BANK ON IT

Welcome to our second remote interview produced using the ListenDeck audio production system.  This is an episode where the show host John Siracusa and his guest Naftali Harris recorded in two different locations yet sound like they’re in the same room.      You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio.   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Naftali Harris, co-founder and CEO of Sentilink.  SentiLink, is a technology company that helps detect and block synthetic identities.  Sentilink is backed by a16z, Nyca partners, Zach Perret from Plaid and Max Levchin one of the founders of Paypal.  In the past Naftali managed the data science team at Affirm, built tweet topic models at Twitter, and set up predictive modeling competitions at Kaggle.  In this episode Naftali describes how the co-founders meet and the influence in his career through successful entrepreneurs he’s met or worked with suc