21 Oct 2026 07:00
Ep. 420 ICYMI - Why Your Structured Data Is Stuck — and How Graph Neural Networks Unlock It, with Jure Leskovec, Stanford Professor and Co-Founder of Kumo
Since this aired, Kumo has moved from GNNs to relational foundation models — the ‘secret sauce’ segment at 17:57 is where that story startsData’s everywhere, but so often it feels… stuck. Joining us today is Jure Leskovec, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Kumo and a Stanford Professor who pioneered Graph Neural Networks and fundamentally reshaped how we understand networks — from Pinterest’s recommendations to tracking the spread of disease. We unpack why structured data is lagging behind the AI revolution, how techniques like Graph Neural Networks are finally unlocking its potential, and how this all plays out in real-world applications.
- 00:57 Meet Jure Leskovec
- 02:31 Knowing When to Move On
- 04:01 Academia versus Industry
- 07:30 Learnings from Pinterest
- 10:28 The Kumo Pitch
- 17:57 The Secret Sauce
- 25:51 Monetization
- 27:12 Only the Enterprise?
- 29:49 The Sandbox to Try Before Buy
- 31:42 The Best Use Cases
- 35:00 Summarizing
- 37:38 Predicting AI
- 40:15 What’s True and No One Agrees
- 41:19 Learning
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leskovec/ Website: https://kumo.ai/
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