1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 What are the odds that 4 friends can start a VC firm, and still be firing on all cylinders years later?&amp;nbsp; Hadley Harris, one of Eniac Ventures’ 4 co-founders has the answer. Before co-founding Eniac, Hadley was as a developer and engineering team lead at Pegasystems, and later took on roles as a product manager at Microsoft and strategist at Samsung. His time at Microsoft and Samsung taught Hadley one thing:&amp;nbsp; Big companies were not for him. So, Hadley joined a couple of talented AI founders out of MIT at Vlingo where he ran a several aspects of the business across product, strategy, and marketing until it was sold to Nuance for $225M. He rolled his experience building a successful startup into Thumb, where as CBO he helped the real-time recommendation app reach user engagement levels second only to Facebook before being acquired. In this episode we discuss how he co-founded and built Eniac, and what he is seeing when it comes to the recently hot trend of investing in Artificial intelligence.&amp;nbsp; Last, but not least, we discuss how to pronounce “Eniac”. Hadley on X Eniac on X Eniac Ventures 8-Bit Capital Something Ventured &amp;nbsp; Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast http://somethingventured.us <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/28049292/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/160984362