Gene is a software veteran and tech executive known for his expertise in mobile, social, cloud, Big Data, Search Marketing and eCommerce. He is most recently CTO of Flosports and has been head of engineering at P.volve, Beachbody, Sellbrite, Synctree and Oversee.   Before that he was Director of Engineering at Chegg,  Executive Director of AT&T Interactive and Director of Engineering at Yahoo Search Marketing/Overture where he built large-scale search marketing platforms.  Gene is a LP at Hyphen Capital investing in AAPI founders, mentor for Mucker Capital and founder of CTO Slackers, a global community of over 1300 tech leaders. Gene was coach of First Lego League, San Marino Safety Commission Board, and volunteer in SMUSD School PTA.  He graduated Magna cum Laude with a B.S. in Biochemistry from UCLA, where he met his wife, and lives in San Marino with 3 kids.

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Everything I Need to Know About LLM, I Learned From A Pasadena Search Company 24 Years Ago

I worked at GoTo.com/Overture/Yahoo in Pasadena 24 years ago, we were doing Big Data when it was called just data.  Information Retrieval used all the sexy ML/LLM/AI concepts you hear about now.  I'll discuss the parallels and extrapolate on what's next for LLM, based on what happened with Search.

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