was one-dimensional, I really cared about where I thought I was on this scale, now I see it as being ∞-dimensions. Sure, there are some standard tests we can use on humans to determine their ability to problem solve or do various coding challenges, but those tests are narrow. 

I like to say everyone is a genius, when it comes to their life experience. If you're patient enough to listen every human can teach you a lesson. I also muse with the possibility of the village idiot becoming the new savant thanks to AI. Ultimately, where we are headed the future 'genius' is unknown, and humans are not equipped to access them. Longer term, AI will be the only judge of what actually matters when it comes to human super-competency. I like this, because it tears up the standard resume. It means that someone with a PhD in neuroscience might actually be less competitive than the ambitious Uber driver in Dallas from Uganda who just needs to be enabled with a new 🥕 .

Dear r/LinkedLunatics,
I love that I live rent free in the minds of so many members of your community. I love knowing none of you will ever be able to run as far as I do in the mountains, invent at the pace that I'm capable of, or live life as a ridiculous outlier as I do. Every time I show up in your community, I take joy knowing that you are festering with my existence. Looking forward to many more posts where you feel compelled to engage and what I say/do bounces around in your simple keyboard troll minds. 

For those that don't know this community, they became famous when one of their members was caught commenting on the appearance of women on this platform. Degrading them, sexualizing them, only to be caught by accidentally sharing a screenshot that gave away their true identity. So when I think of this community, I think of a group of wanna-be ass grabbers, who have nothing better to do than tear down those that do.

Spam trick, add an Emoji to your name on LinkedIn, then make an email filter to never see your emoji in an email.

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I'm at the SLC airport, working, getting ready to head to Dubai. 
My 17th trip in 4 years.  If any of you are in the region I'll be speaking at:
http://aifest.ae/

For AI/business leaders, schedule permitting (filling up my calendar now), happy to come and speak to your engineering teams about what I've learn over the last year consuming ~25B tokens for coding agents. The pitfalls, the miracles, best practices, ideas gone wrong, ideas gone right... really right, all of it. And.. happy to show you examples of code that your humans will never be capable of writing, and explain why. #superhumancode

AMA

People who do high volume coding with AI often complain about 'fallbacks', where agents will catch exceptions and quickly patch with a moronic fallback. This can be back up libraries, dummy models, and even synthetic data... beyond stupid. You might get mad at AI, but... 

It makes you wonder? Was it trained with some of the worst human Q/A engineers in the world? My test isn't passing... there we go. This isn't installing... fixed. I can't find this dataset... this will do. Imagining the Q/A engineer that would behave this way makes you wonder, do they exist? If they do, I bet it’s the same people who leave dog poop in plastic bags on walking trails. 

Or is AI just making up some of the most terrible fallback short cuts to satisfy bugs? I've seen this bad behavior in all LLM providers.

Words can't describe how much I love the work I do. I can't type fast enough, I can't ask fast enough. I often will have 4-5 parallel threads of work that I'm managing, if only my brain could handle more. In the future as agents level up, it will. Working in the field I work in, with the technology vertical we are chasing is like waking up for Christmas daily. To review algorithms, and insights that I would never be able to produce on my own regardless the time, pressure, or budgets, is inspiring. 

Once when I was giving a talk to college students (I like giving talks to college kids, taught in a box, ready to break out, brains are like playdough). I think it was Berkley or Harvard, can't remember. I told them.

"When you do a startup, I hope you do, you need to find an idea that is so big you're willing to fail"

"What do I mean by fail? You need to be willing to foreclose on your home, have your cars reposed, max out every card you can get access to. Worry about your banking card clearing when you're buying gas and food. Where you need to awkwardly beg your friends and family for favors and emergency loans."

The college kids faces... eyes wide... 

Then I went back to the idea. If you aren't willing to endure that, then the idea wasn't big enough. I'm not talking about big enough for your professor! Your friends! Your parents! For YOU! Too often people want validation on their ideas, the best founders I know needed none. They were determined to chase the heroes journey despite head winds from their tribe. Parents and friends telling them they were stupid, and should get a real job. Find that idea big enough for you, the idea burning a hole in your head. The idea that is beyond passion, beyond obsession, entering the realm of purpose. 

For me, I have that idea, and couldn't be happier.

For all my 'fast typers' out there in Antigravity, Cursor, Claude, Chrome, etc... who are on Macs. I'm sure you have accidentally in your typing storm pressed Command+Q and closed your application. Very upsetting, well... you can change that close command on all your applications to Command + Option + Q (or any custom command). Now? Type faster!

Flights, time to think when the internet sucks. Qatar Airways was a dream my last trip with Starlink 100-150mbs down the entire time with great latency. I felt like I was (nearly) home in my office. Emirates.. gave the 2014 feeling with Onair 10-12mbs down experience with constant outages. I'm surprised more airlines don't get with the times, especially with those of us that work 24/7. In the future I'm going to call ahead to check if the plane I'm committed to has Starlink or not. 

During my thinking time, I was thinking more about the vast majority of the world is not ready for AI and will never be. You have toe dippers, and you have sprinters. The sprinters are leveling up every day, moving past 10x engineers and into territories that feel mythical. All of the 'vibe coding' nightmares are getting fixed, the wack-a-mole game is being won. Every problem found has a solution. Also, new technologies keep showing up that provide huge strides forward. 

