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322: How AI is Revolutionizing Finance and Decision-Making: Insights from wunderkind George Sivulka, Hebbia CEO

• Dan Turchin • Season 6 • Episode 322

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George Sivulka, hailed as a wunderkind by Peter Thiel, is the founder of Hebbia, a groundbreaking AI company revolutionizing financial research. Having worked at NASA as a teenager, he later earned a math degree from Stanford in just 2.5 years. George has secured $130M in funding for Hebbia at a $700M valuation, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and Thiel himself. Hebbia’s AI platform, trusted by firms like Centerview Partners and Charlesbank, has driven a 15x revenue growth in 18 months by pioneering RAG techniques that ensure LLM outputs remain within company-sanctioned data.

In this conversation, we discuss:

  • How Hebbia is reshaping financial research with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • The leap from academia to entrepreneurship—how George Sivulka turned research into real-world impact.
  • The expanding role of AI in high-stakes industries where precision is critical.
  • The ethical challenges of AI and how transparency can make or break trust.
  • Why AI agents will change knowledge work—but not in the way you might think.
  • The future of AI-powered research and its impact on decision-making.

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