Playing the Long Game in Business

Jay Bartot is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zeitworks, an AI-powered business process intelligence platform that provides enterprises with the data-driven insights and tools they need to continuously improve and transform their business process operations.

Jay is a serial technology entrepreneur and innovator with 20+ years of experience developing data and machine learning applications for a variety of verticals such as e-commerce, online advertising, travel, medical informatics and consumer video creation.

As a Co-Founder and CTO, Jay has built technology teams, innovative analytics, machine learning platforms and products for startups like; Vhoto, Medify, Farecast and AdRelevance. These startups led to acquisitions from Hulu, Alliance Health Networks, Microsoft and Nielsen/NetRatings, where he played senior technology roles.

Prior to Zeitworks, Jay was CTO and Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs, where he helped create and incubate nearly a dozen exceptional startups. He provided support and expertise across a number of different areas of startup creation, including; ideation, customer discovery and validation, data collection design and procurement, product development, machine learning solution design, technical vision, story and pitch deck development, technical leadership, and team recruitment.

Jay attended the University of Iowa where he studied Music, Anthropology & Computer Science.

What you will learn

  • Jay tells us about the slow evolutionary process of his entrepreneurial journey
  • Jay shares the challenges faced by his startup and how he persevered through them
  • Discover why timing is everything when it comes to being an entrepreneur
  • Find out more about the inspiration behind Zeitworks
  • Learn how to get your first pilot customers for your startup
  • Discover the common mistakes almost every startup makes
  • Learn why it's so important to play the long game in business
  • Find out what brings Jay the most joy and fulfilment as an entrepreneur
  • Plus loads more!

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