Ron Croen, Founding CEO of Nuance and Partner at You and Mr. Jones Brandtech Ventures - Voicebot Podcast Ep 94

Ron Croen was the founding CEO of Nuance who worked with three
researchers at SRI to launch the company in 1994. Nuance went
public in 2000 and merged with Scansoft a few years later. Today
Nuance's market cap is just under $5 billion and for about a
decade the company was THE voice company worldwide. Ron had a
front row seat to many formative developments and events in the
early days of voice technology. Amazon Echo truly impressed him
when it came out in 2014 because it broke many tenets of industry
conventional wisdom. He is now a partner at You and Mr. Jones
Brandtech Ventures where he is looking at investing in voice once
again but even is more enthusiastic about virtual humans. Welcome
to the longest Voicebot Podcast to date. If you want to learn a
lot about the early days of voice technology and what it tells us
about where we are today, Ron is a great tour guide.