Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Prateek Joshi
Decentralized Data Foundry for AI | Rowan Stone, CEO of Sapien
38 minutes Posted Jun 4, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Rowan Stone is the CEO of Sapien, a decentralized data foundry where AI models can access verified human expertise worldwide. They've raised raised a $10.5M round led by Variant. He's also the co-creator of Coinbase's layer 2 network called Base. Rowan's favorite book: Outlive (Author: Peter Attia)
Introduction
The Flaws in Centralized Data Models
Mechanism of Knowledge Transfer and Expert Incentives
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Rowan Stone is the CEO of Sapien, a decentralized data foundry where AI models can access verified human expertise worldwide. They've raised raised a $10.5M round led by Variant. He's also the co-creator of Coinbase's layer 2 network called Base. Rowan's favorite book: Outlive (Author: Peter Attia) (00:01) Introduction (01:09) The Flaws in Centralized Data Models (04:10) Mechanism of Knowledge Transfer and Expert Incentives (07:08) Supply, Demand, and Market Dynamics for Training Data (10:2...