Francois Arbour

It's the first time I tell this story. ProductHunt felt like the right place. I'll tell you why later. In 2016, I co-founded Element AI. In 2017 we raised $100M. It went weird. Peak Zeitgeist We hit peak zeitgeist. AI was super hot. Many investors believed that early AI would be a talent game. Montreal where Element AI was headquartered was seen as one of the largest untapped beds of AI talent. In the months between December 2016 (our seed) and June 2017 (our Series A), we had executed super well on the talent game. We had signed a lot of big logos who wanted to undergo an AI transformation