I think a year from now, the toe-dipper engineers will be cave men compare to aliens. Are you a cave man? Or are you becoming an alien? What is your favorite tool/trick that makes you feel like you have more control over the chaos?

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Uncovering new insights and ideas for growing Siemens SaaS Xcelerator by developing new programs of intention of driving expansion via Product-Led.

Growth Strategist

Berkeley SkyDeck

Companies Advised:
Guepard, T-Robotics, Cerevox, Ozaru, Oddz, Bonding Health

UC Berkeley's official startup accelerator. We help Cal entrepreneurs and transformational startups with over $1.8bn funded. 

With Pitchbook ranking Berkeley alumni second to Stanford in producing venture capital-backed entrepreneurs, SkyDeck has become a top university incubator within the United States.

Located on top of the tallest building in downtown Berkeley, we combine the consulting know-how of traditional accelerators with the vast resources of our research university. This robust partnership is coupled with SkyDeck’s unique mentorship program to create a powerful environment for your startup.

Key Advisor

Braid Theory

Braid theory weaves together entrepreneurs, industry influencers, and corporate partners to accelerate adoption of transformative technology, drive market growth and create profitable collaborations.

Industry segments include:
Transportation and Goods Movement, Marine/Maritime, Agriculture and Biotech, Construction, Advanced, and Specialist Manufacturing, and Aerospace.

Mentoring/Advising Responsibilities:
●	Market Segmentation/ Research
●	Product Differentiation
●	Customer Discovery
●	Customer Journey/Workflow
●	Pitch Deck/ Value Prop formation
●	Channels to Market – Sales & Marketing Alignment
●	Pricing Strategies
●	Partnerships
●	Go to Market Strategies
●	Cap Table Formation
●	Valuations

Strategic Advisor

Booz Allen Hamilton

Strategic Innovation Group - Artificial Intelligence

Advising Booz Allen with their homegrown Modelops platform provides the foundation to achieve business value with AI.

It was a solution combines machine learning operations, multi-tenant cloud, governance and explainability, and an open AI/ML algorithm and model marketplace into a single offering.

Executive Advisor

Zealr

Discovered a sales activity process problem that needed to be solved. Zealr helped individual sales reps with time ingesting relevant messages from social media, text and email into CRM. In turn, we used our NLP algorithms to help sales with higher levels of engagement.

Co-Founder

TIBCO Software Inc.

Spotfire is a self-service data visualization, business intelligence, and predictive analytics solution that allows business users to analyze large amounts of data in a unique way to spot data trends and patterns. 

(Reason for leaving: Vista Equity Partners purchased TIBCO off of the NASDAQ in 12/2014. One month later, the whole Spotfire Team was let go)

Senior Sales Account Executive

Capsilon

Capsilon provides cloud-based document sharing, imaging and collaboration solutions for mortgage banking. Capsilon uses data and AI to automate manual tasks and enable faster decision-making within the loan process. 

(Reason for leaving:  Capsilon was an considered to be a “startup” with considerable growing challenges, and lack of funding.)

Sr. Account Sales Executive

Direct Sales at Autonomy who was acquired by HP. Focus is on assisting companies transform their businesses through process automation of unstructured data via meaning-based computing. 

(Reason for leaving: Due to the well-documented toxic HP acquisition, Autonomy was in a middle of an executive turmoil that permeated to into their solution offerings.  As a result, and despite my immediate success, I made a calculated decision to leave for a “White Hot” Mortgage FinTech startup)

Senior Account Executive

Strategic sales leader was responsible for understanding the client's business/IT requirements and uncovering new opportunities through competitive displacement. Identify opportunities for strategic solutions and help the client understand the business value of an IBM Software Solution in addressing their needs. Responsible for selling what is now considered to be Watson: Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management, Context Analytics, Master Data Management in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii.
         

Achievements: 
• Sold over $12.8M of software
• Attained or overachieved quotas that ranged from $1 million to $4.2 million per year
• Develop / Maintain IBM’s sales and marketing methodology for assigned territory to sell industry-focused Big Data and Analytics solutions.
• Created the first “Jump Start Quarterly Business Review Method” to help build and drive strategy with Business Development and Marketing to create opportunities in enterprise account base.
• IBM still uses my “Jump Start” QBR as Best Practices.
• Develop and maintain multi-million dollar - opportunity pipeline that drives sales activities, ensuring that revenue goals are exceeded.
• Disciplined and accurate reporting of opportunity pipeline and sales activities into a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis.
• Top accounts maintained: City National Bank, Dole Foods, Herbalife, PIMCO, Discount Tire, Harrah’s, Wescom, Ingram Micro, Mercury Insurance, US Foods.
• Directly competed against Autonomy, EMC, Oracle, OpenText, Microsoft, Google, Box.com

Software Sales Executive

Toshiba

Sales executive managing major accounts in California. Continually at the top of my sales division by closing large enterprise deals

Enterprise Account Manager

At Siemens Digital Industries Software, we leverage insightful growth models and implement strategies that drive SaaS Xcelerator expansion, underpinned by my competencies in new business development and customer engagement. Collaborating with teams, we uncover new paths for product-led growth, ensuring our strategies align with real-time market signals and customer needs.

My role as a Key Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck further enriches our startup ecosystem, where we nurture transformative startups, guiding them through market segmentation, product differentiation, and strategic partnerships. My approach blends creativity with disciplined problem-solving, focusing on empowering founders and accelerating industry innovation.

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