Episode description

Our next guest is a hardware engineer building the future of biometric security.

Vince Gaydarzhiev is the founder of the US-Bulgarian company Alcatraz AI. The hardware-as-a-service startup offers autonomous access control that uses facial biometrics, 3D sensing, and AI.

Among the customers of Alcatraz AI are Fortune 500 companies, including telecoms and government-owned banks.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Vince worked as an engineer for high-profile companies like Apple and Nvidia.

He holds several engineering degrees from Stanford and the universities of Southern California and Florida.

In his conversation with Irina, Vince talks about

🔐 The complexity of innovating the security industry;

💸 The hardships of fundraising for a hardware-as-a-service company;

👔 Why stepping down as a CEO was one of his best business decisions;