Madison Hawkinson

Costanoa Ventures, Investor

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Career Highlights

• Deploying Zero-to-One ML models at an e-commerce startup that created $100ms in value

• Being a leader in the field of data science and AI and inspiring others to build in this space

• Supporting women in AI

• Optimizing the Facebook ad auction with measured $100ms in value

Failures

• Not recognizing how critical data expectation setting was early on in my career

• Not investing enough in very long-term relationships

Current Focus

• Enabling the application of AI at scale through better tools and products

Hobbies

Run a wine label, Supporting women professionally, Surfing, Skiing, Horseback riding

Talk to me about

• AI, LLMs, generative AI, ML tooling, data science

• Managing data teams & people management in engineering and AI
  Data-driven decisions

• Technical leadership

• Investing, venture capital, early stage

  venture capital

• Fund management and operations

I want to talk to you about

• Career growth

• Board advisory

• LP relationships

• Fund management