Brian LENT 

/ AI Pioneer

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Brian Lent is one of the earliest pioneers of the modern AI era, a technical luminary whose career began at the genesis of the internet itself. While pursuing his Ph.D. at Stanford, he worked with a legendary group of computer science students—including Larry Page and Sergey Brin—at a research lab that would one day incubate the Google search engine. This formative experience gave him a front-row seat to some of the greatest technical challenges of the era, and a deep understanding of how to build new data-driven systems from the ground up. 

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This unique perspective propelled him to leadership roles at some of the world's most innovative companies. At Amazon, he built the company's first predictive analytics platform and data science team, creating the recommendation system that would become the foundation of e-commerce and would ultimately drive 30%+ of Amazon.com’s revenues. He has since founded four innovative AI and data-driven companies, applying his deep technical expertise to solve some of the world's most complex problems, from next-generation credit scoring to a highly-complex AI to power Level 5 full autonomous driving, and real estate analytics.

 

At Plunk, he built "the Bloomberg for Residential Real Estate"—a generative AI-driven analytics platform to value residential real estate like a stock, in real-time. At Medio Systems, he built the first mobile cloud analytics platform that supported over 440 million consumers in more than 100 countries before its acquisition by Nokia. His work has consistently been at the vanguard, pushing the boundaries of what is possible with machine learning and advanced analytics for more than 35 years. 

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Brian joins VQ with a singular purpose: to leverage his decades of experience to help family offices invest in paradigm-changing organizations that solve industry challenges at a different level of scale. He sees the future of generational wealth not just in capital investing, but in leveraging the promise of AI across the entire value chain. As a true visionary, he is focused on empowering entrepreneurs to envision what is possible, and to build the next generation of AI-enabled companies that will define the future.