JUDGES: KIM PATEL, DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CORPORATE STRATEGY, VICE MEDIA (UNDER 30 CLASS OF 2019).MELISSA BELL, COFOUNDER, VOX; DON LEMON, ANCHOR, CNN; HERNAN LOPEZ, FOUNDER, WONDERY;KEVIN GUO WEARS AN L.B.M. DOUBLE-BREASTED DENIM JACKET AND AN ISAIA BLACK CASHMERE TURTLENECK SHIRT.MEDIA
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COFOUNDER, HIVE AITo keep off ensive images off their sites, companies
like Facebook, Google and Twitter spend billions to
hire tens of thousands of low-paid workers to censor
foul or illegal content. It’s a tedious and taxing gig.
“Humans shouldn’t do that job,” says Hive AI CEO
Kevin Guo. “We’ve built solutions that can get rid of
up to 99% of that work.” Hive, which Guo founded in
2013 with CTO Dmitriy Karpman, makes software to
tag and fl ag millions of images and videos across so-
cial media and the Web. Guo is secretive about his
U.S. clients, but Yubo, a French social video platform
for teens, uses Hive to keep nasty content from its
20 million users. Hive has uses beyond screening. It
can also search for images of celebrities, brands and
products across millions of sources, giving compa-
nies analytics about where, when and how their
assets are seen. Founders Fund, General
Catalyst, 8VC and others have invested
more than $50 million. Guo’s next
feature: audio detection.
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